ATA/66 & ABIT BE6-II PROBLEMS

[runvsone]

I have a ABIT BE6-II motherboard with Pentium III 600. Just brought a new ATA/66 Maxtor 27.2 GB hardrive. When I attach the hardrive to the ATA/66 interface on the motherboard, the bios does not detect it! I get a color screen after the computer boots that list the drive. When I tried to run the Maxtor disk that came with the drive, and it won't detect it to partition it. Can someone help me out!

[arn]

You maybe have done this, but just to check:

Did you try to have the Bios Automatically detect it; Do you have the 80 pin cable plugged into IDE3; Do you have in the "standard CMOS setup" the "secondary master" set to "auto"?

This is all I can think of right now. Let us know how it goes.

I just thought of something else: In the " boot sequence" do you have something like this "A, C, EXT"? EXT needs to be in this line. Directly below the "boot sequence" is something like "EXT means" and this should say "SCSI".

arn

[This message has been edited by arn (edited 02-07-2000).]

[Keeya]

Found out the motherboard will not handle a P3 667 cpu.
Keeya

[This message has been edited by Keeya (edited 03-03-2000).]

[Mntsnow]

Keeya, THe PCI mass storage contoller IS THE ATA66 CONTROLLERS! You need to install the drivers for them (highpoint) You can download them from Abit's website or Highpoints website.

Runvsone,
When you have the drive attacted to the ATA66 controller (ide3 or ide4) and you will need to have the 80 pin cable in use! Also you MUST have the cable plugged in correctly as you will see it is COLOR CODED. (I cant think of them right now but I think the BLUE goes to the motherboard, The BLACK goes to Master and GREY goes to Slave. Also you will NOT see the harddives in the "NORMAL" bios but will find them in the "Highpoints" Bios. Also make sure you have the "EXT" set to ATA66 in the "normal" bios.

Mntsnow

*edited to confirm the COLOR coding*



[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 02-29-2000).]

[bruced]

I have had a spate of UDMA problems lately and learned that for the UDMA cable, the Blue goes to the motherboard, Black to master, and Grey to Secondary. This does make a profound difference in boot time too, about 20 seconds faster when cabled appropriately.

[Nightweaver]

Your system BIOS will not detect the UDMA 66 drive because the UDMA 66 controller has its own BIOS. That is why you get the blue HighPoint screen when you are booting up. Is this the only hd in your system? If so, make sure that your cables are all connected correctly, and change your boot drive to IDE-3 in the BIOS. Also, if it's a new drive and you haven't partitioned and formatted it yet, make sure you boot with a Win98 Startup disk first so you can fdisk it.