scsi controller stopping pc from booting and/or OS working

[witchkat]

I have a scsi card that seems incompatable with my mainboard. I figure it is either an interupt problem or the card itself is causing the problem (its a few years old).

I have recently upgraded my mainboard (MSI MS 6330Lite V3) and processor (AMD 1.2GHz). When I bought the Plextor I attached it to a Symbios 8100 scsi card and all was well. But the new mainboard does not seem to like this card - in three slots it stops the PC from booting (not even a bios beep) and in the other two slots the PC will boot and the operating system (Windows Me) will also start, but completely freezes within approx 60 seconds or when I try to access the CD-R. (Windows Me had no problem recognising the scisi card and loading drivers for it.

I would really like not to buy another scsi card or replace my Plextor with an IDE unit.

Please help!!!!!

[nilknarf]

Does it work with the SCSI card removed?

If possible, change the IRQ setting of the card.

[Imperion1]

Remove the scsi card and see if the system will boot up.

[witchkat]

Thank you for your responses.

If I remove the scsi card the machine boots fine.
It is terminated correctly
and I dont' know how to chec/change the IRQ's... any help ... please

[bobcat]

Everything is terminated correctly?

[Imperion1]

Try this, won't hurt. Leaving the SCSI card out, reboot into safe mode by pressing the F8 key right as the Verifying DMI Pool Data shows up, press the number (I believe its 3) to boot into safemode.
Right click on My Computer, left click on properties, go into device manager, click on SCSI Controllers, and remove any and all of the scsi controllers from this list.
Reboot the system. Then shut it back down.
Put the SCSI card in an open PCI slot, usually PCI4 works best on controller cards.
Reboot the system, windows should find the card and install the drivers. If not, go into Device Manager and check to see if there is an exclamation point on the SCSI Controller option.
If there is, then double click on the scsi controller, click on driver, and install the driver.
See how this works.

Just noticed, is the scsi card a PCI or ISA scsi card?
If its an ISA then just put the card in an open ISA slot, won't fit a PCI.