SCSI system - hopelessly stumped.

[Jeriko]

Okay I'm building a new system from the ground up. I have everything installed in the case and all that. It's a 1.33GHz Athlon on an MSI K7T266 (VIA KT266) motherboard.

The SCSI controller I have is a Tekram DC-390U3W. Now let me explain how I've connected things...

Channel A of the card. One end of the cable is connected to the controller, the next plug on the cable is connected to a Seagate X15 HD(has no internal terminator), and the third and final plug on the cable has the Active terminator supplied with the card.

On Channel B, one end of the 50-pin cable is plugged into the controller, and the other end is plugged into a Plextor SCSI CD Rom which has an active terminator built in and enabled.

I have tried removing the jumpers that regular 33/66MHz PCI.

This system is being built from scratch - there is nothing on the HD. It is not formatted.

The reason why is that I get some message that looks like a standard copyright information you see on a lot of bootups that says something about LSI Logic and PCI and SCSI - nothing particularly important. And nothing else. My system stops there and does nothing. It doesn't look for the A drive. The system looked for the A drive when I tested it before installing the SCSI card - but now it just sits there. I'm not getting to the SCSI BIOS. I do not think it's a problem with the card because the system is obviously "seeing" the card (hence the LSI Logic (I think that's it) copyright.

I think either I've connected the cables incorrectly, terminated incorrectly, or modified the jumpers incorrectly. The only jumper configurations I have done were to take JP1 and JP2 jumpers off. But it did the same with them so I don't think that's it.

I'd appreciate any help here ASAP. I want to try out this baby.

For what it's worth the floppy is a little flakey. But even then the system should be asking for a boot disk or drive of some sort (it did before).

-J

 

[billabong]

Try disconnecting both drives from the scsi card and making sure it is set for 33Mhz PCI. If doesnt boot then try the card in another slot in case its an IRQ conflict.

If the computer boots ok, then try connecting just the hard drive. If that works ok then connect the CD Rom. If these do not work just recheck the termination and SCSI ID of the drives.

 

[Jeriko]

I tried disconnecting everything but still have the same problem. Tried both without jumped and with them. Also tried another slot. Same problem. I also noticed that the red LED on the card is on.

-J

 

[Jeriko]

BTW if there's anything in the system BIOS that might be the problem I'm certainly open to that too. I'm especially interested in the jumper settings people used to get the card at 33. I'm sure it's both jumpers out but I could be wrong.

-J

 

[Jeriko]

Bumping this before I shove off to bed. Hope someone can figure this thing out.

-J

 

[Dameon]

Jeriko, pull the SCSI card, see if you can boot to floppy. Alot of VIA KT systems have BIOS overlay / SCSI card issues. Both my Abit and Aopen boards have had this issue. Are you running the LATEST bios available for the board? Try updating it and see if it allows the BIOS overlay for the SCSI card to work properly.

 

[Jeriko]

Just checked on the BIOS. There is no BIOS update for the K7T266. So I have the latest.

-J

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Make sure the system BIOS is set up to boot from SCSI first, and make sure it's not looking for any IDE devices (unless you have some IDE devices), if you can get into the SCSI BIOS, make sure that it's setup correctly, specifically make sure that it is set to "reset IC configuration on startup" or something to that effect, this tells it that the devices that were connected last time may not be the devices that are connected this time, and needs to be enabled the first time you set everything up.

 

[borealiss]

try forcing different irq's to the scsi card's pci slot. it might be a conflict. also, just have your scsi card, memory, cpu, and graphics card connected, nothing else, and disconnect all the drives/cables to the scsi card. i'm assuming you're not overclocking. you can also try different pci slots. you might want to disable onboard eide and maybe even usb to see if it is a resource conflict. the jumper for 33/66 mhz pci frequency is on the scsi card? if it is, you should leave the jumper so that it is set at 33 mhz operation.

 

[Jeriko]

Well I tried setting the 1st boot to SCSI - no difference. ALso, I'm not getting as far as the SCSI BIOS.

To me in the manual - it clearly looks like removing the two jumpers puts it in 33MHz mode. Anyone else have a Tekram 390U3W and can confirm this?

-J

 

[Jeriko]

Deleting. Accidentally reposted.