who is expert in win2k?
This is a discussion about who is expert in win2k? in the Windows Hardware category; I have an Abit Hotrod ata66 card on an Intel se440bx-2 mobo. I just bought an IBM dtla 30gb 75gxp drive. I understand that you need the 1. 26 bios and drivers to run win2k with this hardware. I updated my bios and installed the drivers in win2k before connecting the drive to the card.
I have an Abit Hotrod ata66 card on an Intel se440bx-2 mobo. I just bought an IBM dtla 30gb 75gxp drive. I understand that you need the 1.26 bios and drivers to run win2k with this hardware. I updated my bios and installed the drivers in win2k before connecting the drive to the card. Now, when I do connect the card, the win2k dtartup screen appears, then freezes. I can't boot past the nice picture.
Just to make things more fun, I dual boot on two seperate drives. The other drive is an older ata66 drive that has winme on it. I can boot fine into winme with the 1.26 drivers. Does anyone own a dtla drive and can boot into win2k from a hotrod add-in card?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Just to make things more fun, I dual boot on two seperate drives. The other drive is an older ata66 drive that has winme on it. I can boot fine into winme with the 1.26 drivers. Does anyone own a dtla drive and can boot into win2k from a hotrod add-in card?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I think I might have a possible thing you need to look into.
The IBM drives have their transfer rate set in their Firmware.
This can either be set to ATA-33, ATA-66 or ATA-100.
Now by default the IBM drives seem to come set as ATA-100 drives.
This causes problems as your controller is ATA-66.
What you need to do is pop along to IBM's site, I can't remember exactly the link you need, go to software & drivers and download the 'Speedset' application for the IBM HD's and set your new drive as ATA-66.
I had the same problem, I did have an ABit BE6-II motherboard with on-board Hotrod ATA-66 contoller.
I added a new IBM drive and had hard locks etc.
[This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 12 November 2000).]
I think I might have a possible thing you need to look into.
The IBM drives have their transfer rate set in their Firmware.
This can either be set to ATA-33, ATA-66 or ATA-100.
Now by default the IBM drives seem to come set as ATA-100 drives.
This causes problems as your controller is ATA-66.
What you need to do is pop along to IBM's site, I can't remember exactly the link you need, go to software & drivers and download the 'Speedset' application for the IBM HD's and set your new drive as ATA-66.
I had the same problem, I did have an ABit BE6-II motherboard with on-board Hotrod ATA-66 contoller.
I added a new IBM drive and had hard locks etc.
[This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 12 November 2000).]
OP
Thanks for the reply. I got the software from IBM. I switched the drive to ata66. However, I still locked up on the startup screen. Any other ideas?
i had exacltly the same problem i sorta fixed it by accident lol
try changeing your hdd to the secondary port for some reason that managed to fix it for me
did u install the drivers twice for once for each chip on the card
try changeing your hdd to the secondary port for some reason that managed to fix it for me
did u install the drivers twice for once for each chip on the card
