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More info?)
Ok...I will try that.
The bad drive is no longer connected. Both drives were in use before. One
on IDE 3, the other 4. I moved 4 to 3 and took the old 3 out. They are 100
gig drives. When I was unable to install to IDE 3, I moved it to IDE 1 and
had no probs installing.
When the HPT controller polls thru the IDE channels it will see the current
drive on IDE 3, but then it just stops once it gets to the boot option. It
goes for about a minute, then says non system disk or something like that.
"Brian Brunner" <brian.brunner@verizon.net.prophet> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005, 0_Qed <nano.bot@shaysnet.com> wrote:
>
>>> mrbisco wrote:
>>> > I have a KT7A-Raid mobo. Last week a hard drive failed. I used
>>> > another
>>> > drive to reinstall the OS but it runs really slow.
>
> This means the new OS load knows nothing about the old, dead, buried,
> lamented, Given Back To It's Maker, hard-drive-cum-door-stop.
>
>>> .........................
>>> > I was using IDE3 before...now for some reason, the HPT controller sees
>>> > the
>>> > drive during POST, but then does nothing after checking the CD and
>>> > Floppy.
>>>
>>> " ... but then does nothing after ... "
>
> Or did you leave the door-stop-disguised-as-a-hard-drive in your
> computer? So the HPT controller sees the dead drive (meaning the bus
> interface electronics are powered and running, and attempt to respond to
> some commands but can't because of the parts of the drive that really
> ARE dead?) BTW When you roll-call the patients in a hospital, Terry
> Shiavo's room can slow you up quite a bit, too. (woman brain-dead for 14
> years).
>
>>> ...................
>>> > If the same drive is plugged into IDE 1 or 2, it boots...but as I
>>> > mentioned...REALLY slow. About 5 minutes to a working desktop vs a
>>> > little
>>> > less than a minute. This includes loading of minimal start-up items.
>>> > Any help is appreciated.
>
> is "this drive" the one you loaded the OS onto, or the Zombie Door-Stop?
> (one of the technological drawbacks to these newfangled
> HugeInsideTinyOutside drives is that now a good door-stop requires
> terabytes of drive space, instead of a few hundred meg...)
>
>>> An educated 'guess' ...
>>> your ESCD has become confounded by the all HD swops ...
>>> no comment on the coresponding Reg entries,
>
> He re-installed the OS, so "reg entries" depends on whether this was a
> clean install on the new drive or not.
>
>>> The 'ESCD' is the successor to the overworked CMOS PC parm storage ...
>>> and 'sits' behind the (flashed) bios code in your BIOS prom chip .
>
> On the KT7 family it's not read-only, there is a BIOS menu option for
> "clear ESCD data". Say Yes to that, exit-saving-changes, and the ESCD
> is re-probed and re-learned.
>
> Try that, and if there are still problems, clear up some of our
> confusion here and we'll try again. We're free, and worth every penny!
>