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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:20:03 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote:
>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
>
That's certainly a possibility. This is a second hand
system, I got no documentation whatsoever with it, and such
documentation as I can download from Compaq is silent on the
matter.
If that's the case, I guess the only option will be to have
the boot drive on the MB controller, and try to do as much
as possible from the drives on the ATA/133.
I like the HPaq name, although those who've been where I
have in the computer industry might want to get DEC in there
someplace too...
Brian.
>On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:02:39 -0500, Brian <usenetposting@meadows.pair.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On 28 Feb 2005 19:39:52 -0800, returnoftheyeti@aol.com
>>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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