Bad BIOS? Need help

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Bad BIOS? Need help

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Please disregard

Solved the problem :=)
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aaaaawwww ..... :(
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Ok, new problem arrived.
Just tried to update BIOS (to bp6rvhpt130b), flash went fine, first reboot was fine, I chose "load setup defaults", reboot and then nada... black screen.... tried resetting CMOS, did not help...
What can I do?

I used these switches when falshing... hope they are not the cause of the fuckup?

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Tried replacing the BIOS chip with the chip from my old caps-dead BP6...same thing!!!
How the hell can that shit happen like that?
I mean, if BIOS got screwed, shouldn't replacing the BIOS chip make the mobo boot again?

Can't believe the stream of bad pc karma I have experienced lately.. sick how it tends to come in waves...

Would really appreciate some help to get the board back to life - thanks.

Why why why did I not read this before I did it :(
http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=928
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Update: apparently a more "patient" CMOS clear seemed to work using the "old" BIOSCHIP..so back to booting again ;)
The reason I wanted to update bios, is that I bought a PCI sata controller card, but it seems to conflict with the HighPoint controller on the mobo itself :(
Is there any way to completely disable the HighPoint controller on the BP6?
Or how else can I get my SATA controller ard working - booting stall after listing devices :(

It can boot if there are no SATA hdds attached to the controller card, but as soon as I plug in hdds to it, boot stall after listing devices :(

Please help....
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Post by s4brains »

Phantom,

To the best of my knowledge, there is no procedure that will completely disable the HPT controller. There are some modified BIOS versions which exist without the HPT BIOS, but the modified BIOS does not mask any interrupt generated by the HPT controller hardware and would not prevent a need for the interrupt to be serviced.

Have you tried placing the SATA controller in all the different PCI slots?

Regards,

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Post by davd_bob »

What slot are you using for the SATA? Doesn't the HTP shares an IRQ with pci slot 3.
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Ok, will try all PCI slots and see if one of them will work better than the others...thnx for input guys
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Hmmm....have tried all PCI slots now.. same thing.....
SATA card bios loads fine, htp bios loads fine, but then boot stalls after listing PCI devices and successfully updating ESCD and verifying pool data .....

It makes no difference if I chose EXT=SCSI or EXT=UDMA

It can't be right that I can't use a SATA controller card on this motherboard....
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Hmmm.....no help ???
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do you have an exisiting win2k system on this system and you are now adding another PCI card in later ?

this can be very hard if the numbering system gets altered .....
ide0,1,2,3 won't change much
but an add-in card might mess with your HPT drive by re-numbering it .....

which is why I keep saying, who put's there OS on a Raid drive, or add-in card. you add-in another card, you are so screwed.
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Dave Rave wrote:do you have an exisiting win2k system on this system and you are now adding another PCI card in later ?
Yes.
Dave Rave wrote:this can be very hard if the numbering system gets altered .....
ide0,1,2,3 won't change much
but an add-in card might mess with your HPT drive by re-numbering it .....
What do you mean by this?
The problem is that booting never even reaches windows, it stalls after listing PCI devices etc....so how can that be an issue related to win2k?
Dave Rave wrote:which is why I keep saying, who put's there OS on a Raid drive, or add-in card. you add-in another card, you are so screwed.
My OS is on primary IDE channel, master disk.
Don't use the Highpoint IDE slots at all...
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