System won't boot with Abit HA66 PCI IDE card

[spodosaurus]

Hi all,

I'm planning on setting up a linux software raid system, but first I
have to find a way to get all five of my IDE hard disks running on the
same system. I have an Abit HA66 IDE card (Highpoint HPT366 chip). When
I insert this card into the Asus A7V400-MX-SE board in my linux system,
the system will POST, then the HA66 will flash up it's 'hit ctrl-H to
configure' screen, then a black screen with a flashing underscore cursor
and that's it. It does the same thing with or without drives attached.

I put it into my WinXP Home system with a Gigabyte GA-7VA board and it
worked. I even installed the drivers successfully and attached my cdrom
to it as well as flashing it to the 1.28 BIOS. HOWEVER, if I attached
the boot hard drive to it, the results would be identical to what
happens with the Asus board in my linux system: black screen with
flashing cursor.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here and how I can remedy this?

TIA,

Ari


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[Ed Medlin]

Hi all,

I'm planning on setting up a linux software raid system, but first I have
to find a way to get all five of my IDE hard disks running on the same
system. I have an Abit HA66 IDE card (Highpoint HPT366 chip). When I
insert this card into the Asus A7V400-MX-SE board in my linux system, the
system will POST, then the HA66 will flash up it's 'hit ctrl-H to
configure' screen, then a black screen with a flashing underscore cursor
and that's it. It does the same thing with or without drives attached.

I put it into my WinXP Home system with a Gigabyte GA-7VA board and it
worked. I even installed the drivers successfully and attached my cdrom to
it as well as flashing it to the 1.28 BIOS. HOWEVER, if I attached the
boot hard drive to it, the results would be identical to what happens with
the Asus board in my linux system: black screen with flashing cursor.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here and how I can remedy this?

TIA,

Ari

Before you can configure the raid, you must install all your drives. I guess
that you know that...... I have had a few problems in the past with
Highpoint controllers being DOA. Once working, they are fine. They also seem
to be a good bit slower on boot-up than some of the others. Are you waiting
long enough? Connect 4 hard drives to it (all jumpered to Master) and try,
optical drives don't work with those. You could also try another PCI slot
and make sure it is seated well. Other than that, it could be a dead
controller. Also, you have to set the boot order in the bios before it will
boot to the OS on the HPT controller. This should be done before installing
the OS, or you may get by with a repair on XP (or it might just boot up
normally).

Ed

 

[spodosaurus]

Before you can configure the raid, you must install all your drives. I guess
that you know that...... I have had a few problems in the past with
Highpoint controllers being DOA. Once working, they are fine. They also seem
to be a good bit slower on boot-up than some of the others. Are you waiting
long enough?

I've let the cursor screen flash for 5 minutes...how much longer could
that little chip take?

Connect 4 hard drives to it (all jumpered to Master) and try,
optical drives don't work with those.

The only drive I've been able to get to work with it is an optical
drive. And there are only two IDE sockets on this card, so I think I'd
have to do master/slave for four HDDs, yes?

You could also try another PCI slot
and make sure it is seated well. Other than that, it could be a dead
controller. Also, you have to set the boot order in the bios before it will
boot to the OS on the HPT controller. This should be done before installing
the OS, or you may get by with a repair on XP (or it might just boot up
normally).

Ed

--
spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[Ed Medlin]

I've let the cursor screen flash for 5 minutes...how much longer could
that little chip take?

That is plenty .......... . Shouldn't take more than 10-20 seconds. I am
thinking that you may have a bad controller.

The only drive I've been able to get to work with it is an optical drive.
And there are only two IDE sockets on this card, so I think I'd have to do
master/slave for four HDDs, yes?

Yes. Some had 4. I haven't ever been able to get a optical drive to work
with those......ur lucky... Did it acutally work after boot, or just get
recognized?

Ed

 

[spodosaurus]

That is plenty .......... . Shouldn't take more than 10-20 seconds. I am
thinking that you may have a bad controller.





Yes. Some had 4. I haven't ever been able to get a optical drive to work
with those......ur lucky... Did it acutally work after boot, or just get
recognized?

Ed

I played "warcraft III: the frozen throne" from it

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spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/