Abit BE-6 ata-66 & hard drive booting problem

[Altima]

Hi I have a Be-6 motherboard w/ 64mb of ram, P2 400mhz, and an IBM 18mb 7200 rpm 2mb cache ata 66 hard drive. Whenever I turn the power on and when the hard drives on the ata66 controller are suppose to run, it gives me a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." But when I reset the system it detects my hard drive and runs perfectly fine. I have tried another hard drive too and the same thing happend. This always happens! What should I do? Do I have a defective motherboard? Thanks

[jmorrell]

Change yout boot sequence in the BIOS so External is first (the ATA 66 controller uses the External setting to boot from).

[Altima]

thanks for the info but it still does the same thing. is there any other things in the bios i could change that might work?

[MadMatt]

OK, make sure that no hard drives are detected on your CMOS screen. If they are, delete them. Second, make sure the drive is attached to the ATA-66 IDE controller using the 80 pin ribbon cable. Set boot seq to EXT and 'Boot sequence EXT means' to ATA/66.

If that doesn't work, try attaching the drive to the secondary ATA-66 controller - thats what it took for me.

Remember to install the ata-66 drivers when you get it working or it'll just act like ATA-33.

[This message has been edited by MadMatt (edited 09-20-99).]

[CommanderC]

Though kinda off topic.. whats better, ATA-66 or UDMA?

[Altima]

hmmm... I just tried hooking it up to the secondary and the same thing happend. I double checked everything and it should work. What else could it be? I noticed that when the HPT366 thing is suppose to pop up it doesn't at all and goes straight to that "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." It works perfectly fine when I hit reset.

[Altima]

i double checked and the hpt366 does pop up but it just doesnt detect my drives. Then when I reset it, it detects my drives and works fine.