I'll speculate that because the Presario 5330 is a consumer system, rather than
a business system, somebody somewhere in the halls of HPaq decided not to
implement the BIOS boot options found in higher grade systems. So using a boot
device on a 3rd party ATA133 card simply may not be possible... Ben Myers

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:02:39 -0500, Brian
wrote:

On 28 Feb 2005 19:39:52 -0800,
wrote:

Checking the obvious:

During POST, have you gone into the controller cards BIOS and set it to
bootable?


It's not obvious, because I can't find any way to get into
the controller card's BIOS! The only option I'm given is to
hit F3 if I want to set the drives into a RAID
configuration. For the moment, I'm just trying to get the
controller to work without the RAID features. Anyway, I
looked at the RAID menus, and there was nothing about
setting the card BIOS to be bootable, or anything close to
it.


In the Compaqs BIOS (depending on how custom it is) I would set the
boot order somthing like this
1) Boot other Devices
2) Boot removable devices
3) boot ATAPI CDROM
4) boot IDE Hard Drive


There are five options for the boot order, I have them set
in the following order

1) Floppy
2) Hard drive (C
3) IDE CD-ROM
4) USB
5) Ethernet

There's no entry for "other devices" or "removable devices".


If I look at the controller order, then I have that set as
follows

1) Maxtor 4D080H4
2) Samsung SV4002H
3) Integrated IDE

1) and 2) are the correctly-identified drives on the ATA/133
card, the Maxtor is the primary master, and the Samsung the
primary slave.


If I look at the device configuration menu, then the only
devices I can configure under that are the DVD-RW and the
floppy.

Finally, if I go to the advanced menu and look at the PCI
devices, the RAID card is listed, and it has sole use of
IRQ5.

Can you boot off of a cd and read the drive?

I don't have a bootable CD with the drivers for the card
loaded. I was trying to build the system when I came up
against the problem, I can't get through an installation of
the operating system, it fails at the first reboot, when the
drives on the ATA/133 have become invisible again.

If yes, look for NTLDR
and NT DETECT on the drive connected to the controller. Check the
boot.ini file and if it says mulit 0 disk 0 blah blah bla, try
changing it to mulit 3 disk 3

or what ever number works.

Yes, I know about the boot.ini file. I guess the only way I
can try this out is to put a third drive on the MB IDE,
build a system on that including the ATA/133 drivers, make a
bootable CD from there, then remove the third drive and try
booting from the CD. I'll give it a whirl and see what
happens - back in a day or so with the answer. I might also
try the card in another (non-Compaq!) PC and see whether I
get the same sort of problems.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Brian.

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