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Promise raid driver? boot floppy?

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by wino460

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Anyone know how to make a promise ata 100 ide card work correctly in win xp? how about make the promise array management utility work correctly? post show it functional but PAM does not show equal amounts of data being sychro'd it hard to varify data integrity. Then when you have a failure and get a black safe mode screen and try the reinstall control panel restore it askes for an A:/ floppy to perform it I don't have one??? How about a boot disk with the restore executable on it?? cdrom preferably

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by thechas

If you purchased a retail version of the card, everything should have come with it.

If you have a white box (OEM) card, you are limited to what you can download from Promises web site.

Depending on your particular card, and hard drive, you mayneed a BIOS upgrade for the card.
Also, make sure that you have the latest driver from Promise.

Chas

by wino460

I have the retail card and have downloaded the XP patches 2-3 of them however they do not work i am not sure if it has anything to do with the promise on-board ata raid which they do not support for the ASUS A7V MB the patches upgrade the MB butnot the card. I am curious if the card can be flashed over? I have a couple people tell me the mirroring is working but something in winXP keeps you from seeing it the same way in 98se you would see the data on both drivesso you would know when to sychro, them as well as schedule the sychro. I am still looking for the XP boot disk (A:) that restore panel wants? due to I had black ice defender terminate something it percieved as a trojan threat even thou the application control was turmed off completly this caused a BLACK safe mode screen and would not allow access to the system restore. someone reinstalled XP and then all the pervious restore points were gone from the original install along with the software install check points.

by thechas

Yes, you likely are having a conflict between the on-board Promise controller, and the plug-in card.

While you can flash update the BIOS on the plug-in card, you cannot idependantly flash the Promise BIOS for the motherboard.

There is a 3rd party support site that does package the latest Promise BIOS with the ASUS BIOS.
Right now, I can only find the ABIT links.

You can create a bootable floppy in XP from the floppy format dialog.
An XP bootable has a lot more files than for older versions of Windows.

If you can, move your drives around and try disabling the on-board Promise controller.
Alternately, try the plug-in card in different slots.

While I like ASUS as a MB mfg, the A7V is not among my favorites.
One trick to use with it, is to manually set your CPU FSB and multiplier.

I will check my other PC for the ASUS 3rd party site, and either add another answer, or a comment to this one with the link.

Chas

by wino460

I can get the onbaord raid updated in bios but not the control card. neew to get the card bios updated. i am in jumper free mode, so how do you get the multiplyer to run the fsb over 100mgz its at 100 now but its a 200mhz board not a 266fsb

by thechas

I see that ASUS has several variations of the A7V board.

Mine has SDRAM.
With SDRAM, you actually set the FSB to 100MHz
and the multiplier as needed for the CPU speed.
Then, if you have PC133 RAM, set the memory speed to FSB +PCI buss.

Chas

by wino460

Closed question removed promise raid card to purchase new unit. that is not 2 years old and poorly supported by manufacturer!

by rtfm error

i have the same mobo, and just installed 2k adv server on it. if you email me, ill send you the files you need for the boot floppy

nick

by wino460

what I am looking for is the floppy that would be used to perform a restore to system if you have to boot to XP disc due to like a black safe mode screen. so when you boot and hit f2 to go to the restore panel it asks for the restore disk to be placed into the a drive, I did not get it withthe XP Por software and no one has heard of an a:/ floppy for system restore panel my e-mail is my user name but i'll give it wino460@earthlink.net

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