GA-8IHXP will not boot from ATA 133

[jhferry]

Hey everyone,

My quest to get my system up is at a halt. First of al I have the GA-8IHXP as I have posted earlier. Second its a dual boot. I had both OS's working from IDE1, its the Promise PDC20276 chipset. In windows xp the promise ata driver comes up in device mgr as not working, windows me is fine. When I switch the cable to IDE3 I can no longer boot without the blue screen of death. What would cause this? DO I have to completly reinstall Windows? I dont plan to use RAID. DO I have to install the Raid driver as well as the ATA 133 driver?

 

[svol]

The ATA driver would be enough for Windows... you might want to check if there aren't any resource (IRQ, DAM) conflicts between the onboard Promise controller and some other hardware.
Getting the latest drivers from the Gigabyte website may help too.

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[jhferry]

I have gotten a little further. I now have the driver (promise ata 133) on both OS's. The problem is I blue screen randomly when either OS is loading. Is this just a crap driver problem? Also can I disable the promise driver but still retain the 133 speed since its hardware based?

 

[Crashman]

It could be an IRQ conflict with another device, such as a PCI card. Go into BIOS and see what other device that IRQ is shared with, the info should be in the PCI PNP section.

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[svol]

And maybe the manual can tell him with which PCI-slot it shares IRQ... then he can keep any PCI cards out of that.

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[Crashman]

Either one should tell him, but it's usually easier to find in BIOS.

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