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promise ultra133TX2 pci controller card
Okay I am having some problems with my new promise ultra 133 TX2 pci
controller card. When my machine boots up (its a ibm compatible computer with an asus cusl2 motherboard), eveything is correctly recognized (my c to g drives along with my cd rom drive and my dvd drive). I added a third hard drive on the promise controller card (a segate 200 gig hard drive). The segate drive is correctly detected at the start of the computer through the promise controller card configuration, as a 189 gig drive). I am not sure why only 189 gigs, but that is for another question. Anyway, at this point the computer boots up to the windows 98 splash screen and when the computer tries to start, the screen goes black and the computer boots up again. At this point, windows 98 is started in safe mode. When I deleted all the windows 98 references on the c drive and did a complete install of windows 98 second edition, everything was okay upto the point where I configured my sound card. I was able to configure windows 98, my asus cusl2 motherboard drivers, my 3com 3c905 network card and finaly when I tired to install my soundblaster live gamer sound card (the standard gamer sound card, not the 5.1 gamer sound card) the computer when to reboot and the lock up happened as I described earlier. I tried to change some of the irq's for the various parts in the computer, but no luck. When my computer boots up, it shows that the network card is using irq 9, the sound card is using irq 9 and I think the pci controller card (or mass storage card or something like that) is using irq 9 or at least there is a 9 beside each card in the boot up screen. The main controller card on the motherboard is using irq 14 and 15. I have the pci controller card is slot 2 of the motherboard, the sound card is in slot 3 (I believe) and the network card is in slot 4 or something like that. I could try and move the cards around as I had a problem before with the sound card and network card not working together until I moved them around in the case from different pci slots. Can someone suggest how I can fix this problem with my new pci controller card? Edward Letendre. |
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Edward,
Have you installed WIN98-specific driver for this controller? If not -- you can install it in Safe Mode from diskette (or from HDD if to copy it there from CD in Command Prompt Only mode). As for 200 and 189GB -- manufacturers count the drive capacity in decimal gigabytes (1GB=1000^3=1 000 000 000 bytes), but Windows in binary gigabytes (1GiB=1024^3=1 073 741 824 bytes) instead. So in bytes it is all the same. As for multiple using of IRQ9 -- it is the feature of PCI bus (so-called interrupt sharing). I had up to 9 devices at this IRQ in Win98SE -- with no problems. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:19:02 -0800, Edward Letendre wrote: Okay I am having some problems with my new promise ultra 133 TX2 pci controller card. When my machine boots up (its a ibm compatible computer with an asus cusl2 motherboard), eveything is correctly recognized (my c to g drives along with my cd rom drive and my dvd drive). I added a third hard drive on the promise controller card (a segate 200 gig hard drive). The segate drive is correctly detected at the start of the computer through the promise controller card configuration, as a 189 gig drive). I am not sure why only 189 gigs, but that is for another question. Anyway, at this point the computer boots up to the windows 98 splash screen and when the computer tries to start, the screen goes black and the computer boots up again. At this point, windows 98 is started in safe mode. When I deleted all the windows 98 references on the c drive and did a complete install of windows 98 second edition, everything was okay upto the point where I configured my sound card. I was able to configure windows 98, my asus cusl2 motherboard drivers, my 3com 3c905 network card and finaly when I tired to install my soundblaster live gamer sound card (the standard gamer sound card, not the 5.1 gamer sound card) the computer when to reboot and the lock up happened as I described earlier. I tried to change some of the irq's for the various parts in the computer, but no luck. When my computer boots up, it shows that the network card is using irq 9, the sound card is using irq 9 and I think the pci controller card (or mass storage card or something like that) is using irq 9 or at least there is a 9 beside each card in the boot up screen. The main controller card on the motherboard is using irq 14 and 15. I have the pci controller card is slot 2 of the motherboard, the sound card is in slot 3 (I believe) and the network card is in slot 4 or something like that. I could try and move the cards around as I had a problem before with the sound card and network card not working together until I moved them around in the case from different pci slots. Can someone suggest how I can fix this problem with my new pci controller card? Edward Letendre. |
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I used the disk driver that came with my promise controller under the windows
9x-me driver directory. I am not sure if it was the latest driver, but either way, I have just taken the system in to get it checkout by the company that sold me the computer. The strange thing was that when I first moved the controller card over to a new slot and the controller card was not recognized immediately by the computer, the computer booted into windows 98 and completed the install of my sound card. Once the sound card was correctly installed everything was okay. I then re-inserted the controller card and plugged the ide cable back into the first slot of the controller card. the controller card was then recognized by the computer and windows 98 and the reboot problems began again. Hopefully in a few days, the company will have an answer for me. Thanks for the reply and I will see let you know what the problem was. The computer support people told me that they have never seen a problem with a soundblaster card and a promise ultra 133 TX2 card before, but you never know what it might be. One person said that it was because I was not using windows xp, but why would windows 98 drivers be available for the promise card. The card itself was made in 2000 to support large hard drives (lba 48 I believe). I would think that there would be a problem even if I could use just software (the software update for my motherboard (815 chip set) that allows larger hard drives and either windows 98 or xp, it would be the same. I have heard that data can be lost beyond the 132 gig limit. The problem should be corrected with the promise card alone, not to mention what operating system you are using. Someone even suggested it was my motherboard not be too new, but I have only pci slots on my motherboard and it is only 5 years old. Newer motherboards and processors can handle the larger hard dives, but I am not in a postion to be updating my system as of yet. One of these days, I will be going to a windows xp system with a newer pentium 4 system, but I am just waiting until things work out. Edward Letendre. "Mikhail Zhilin" wrote: Edward, Have you installed WIN98-specific driver for this controller? If not -- you can install it in Safe Mode from diskette (or from HDD if to copy it there from CD in Command Prompt Only mode). As for 200 and 189GB -- manufacturers count the drive capacity in decimal gigabytes (1GB=1000^3=1 000 000 000 bytes), but Windows in binary gigabytes (1GiB=1024^3=1 073 741 824 bytes) instead. So in bytes it is all the same. As for multiple using of IRQ9 -- it is the feature of PCI bus (so-called interrupt sharing). I had up to 9 devices at this IRQ in Win98SE -- with no problems. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:19:02 -0800, Edward Letendre wrote: Okay I am having some problems with my new promise ultra 133 TX2 pci controller card. When my machine boots up (its a ibm compatible computer with an asus cusl2 motherboard), eveything is correctly recognized (my c to g drives along with my cd rom drive and my dvd drive). I added a third hard drive on the promise controller card (a segate 200 gig hard drive). The segate drive is correctly detected at the start of the computer through the promise controller card configuration, as a 189 gig drive). I am not sure why only 189 gigs, but that is for another question. Anyway, at this point the computer boots up to the windows 98 splash screen and when the computer tries to start, the screen goes black and the computer boots up again. At this point, windows 98 is started in safe mode. When I deleted all the windows 98 references on the c drive and did a complete install of windows 98 second edition, everything was okay upto the point where I configured my sound card. I was able to configure windows 98, my asus cusl2 motherboard drivers, my 3com 3c905 network card and finaly when I tired to install my soundblaster live gamer sound card (the standard gamer sound card, not the 5.1 gamer sound card) the computer when to reboot and the lock up happened as I described earlier. I tried to change some of the irq's for the various parts in the computer, but no luck. When my computer boots up, it shows that the network card is using irq 9, the sound card is using irq 9 and I think the pci controller card (or mass storage card or something like that) is using irq 9 or at least there is a 9 beside each card in the boot up screen. The main controller card on the motherboard is using irq 14 and 15. I have the pci controller card is slot 2 of the motherboard, the sound card is in slot 3 (I believe) and the network card is in slot 4 or something like that. I could try and move the cards around as I had a problem before with the sound card and network card not working together until I moved them around in the case from different pci slots. Can someone suggest how I can fix this problem with my new pci controller card? Edward Letendre. |
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