TPI MJ
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Anyone know much about XP? I'm trying to get it to run on an older Abit BE6 rev.2 motherboard and it doesn't like the Hot Rod hard disk controler it uses. Anyone help me out here?
Windows XP problems
- Thread starter TPI MJ
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have you checked with ABIT for drivers? firmware/bios updates????
Also can you be more specific as to what the "doesn't like" means....?
Kejtar
Also can you be more specific as to what the "doesn't like" means....?
Kejtar
TPI MJ
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I have a clean formatted drive I'm trying to install XP on. I got the XP drivers for the disk controller. I hit the F6 on the XP setup where it says to to specify additional drivers. A screen comes up where I select the new driver off the floppy. Setup starts to load and it tells me there are no harddrives attached to the computer. any ideas?
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did you check here: http://www.abit-usa.com/faq/ for latest drivers and bios updates????
ALso does MS list it in it's HCL?
Kejtar
ALso does MS list it in it's HCL?
Kejtar
LRRH
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i've run it on a BE6-II and had no problems. Make sure you have the most current BIOS installed. Alos.....when you boot the computer are the drives even detected?? make sure they are jumpered properly.
RichP
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We have had some problems with both abit and msi boards. See if the board will take win2k. Part of the problem is the highpoint disk controller, the win2k ones should work from abit, download both of them
Had this squirreled away from last year when I ran into this. No guarantee that it will work, we stopped selling the board after win98.
1. Go to the ABIT site and download the HPT366 drivers for Windows 2000
(Versions 1.25.1 and 1.23.1). Then download and print the ABIT instructions
for updating the HPT W2K 3XX drivers.
2. Copy each of the files you downloaded to separate formatted floppy disks
and label the floppies. Click on the .exe files you downloaded to the
floppies and they will expand.
3. Now you should have two floppies. One with the V1251 driver files and
the otther with the V1231 files. In the event the V125 drivers don't work
you will be prepared to try V123.
4. Get into your BE6II BIOS and set your boot sequence to Floppy, HDD1,
CDROM. (Normally, the sequence will be Floppy, UDMA66, CDROM. You want to
replace UDMA66 with HDD1, (HDD2 or 3 should work also). If you're not SCSI,
you may have to place CDROM first to boot from the XP CD.
5. Boot from the XP CD and start the installation. When you see "Press F6 if
you have additional drivers to install" press F6 <s>.
6. Xp will continue to load until it stops at a screen advising you to
press "S" to install the drivers. Here you must follow the ABIT
instructions *very carefully* to insure that the drivers are installed
properly.
7. When XP reboots the first time click "delete" to get into your BIOS and
change the boot sequence back to Floppy, UDMA66, CDROM.
Had this squirreled away from last year when I ran into this. No guarantee that it will work, we stopped selling the board after win98.
1. Go to the ABIT site and download the HPT366 drivers for Windows 2000
(Versions 1.25.1 and 1.23.1). Then download and print the ABIT instructions
for updating the HPT W2K 3XX drivers.
2. Copy each of the files you downloaded to separate formatted floppy disks
and label the floppies. Click on the .exe files you downloaded to the
floppies and they will expand.
3. Now you should have two floppies. One with the V1251 driver files and
the otther with the V1231 files. In the event the V125 drivers don't work
you will be prepared to try V123.
4. Get into your BE6II BIOS and set your boot sequence to Floppy, HDD1,
CDROM. (Normally, the sequence will be Floppy, UDMA66, CDROM. You want to
replace UDMA66 with HDD1, (HDD2 or 3 should work also). If you're not SCSI,
you may have to place CDROM first to boot from the XP CD.
5. Boot from the XP CD and start the installation. When you see "Press F6 if
you have additional drivers to install" press F6 <s>.
6. Xp will continue to load until it stops at a screen advising you to
press "S" to install the drivers. Here you must follow the ABIT
instructions *very carefully* to insure that the drivers are installed
properly.
7. When XP reboots the first time click "delete" to get into your BIOS and
change the boot sequence back to Floppy, UDMA66, CDROM.
TPI MJ
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Thanks for all the help. I'm going to try to update the bios and see where that gets me.
RichP
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It is not so much the bios as the highpoint disk drivers, win2k and XP don't have them natively. IOW, they are not on the media cd.
xj92
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If you loaded driver at the F6 prompt and it still doesn't see the disk, then some hardware is bad, the drive is not detected in the BIOS, or you loaded the wrong driver.
