can't boot from promise card.

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Larry

I have a hard drive I am trying to move to a Promise card,
the hard drive boots fine, when connected to the motherboard,
but when I connect it to the promise card, I get
"Invalid boot diskette", it tries to boot from the floppy.

When the drive was plugged into the IDE plug on the
motherboard, I installed the latest promise card
driver, and it showed in device managner.

There is nothing in the floppy drive,
I have checked the jumper settings,
I have checked the boot order.

When the computer boots from the promise card,
the promise boot sequence sees the hard drive, but
can't boot from it.

When I plug the hard drive into the motherboard and
boot from it. I can also see and read and write to
a second hard drive that I connect to the promise card just fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in Advance,
 
Larry said:
I have a hard drive I am trying to move to a Promise card,
the hard drive boots fine, when connected to the motherboard,
but when I connect it to the promise card, I get
"Invalid boot diskette", it tries to boot from the floppy.

When the drive was plugged into the IDE plug on the
motherboard, I installed the latest promise card
driver, and it showed in device managner.

There is nothing in the floppy drive,
I have checked the jumper settings,
I have checked the boot order.

When the computer boots from the promise card, the promise
boot sequence sees the hard drive, but can't boot from it.

When I plug the hard drive into the motherboard and boot
from it. I can also see and read and write to a second hard
drive that I connect to the promise card just fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Either a problem in the Master Boot Record that your MB bios doesn't
care about but the Promise does or a MB-BIOS/Promise-BIOS clash.
 
I found out what it was.
It was my nvram,

I unplugged the machine, removed the battery,
held the on button in for 15 seconds,
put the battery back in and then plugged it in,
and booted.

It seems that the nvram had something in it that needed to
be cleared.
 
Thanks for the washup, too rare in my opinion.

Larry said:
I found out what it was.
It was my nvram,

I unplugged the machine, removed the battery,
held the on button in for 15 seconds,
put the battery back in and then plugged it in,
and booted.

It seems that the nvram had something in it that needed to
be cleared.
 
Folkert Rienstra said:
Either a problem in the Master Boot Record that your MB bios doesn't
care about but the Promise does or a MB-BIOS/Promise-BIOS clash.

Right, so it was the latter.
 
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