BP6.Com

Hi, Well yesterday I said 'fark it' and went out and picked up an Adaptec 1200A. Its a highpoint chipped card. I was really looking for a promise card but they had this thing in stock and it was a bit cheaper than the Promise so I decided to give it ago. I plugged it in and nearly cried when it didn...

Hi,

Thats what I've decided too. Which is annoying but it happens I spose....

Not real happy cause this SI card cause me AU$55 and the promise ones are all around the AU$180 mark which is a big difference.

Unless there is a BIOS tweak then I'm goin to have to go for the promise.

dewey

Update: I've correctly flashed to RV (no hpt) and it doesn't display the HPT blue screen. I've tried with a single CPU and single stick of RAM and even a PCI video card. The RAID card isn't being assigned an IRQ and isn't even shown in the device listing when the PC boots. Can anybody think of any m...

Ok thanks for confirming that there must be an issue with the BIOS Flash. I'm using the award flasher from the files section of this site and on POST it says 'RV' in the bottom left of the screen to indicate its an RV bios. I'll focus on getting rid of the HPT bluescreen and then go from there. Than...

Hi, I just installed a Skymaster (cheapish) sil0680A PATA RAID pci card and its not showing the RAID BIOS when I boot my machine. I've tried it in other motherboards (asus a7v133) and confirmed that the card works. Following specs on the bp6: 2 x 400mhz celerons (66mhz FSB) 640Mb non-ecc RAM (256 + ...