Asus P3B-F and Promise ATA66

[Obelix]

I am using the P3B-F board and the Promise ATA66 as the controller for my Quantum ATA66 drive.
Everytime I turn on my computer, I was prompted to choose booting up from hard drive or CD drive. I try to disable the onboard IDE controller an still get the prompt. BIOS does not have an option to boot up from ATA66 as the BIOS from ABIT boards. The system does work but this prompt is kind of annoying me a bit. Is there a work around it? Thank you.

 

[Lvis]

I have a p3b-f with a promise raid card. In the bios you need to set up the boot sequence to boot from a scsi card. The motherboard can't tell the difference between a "real" scsi card, and your controller card.


I hope this helps

 

[Obelix]

Thanks for thereply L vis. It didn't work. It seems that I will get this prompt if I disable the primary onboard controller or able it
and have nothing attached to it. In the BIOS boot sequence, I have
the following options:
1- Legacy Floppy
2- IDE Hard drive
3- CD-ROM drivr
4- LAN or SCSI devices
I think Asus is behind Abit on this one.

 

[Lvis]

Unless I'm missing something your boot sequence should be:

1 floppy

2 scsi

3 cd

Your hard drive or drives are hooked up to the promise card, right?

If so you should remove ide hard drive from your boot sequence.

good luck

 

[Obelix]

Hi L vis. On the 2nd option under the boot sequences, I do not have the scsi option as you have. I just verified my BIOS to confirm the boot sequence with my Asus P3B-F and bios v.1006:
Under Boot:
1- Removable device:
-Legacy Floppy
2- IDE Hard drive:
-Disabled
-Quantum drive xxxxx
3- ATAPI CD-ROM:
-Disabled
-CreativeDVD-ROM
4- Other Boot Device
-Disabled
-SCSI Boot Device
-Int18 Device (netwrok)
-Intel UNDI, IXE-2.0(build 067)
As you can see, the IDE is the second in the sequence. If it does not detect any IDE drive then it will prompt me for SCSI hard drive or CD-ROM. What BIOS version do you have? Thanks.

 

[Lvis]

I have the same bios version as you. You almost have it. you need to push up the scsi boot option to the top, you use the +/- symbols plus the space bar. Play with it you'll figure it out. good luck

 

[WBF]

Just to put in my two cents, I have the same MB and was using the ATA66 Promise card and always hated dealing with the boot up problems caused by it. I ran some benchmarks with and without the card and I found no difference in the performance so I have since not been using it. Give it a try and see if it works the same for you, at least it will solve your problem.

 

[IceStorm]

Disable the Quick Power On Self Test - make the BIOS do the full RAM count three times (or however many it takes).

I've had this problem on my P3B-F and a Promise Ultra66 as well as a Tekram DC390U2W, and with an Asus P3V4X using the Promise. If it finished the RAM count, it's fine. If you cut it short, or enable the Quick Power On Self Test, it causes the problem.

I have no idea why it does it. Usually, if I'm that much in a hurry to boot, selecting the SCSI thingy from the menu isn't a big deal.

 

[jrichrds]

I'm with WBF on this one. I went back to just the onboard controller and noticed no difference.