[thelist] [OT] Ultra ATA nightmare

Ken Schaefer ken at adOpenStatic.com
Wed Apr 21 21:00:30 CDT 2004


<my suggestion>

Take it back to the store. Pay the guy there $50 to "make the problem go
away" by having him/her install Windows. If the drive is faulty, then they
can replace it.

Cheers
Ken

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com>
Subject: RE: [thelist] [OT] Ultra ATA nightmare


: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Michael Pemberton
: > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:06 AM
: >
: > Is it at all possible that the bios is not compatable with the hdd?
: >
: > http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/bioslimit_338.html
:
: It's possible, for sure.  But it's not locking on boot up.
:
: > Is it an 80 pin cable?
:
: Yes.  It's plugged into the on-board Promise Ultra100 ATA controller.
:
: > What program did you use to copy the old files onto the new one?  Was it
: > a drive imaging / duplicating program?
:
: The drive came with a software that does this.
:
: I'm beginning to think it's a BIOS problem, as you suggested.  Now I have
an
: impasse... if I flash the BIOS without first updating the Windows driver,
: then windows won't load.  But, I cannot load Windows until I flash the
: BIOS... what's a guy to do!
:
: This is why I like programming webpages more than troubleshooting the
: servers they run on.  Ugh.



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