a7a no boot.

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James

Currently, I have an Asus A7A 266 motherboard. I am running an Athlon
XP2200 processor. 512 meg of Corsair PC133 memory (2 256 dimms). A 120
GB Western DIgital hard drive, an 8GB maxtor hard drive, an adaptec
aha2930 SCSI controller, plextor CD and CDR and a SCSI Zip drive.
ALso and ATAPI CDROM made by Acer. The video card is an MSI GeForce2.
NIC is a 3Com 3c905b-TX/m. The computer was working flawlessly, until
I upgraded to the new mobo. The PS is a high quality 450 watt Sparkle
power supply.

I have Windows 2000 Professional, and Suse Linux 7.3 installed.

The system will not boot up to an OS. I Get POST, everything detects
just fine, and I Can boot to a floppy, and my suse 7.3 and Win2k discs
will load to setup.

However, when I Attempt to boot to the hard drive, I get one of 2
things.

Either :

Li




Or, I get this

01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 ...

When I try to install win2k, I get an error stating that the drives
are corrupt.
When I try to install Linux, I get errors installing packages.

I have checked all of the obvous things, such as connections, etc, and
I will run through the gamut of the normal things people do. (I do
tech support for a meager living)

Any ideas?

Thanks!
-James

Thanks!
 
try reflashing your bios
Click to expand...

In some casual reading in the past, the "Li" comes from LILO the
boot loader. If you are trying to use the disk as is, and add
stuff to it, you may want to Google on "LILO boot loader", to
see if it has any special requirements.

If you are starting at "ground zero", then zero the drive on another
computer, then have _only_ that disk on the cable while you try
to do a test install. WD drives like the "Cable Select" setting
sometimes, so try the drive by itself and see if it behaves.
It could be the mix of the old Maxtor and the newer WD just isn't
going to work - you never know...

The BIOS upgrade would help solve problems with disks larger
than 137GB (128GB binary). Because Asus truncated the BIOS history
list on their download page, I cannot see whether much earlier BIOS
had problems with other disk sizes than the 48bit LBA problem.

HTH,
Paul
 
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