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VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 can't find my third HDD!
Ever since last night, I noticed my computer's ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
motherboard (1007 firmware -- latest non-beta release) does not boot up properly anymore last night and today. When my computer boots up, I see (nice typos and spacing problems in it too :P): VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 Scan Devices,Please wait... HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!! The Bios does not be installed. Press g to continue! After I G to continue, I am my Grub loader (Windows XP Pro. SP2 with all updates and Linux) for OS options (at least I know this part works). When I go to Windows, I get a black screen and hangs. If I go to safe mode, it gets stuck at agp440.sys part. I did notice I have to wait about five whole minutes for this part to time out before I see XP's splash screen. Obviously in Windows, I don't have my Seagate HDD (H: and I: drives). I have no fancy RAID setup, I think my friend set this VIA VT8237 SATA RAID up for the third Seagate IDE 120 GB HDD. My friend set up the hardware so I think he used this VIA controller to access it back in 2005. He could never get the Promise controller to work so he used this one. Other drives are like according to CMOS/BIOS: Primary Master: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M612 X806, Ultra DMA-2 Primary Slave: Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A 1.0 Secondary Master: Quantum FireballP LM15 A35.0700, Ultra DMA-4, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Secondary Slave: IC3L040AVER07-0 ER40A5A, Ultra DMA-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Note my old IDE/ATA setup. I also noticed that in Windows, I don't have any sounds from my Audigy 2 ZS! Device Manager shows no problems. My detailed computer specifications can be found at http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt (primary/gaming system). I tried disabling SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility so I can get into Windows faster (not wait for that 5 minutes black screen), but it didn't help. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Try disconnecting the disk drives from the Southbridge, and see if the BIOS screen report changes. It could be that one of your storage devices is holding a signal on the cable down, and preventing the scan of what is on the cable. You could try removing one device at a time, or just remove the whole works and add them back one at a time until it fails again. If the error message remains, when no storage device is connected to the motherboard, then it could be the motherboard that is bad. Thanks Paul. I will investigate later since I am at work at the moment. -- "You're kissing an ant hill." --Mike Nelson /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail. ( ) |
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VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 can't find my third HDD!
Hello,
Ever since last night, I noticed my computer's ASUS K8V SE Deluxe motherboard (1007 firmware -- latest non-beta release) does not boot up properly anymore last night and today. When my computer boots up, I see (nice typos and spacing problems in it too :P): VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 Scan Devices,Please wait... HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!! The Bios does not be installed. Press g to continue! After I G to continue, I am my Grub loader (Windows XP Pro. SP2 with all updates and Linux) for OS options (at least I know this part works). When I go to Windows, I get a black screen and hangs. If I go to safe mode, it gets stuck at agp440.sys part. I did notice I have to wait about five whole minutes for this part to time out before I see XP's splash screen. Obviously in Windows, I don't have my Seagate HDD (H: and I: drives). I have no fancy RAID setup, I think my friend set this VIA VT8237 SATA RAID up for the third Seagate IDE 120 GB HDD. My friend set up the hardware so I think he used this VIA controller to access it back in 2005. He could never get the Promise controller to work so he used this one. Other drives are like according to CMOS/BIOS: Primary Master: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M612 X806, Ultra DMA-2 Primary Slave: Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A 1.0 Secondary Master: Quantum FireballP LM15 A35.0700, Ultra DMA-4, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Secondary Slave: IC3L040AVER07-0 ER40A5A, Ultra DMA-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Note my old IDE/ATA setup. I also noticed that in Windows, I don't have any sounds from my Audigy 2 ZS! Device Manager shows no problems. My detailed computer specifications can be found at http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt (primary/gaming system). I tried disabling SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility so I can get into Windows faster (not wait for that 5 minutes black screen), but it didn't help. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Try disconnecting the disk drives from the Southbridge, and see if the BIOS screen report changes. It could be that one of your storage devices is holding a signal on the cable down, and preventing the scan of what is on the cable. You could try removing one device at a time, or just remove the whole works and add them back one at a time until it fails again. If the error message remains, when no storage device is connected to the motherboard, then it could be the motherboard that is bad. Is it possible that IRQ was changed? Someone told me that having lots of hardware devices can cause IRQ conflicts. -- "You're kissing an ant hill." --Mike Nelson /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail. ( ) |
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VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 can't find my third HDD!
wrote:
Hello, Ever since last night, I noticed my computer's ASUS K8V SE Deluxe motherboard (1007 firmware -- latest non-beta release) does not boot up properly anymore last night and today. When my computer boots up, I see (nice typos and spacing problems in it too :P): VIA VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility V4.80 Scan Devices,Please wait... HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!! The Bios does not be installed. Press g to continue! After I G to continue, I am my Grub loader (Windows XP Pro. SP2 with all updates and Linux) for OS options (at least I know this part works). When I go to Windows, I get a black screen and hangs. If I go to safe mode, it gets stuck at agp440.sys part. I did notice I have to wait about five whole minutes for this part to time out before I see XP's splash screen. Obviously in Windows, I don't have my Seagate HDD (H: and I: drives). I have no fancy RAID setup, I think my friend set this VIA VT8237 SATA RAID up for the third Seagate IDE 120 GB HDD. My friend set up the hardware so I think he used this VIA controller to access it back in 2005. He could never get the Promise controller to work so he used this one. Other drives are like according to CMOS/BIOS: Primary Master: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M612 X806, Ultra DMA-2 Primary Slave: Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A 1.0 Secondary Master: Quantum FireballP LM15 A35.0700, Ultra DMA-4, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Secondary Slave: IC3L040AVER07-0 ER40A5A, Ultra DMA-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK. Note my old IDE/ATA setup. I also noticed that in Windows, I don't have any sounds from my Audigy 2 ZS! Device Manager shows no problems. My detailed computer specifications can be found at http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt (primary/gaming system). I tried disabling SATA RAID BIOS Setting Utility so I can get into Windows faster (not wait for that 5 minutes black screen), but it didn't help. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Try disconnecting the disk drives from the Southbridge, and see if the BIOS screen report changes. It could be that one of your storage devices is holding a signal on the cable down, and preventing the scan of what is on the cable. You could try removing one device at a time, or just remove the whole works and add them back one at a time until it fails again. If the error message remains, when no storage device is connected to the motherboard, then it could be the motherboard that is bad. Is it possible that IRQ was changed? Shouldnt have changed spontaneously. Someone told me that having lots of hardware devices can cause IRQ conflicts. Yes, there are only a limited number of IRQ so they have to be shared with lots of hardware devices. Sharing usually works fine tho. |
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