Problem with raid controller

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"Ryan Kristensen" <ryankristensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> I've just purchased a Q-tec 340R raid controller
> <http://qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13237>
> However I can't make it work with my ECS k7s5a v.3
> After the regular bios, it displays a list of harddisk attached to the
> raid controller and that's it, it doesn't start booting Windows or
> anything, and I can't use the f8 (bootmenu) to boot from floppy.
> I tried the raid controller in another system where it works fine.
>
> The only system requirements for this card, which I'm not sure I have is:
> At least one device like HDD supporting UDMA/133.
>
> Can't the k7s5a do that?
> Or is there another reason why I can't use this raid controller with my
> motherboard?
>
> --
You can change your BIOS settings to boot from floppy first.

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"Ryan Kristensen" <ryankristensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:35:04 GMT, Smoker <nospam@x.y> wrote:
>
> > You can change your BIOS settings to boot from floppy first.
>
> It doesn't help.
> It seems as if when the raid controller is connected the computer
> "forgets" to boot up, and stops when the bios is loaded.
> I can't boot up on anything, I've tried cd-rom, floppy and ide-0, all with
> the same result - the boot process stops after the drives connected to the
> raid controller is found.
>
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Go to http://www.ocworkbench.com/ecs
Cheepoman (who rewrites the BIOSes for this board) is one of the ECS
moderators. Whatever your question or problem can be answered there.