Scsi card & KA7 owners beware.
This is a discussion about Scsi card & KA7 owners beware. in the Windows Hardware category; If you're thinking of up to the lastest Bios for the ABit KA7 and you have a scsi card such as an Adaptec 2940UW or a 29160 then beware. I've just tried installing bios revision KA7_RX - and it seems to prevent these scsi cards from installing their bios successfully at bootup - result no scsi hard drive will boot.
If you're thinking of up[censored] to the lastest Bios for the ABit KA7 and you have a scsi card such as an Adaptec 2940UW or a 29160 then beware. I've just tried installing bios revision KA7_RX - and it seems to prevent these scsi cards from installing their bios successfully at bootup - result no scsi hard drive will boot.
I've just spent hours scratching my head with the computer in bits, until I tried flashing back to the previous bios - guess what, everything now works. This is a pity as the revision addresses some SDRAM stability issues - Oh well will just have to wait for KA7_RY which is in beta as we speak.
I've just spent hours scratching my head with the computer in bits, until I tried flashing back to the previous bios - guess what, everything now works. This is a pity as the revision addresses some SDRAM stability issues - Oh well will just have to wait for KA7_RY which is in beta as we speak.
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I upgraded to the rx bios on my KA7 and have no problems with my SCSI card.
Win2000 Pro
AMD Athlon 850 MHz
Abit KA7 Mainboard (rx bios)
256MB PC100 SDRAM
Geforce DDR (Creative) 3.78 Nvida reference drivers
SB Live (value) Liveware for w2k
Adaptec AHA2940UW with an IBM 9GB U2W HDD
Plextor 12/20 narrow SCSI CD-ROM
(2) 8MB Voodoo2 in SLI (Diamond) 1.02 beta w2k drivers
USR Sportster 56k ISA
Win2000 Pro
AMD Athlon 850 MHz
Abit KA7 Mainboard (rx bios)
256MB PC100 SDRAM
Geforce DDR (Creative) 3.78 Nvida reference drivers
SB Live (value) Liveware for w2k
Adaptec AHA2940UW with an IBM 9GB U2W HDD
Plextor 12/20 narrow SCSI CD-ROM
(2) 8MB Voodoo2 in SLI (Diamond) 1.02 beta w2k drivers
USR Sportster 56k ISA
OP
This is interesting, as far as I can tell it has to be the bios that's causing the problem - I've tried flashing again, with the same result - and this is in a PC equiped with just a Graphics card, Scsi Card and hard drive. It's possible that the flash program isn't flashing the bios chip properally with my configuration - I'll check this out later.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback.
