EVGA 680i A1 rev - PCI ATA Controller problem

simjc2

simjc2

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Hi, I've just posted this on the EVGA forums, but I thought I would post here also to see if anyone knows the solution. So below is a cut a paste. Thanks in advance.



Just go the A1 revision.

It came with the P26 bios. I'll be upgrading old hardware later, but for now I have two PCI cards slotted in: GForce-6200 and a HighPoint Rocket 133 ATA133 controller with latest bios for that card.

Now initially when I switched the system on for P26 bios revision: the Rocket card was recognised, saw its bios boot screen, which recognised the ATA hard drives. The bios listed, the SCSI device, so I could select to boot from the HD. However, the problem was it would never boot. Just got BIOS FF code, and nvidia check media cable messages.

So, I upgraded the bios to P30. Now the card is no longer recognised. I've tried both PCI slots. The card still works as I've tested in an old system. I put in my previous ATA controller, a Promise100TX2, in the motherboard and it detected that (saw its Bios boot screen, detect HDs etc). But again same problem, could not boot from the HD.

Plugging both HDs 1x1 into the motherboard itself I can boot from them.

The whole reason I have the Rocket is because it is vista compatible, and I need to use my dvd burner (not connected at present) on the on-board IDE ATA port.

I need help! Can I roll back to a previous bios? (if it ever downloads off of the ftp site)

Suggestions please.




Thanks in advance


The hardware in my system:

2 x 1GB OCZ-8500 SLI edition memory
An Antec Quattro 850W PSU.
A Intel Duo E4300
 
OK, 1st off, you can downgrade your bios if you wanted to.

however, 1st clear the cmos and see if the system boots normally without the raid card.

Then put the Raid Card in and see if it recognises it.

Also, my 8 port Rocket Raid card sometimes loses the "boot" drive from the bios, make sure thats set on your card. Hopefully it'll then boot
 
Fantastic. Thanks. You pointed me in the right direction. I tried the CMOS reset before, but did not work. Booting from board could do.

Here is how I got it to work so far.

1. Clear CMOS
2. Remoed my non RAID Rocket 133, and booting from board worked. (new step)
3. Inserting Rocket board back in, not connecting anything to it. Now saw bios screen. (new step)
4. Connect single HD to it (in process, unconnected DVD drive).
5. Boot system, now no BIOS screen for Rocket. Interesting.
6. Connect up DVD drive, to IDE on board.
7. Boot system, now Rocket BIOS appears, eh voila, booting off HD to blue screen.
8. TO DO - Reinstall OS.


Thanks Again.


PS. I've enabled SLI ready memory, and put its voltage to 2.3 (as that is what it is meant to be running at, I believe.)

Anything else I might of missed?


PS2. Once I've got my system up and running. I'll post a new thread, as completely new to overclocking, but not to system building and OS configuration etc.
 
a lot of people are still having problems with raid cards and bios p29/p30.

Revert back to P28 or earlier to cure the problem.
 
simjc2 said:
7. Boot system, now Rocket BIOS appears, eh voila, booting off HD to blue screen.
8. TO DO - Reinstall OS.
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Not neccessarily, was it all working before the bios update ?

Try booting into safe mode, what OS you using ?

Also it may sound daft but I think maybe your RAID card and Onboard IDE maybe using the same resources. Try manually setting up an IRQ for it in the bios.
 
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Just to let you, I now have a working system using the P30 bios. XP and Vista both booting fine.


With bios B26 no booting was happening. Just recognised controller card and that was that.


PS. Just heard on the other forum that there is a voltage problem with P29 and P30. Gotta roll back to P28. That's going to make life interesting.
 
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Precisely what I said in #2 of this thread. Steps 1-8 with P30.

Now I've gotta roll back to P28 due to this voltage issue. Think Vista already hit it when doing its performance thing on install, as it just reboots the system.

With XP I just updated the drivers for motherboard etc, and off we went. Going to do a proper rebuild later.

Now with P28, I'm gonna find out whether I go back to square one. Oh well, but not tonight.
 
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