BE6=>ATA\66 Can anyone help???

[CCNP]

I have a 13 gig Western Digital with ATA\66 enabled (used Western Digital's program to make sure), and a BE6 Abit board. I've connected black end of ATA\66 cable to HD, and Blue to IDE 3 on motherboard. I have my BIOS setup to boot A,C,EXT => EXT Means UDMA66. I have Creative DVD and a Creative CD-RW both as primarys on the first two IDE controllers.

I had to install Win98 with the hard drive on the primary (IDE 1) controller, and installed the Win98 drivers for both ATA\66
controllers. When I moved the hard drive back to IDE 3 (ATA\66 controller) I couldn't boot from it. My system freezes at "Verifying DMI addressing pool..." (or something like that) Has anyone had success with these two(WD HD and BE6)? Are there any BIOS updates or fixes?

Also, if and when I get these two enemies to work together, how do I tell that I'm at 66?
(any software out there?)

[Vidfreek]

I have already helped 3 people with the same sort of problem but they just couldnt get it to work, I know someone with the same problem but I dont know if he got it to work yet. Are you sure you installed the ATA66 driver on the disk that came with the motherboard for both controllers that are listed as max storage in the system?? Cause if you didnt your hard drive wont be found. Windows98 doesnt have any drivers for ATA66 so you HAVE to use the disk. Make sure you dont restart the computer after installing one of them, you have to do both at the same time. After they are installed restart the computer, dont shut it down. After you get back to windows, check that you have scsi controllers in the system under control panel, there should be 2 of them. Now shut down and hook up the drive to IDE3. That should solve the problem unless you already did it like I said. If you did, I know one other person that has the same problem, but I dont know what to do about that, I tried to get his working for like 8 hours and it just wouldnt work on the ATA66.

About software to tell, im looking for some myself, cause i seem to be loading at about the same speed.

[Pseo15]

I have heard numerous reports on how ABIT BE6 isnt a good board like was expected. the Sound blaster live and v770 TNT2 doesnt work on it. and the ATA66 i have heard plenty of times that it has compadibilty problems. If i were you i would try to return the motherboard ASAP, and get a soyosy6ba+III. you can read tons of reports on those 2 boards and compare.

[MadMatt]

I'm having similar problems with a BP6 board. During boot I get a message indicating that the ATA66 controller is not supported in BIOS. Indeed there are no provisions in the CMOS screen or the HDD Auto-detect for these fast IDE channels. Looks like we need a BIOS update people. I'm trying to contact ABIT but the FREAKING lines to Taiwan are so shoddy I usually can't even get to their website!

[Bayfront Benny]

I have a BE-6 and find it incredible. You just have to figure it all out. There is quite a bit of stuff on this board which is the main reason people have trouble. Connect your CD's on IDE2 try them as master and slave and vice versa and they will work. Your WD ATA66 should be on IDE3. I am also running an ATA33 WD as slave on IDE3 and the High Point BIOS Picks them up correctly.

[Orion_Ta_Vega]

Yeah, I have a BE6 mobo and I'm using a WD 13gig HD w/ATA-66 and it works fine. My HD is going into the IDE3 port too. I installed the drivers and it works fine. Is there anything I need to do to varify that I really am running at the ATA-66 speed? Is there a benchmarking program that could tell me? Also, I was about to get a v770 ultra today, you said it doesnt work with the BE6? Why? Can it be fixed? Will and updated bios for the mobo fix it? Thanks

Jeff

[jbob]

I have a BE6 running NT4, and it works great. I used Winstone99 business tests, and got a 24 using the ultra33 ports. When I switched to the 80 wire cable, and the ultra66 port, I got a 27.

[MadMatt]

Ok, that sounds great, but how? Do you have to enable the bios to boot from the ATA66 controller?

[Bayfront Benny]

What temperature readings are you all getting on the BE-6? Please post both cable and system just to get a feel of where things are and should be.

[411sponge]

Hey everyone,
I have an Abit BE6 motherboard and a WD 18GB hard drive. I had the same problems but I didn't install the drivers that came on the disk. After I installed them I had not problems whatsoever!! I'm vey pleased with my system and I haven't had any crashes up to this point. Also, hear is the scarey part, I'm also running a Viper 770 on this system. No problems at all. I'm in shock with everyone having so many problems with this combination. This was the very first P.C. that I put together myself so I'm kind of sitting here beside myself wondering what I did to make it work. Anyways, just wanted to tell you everything works fine with my system.. Strange...
MadMatt, when I installed the drive it seemed like the motherboard automatically tried to boot from this drive. Just be sure to install that disk that came with the motherboard (that solved all of my problems!) Previously, before I installed the drivers I would get a conflict between the Primary and Secondary IDE controller. The UDMA66 would dynamically disable these two devices so I couldn't use my CD-ROM drive. (this really ticked me off!!) Oh yeah, one more thing, since the hard drive is in IDE3 it will NOT show up in the BIOS. Don't be alarmed. It will still work fine!!! I believe that only IDE1 and IDE2 will show up (anyone please correct me if I'm wrong) Well, I hoped this helped out.. Good luck to you!!

[Bayfront Benny]

Hey - finally the discussion continues.
I have the viper 550 and no problem. Have you OC'D the BE6? What CPU are you running?
Take your time this discussion probably won't go away too quick, let us know how it goes.

[stodge]

Madmatt, try www.abit-usa.com (http://www.abit-usa.com)

[arn]

I have a BE6, about 6 weeks old, first system I put together, 366@552, IBM Ultra ATA/66 that WinTune says 104 m/s, Viper 770 Ultra that runs full 17" screen @ 1280x1024x16, haven't found anything yet that slows it down.
vidfreak is right, you have to have 2 of them in your device manager and don't reboot until you have both in there.
I also had to remove Intel Bus Master IDE controler to get the 2 BE6 programs to install. Its under device manager, hard disk controlers. Don't reboot, (that's the mistake I made) because it will ask, just say no.
Remove, install (2)HPT366 Ultra DMA controlers. They should show up in device manager under 'scsi controlers'.
Now reboot and when windows starts is will want to install (another mistake I made) The INTEL 'Bus Master IDE Controler' back into the 'hard disk controlers' area. Let it do that (I didn't, well I evenually did).
Get Sandra or WinTune so you know where your at. Hope this helps.

One other thing. As I under stand it What ever you plug into IDE1 should be primary, What ever you plug into IDE2 should be secondary. HDD into IDE3.

And yes, on boot it first reads my cd-rom. I have it plugged into IDE1.

[This message has been edited by arn (edited 11-26-1999).]

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[CC]

Just to give you hope: BE6, ATI A.I.W.128, S.B.Live, Two 13G. Quantum KA series HDD(EXT,C,A UDMA66),One 6.4G. W.D. Caviar series(primary master),Creative32X CD-ROM(secondary master),HP 8100 CD-RW(secondary slave),D=Link NIC, USB Scanner,128Mb, 500P3-OC'd to 550(FSB110Mhz), Win98,Latest Highpoint(09/09/99)drivers,Latest Abit Flash BIOS update; stable, fast, boots in half the time of my UDMA33 drives, boots faster using native Win98 drivers, but stangely runs CD's faster with latest Intel BM drivers.If more details willbe of help, post again. Good Luck & don't give up!

[bogie23]

bios should be a ext c its trying to boot off c first not ext jumpers single drive