Hi
I’m running Windows XP Pro, I have two IDE devices connected on the Pri_IDE port and two other ones on the Sec_IDE port, now I’m trying to get to work a working Hard Drive WD 250 GB with Data and NTFS partitions already on it, with not jumpers (Master) connected on the Raid port (Pri_Raid) on my mother board (Asus P4P800-E Deluxe) but windows can’t find it either under “Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management or using Partition Magic Either
Things I have done to determine if it was a hard drive problem:
- I tried the same have drive on other IDE port and it works fine so the HD seem to be healthy.
- I tried connecting another working hard drive on the same Raid (Pri_Raid) on board port with not result proving that is not a hard drive problem
- I tried setting up the jumper as a slave with not result so I put it back as master.
Things I have done on the Bios.
- I update my bios to the latest version from Asus web site (P4P8E006.rom)
- I set up on the Bios in the “Advanced tab/Onboard Devices Configuration/Operation Mode as IDE”, since I’m only using the one hard drive
- Every time I restart my computer the black booting screen say:
D0 WD230JB-00EVA0 232 GB Ultra DMA5
IDE BUS Master Enable
(Which I take as, the Mother Board has recognized the HD plugged on the Raid onboard port)
- I tried setting up on the Bios again on “Advanced tab/Onboard Devices Configuration/Operation Mode” this time as Raid and as was expecting it gave me a error saying that the array haven’t been determined or something like that meaning that is the wrong configuration because I’m using only one HD as IDE, so I put the Operation Mode back as IDE.
Things I have done on Windows:
- I downloaded and installed the latest Raid drivers from the Asus site (378raid_100137) but on “Device Manager/SCSI and RAID controllers/WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller “ Windows still give me a yellow exclamation sign and a message saying “the hardware may not work properly”.
- I downloaded and installed the latest ATA drivers from the Asus site (378ATA) just to see if it could work and I got the same message saying the “Wizard could not find a better Match for my hardware than the software I currently have installed” so I install back the latest Raid drivers from asus with the same result.
Any other ideas?
thanks
Alex
I’m running Windows XP Pro, I have two IDE devices connected on the Pri_IDE port and two other ones on the Sec_IDE port, now I’m trying to get to work a working Hard Drive WD 250 GB with Data and NTFS partitions already on it, with not jumpers (Master) connected on the Raid port (Pri_Raid) on my mother board (Asus P4P800-E Deluxe) but windows can’t find it either under “Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management or using Partition Magic Either
Things I have done to determine if it was a hard drive problem:
- I tried the same have drive on other IDE port and it works fine so the HD seem to be healthy.
- I tried connecting another working hard drive on the same Raid (Pri_Raid) on board port with not result proving that is not a hard drive problem
- I tried setting up the jumper as a slave with not result so I put it back as master.
Things I have done on the Bios.
- I update my bios to the latest version from Asus web site (P4P8E006.rom)
- I set up on the Bios in the “Advanced tab/Onboard Devices Configuration/Operation Mode as IDE”, since I’m only using the one hard drive
- Every time I restart my computer the black booting screen say:
D0 WD230JB-00EVA0 232 GB Ultra DMA5
IDE BUS Master Enable
(Which I take as, the Mother Board has recognized the HD plugged on the Raid onboard port)
- I tried setting up on the Bios again on “Advanced tab/Onboard Devices Configuration/Operation Mode” this time as Raid and as was expecting it gave me a error saying that the array haven’t been determined or something like that meaning that is the wrong configuration because I’m using only one HD as IDE, so I put the Operation Mode back as IDE.
Things I have done on Windows:
- I downloaded and installed the latest Raid drivers from the Asus site (378raid_100137) but on “Device Manager/SCSI and RAID controllers/WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller “ Windows still give me a yellow exclamation sign and a message saying “the hardware may not work properly”.
- I downloaded and installed the latest ATA drivers from the Asus site (378ATA) just to see if it could work and I got the same message saying the “Wizard could not find a better Match for my hardware than the software I currently have installed” so I install back the latest Raid drivers from asus with the same result.
Any other ideas?
thanks
Alex