Ultra ATA/100 hard drive on PCI controller card locks up system...

[coleslaw]

I installed a Maxtor ATA/100 PCI adapter card into my system into my last remaining PCI slot. I was getting a Windows protection error while booting, so I needed to manually configure the memory usage so that no devices were conflicting. This solved the problem with the card, but when I attach the ribbon cable to a Maxtor 30 GB 7200 RPM drive (with jumper settings for master), my system hangs during bootup and will beep at me if I push any keys at least 5 times. The Maxblast software was able to identify and to partition and format the drive. Also, I enabled "boot from cd-rom" in my bios, but when I insert a cd to boot from, Windows does not appear to recognize it. With this third hard drive attached, Windows in safe mode will not recognize my ATAPI optical drives, so I reassigned their drives letters manually to allow for the assignment of drive E: for the third hard drive. However, my system still hangs. Anyone have any other ideas, besides wiping my drive?

[Edited by coleslaw on 03-06-2001 at 07:54 PM]

[hapoo]

what kind of controller did you get?

[coleslaw]

:hmm:

[coleslaw]

Well, after using fdisk and a format on my main drive, Windows ME was able to instantly install and utilize my ATA/100 drive. Win98SE must be full of poop... :hmm:

[LPMiller]

I was going to say, maybe you need to check to boot order in the bios, but looks like you got it.

[diehrd]

Is this card below an agp slot ???Is any card below that agp
If so thats a no no,creates an irq problem.

Now if you tell me that board has no agp I am the fool !!

[coleslaw]

yeah, i tried moving that card to every pci slot on my mobo, which was a hassle because every slot is taken! i tried messing with the bios, etc., but when i attached the drive in winme, presto chango! it worked!