Having difficultinstalling OS on my KT333Dragon Ultra Platinum.

Lots of installation issues.

I did somehow manage to successfully upgrade the bios from A22A to A227.

The biggest problem now is that I cannot control the boot up sequence. I
simply can't find anyplace in the old or new bios where you input your
choice of boot device. I want the luxury of choosing where the boot up
sequence starts up... be it floppy, CD or hard drive. Somehow, yesterday, a
menu came up asking me of boot sequence. I can't remember what caused that
menu to come up nor can I cause it to re-occur.

I have two identical 80GB ATA133 hard drives on the highpoint raid
controller. They both are configured as MASTER and they are the only device
on the cable.

When I am asked to do a controlH to bring up the bios for the highpoint
controller, (level 2.34) it seems to acknowledge both drives correctly and
one of them is marked as the 'boot' disk as the primary on the master
channel and the other drive is marked as the 'hidden' disk as a master on
the secondary channel. So far, that all seems ok??

The system boots up with a simple c: DOS prompt because yesterday, I did a
fdisk and put a partition of these drives and then did a format /s. It seems
I'm stuck now. HELP!!!!!

My only other drive is a CD drive is set up as master on the standard IDE 0
controller.

At this point, I can't get it to boot from a floppy, or to boot from a CD.
If I ever get to the point where I can choose what device to boot from, what
steps do I need to take in what sequence to load XP?? Help!!

Please respond to:
GREG DOT CA AT ATTBI DOT COM
Thanks --Greg--

Bios was upgraded from 2AA2 to 2AA7. Sorry for the confusion. --Greg--



"Anon" <> wrote in message
news:FjmNa.37581$Xm3.8266@sccrnsc02...
> Lots of installation issues.
>
> I did somehow manage to successfully upgrade the bios from A22A to A227.
>
> The biggest problem now is that I cannot control the boot up sequence. I
> simply can't find anyplace in the old or new bios where you input your
> choice of boot device. I want the luxury of choosing where the boot up
> sequence starts up... be it floppy, CD or hard drive. Somehow, yesterday,
a
> menu came up asking me of boot sequence. I can't remember what caused that
> menu to come up nor can I cause it to re-occur.
>
> I have two identical 80GB ATA133 hard drives on the highpoint raid
> controller. They both are configured as MASTER and they are the only
device
> on the cable.
>
> When I am asked to do a controlH to bring up the bios for the highpoint
> controller, (level 2.34) it seems to acknowledge both drives correctly
and
> one of them is marked as the 'boot' disk as the primary on the master
> channel and the other drive is marked as the 'hidden' disk as a master on
> the secondary channel. So far, that all seems ok??
>
> The system boots up with a simple c: DOS prompt because yesterday, I did
a
> fdisk and put a partition of these drives and then did a format /s. It
seems
> I'm stuck now. HELP!!!!!
>
> My only other drive is a CD drive is set up as master on the standard IDE
0
> controller.
>
> At this point, I can't get it to boot from a floppy, or to boot from a CD.
> If I ever get to the point where I can choose what device to boot from,
what
> steps do I need to take in what sequence to load XP?? Help!!
>
> Please respond to:
> GREG DOT CA AT ATTBI DOT COM
> Thanks --Greg--
>
>

In article <FjmNa.37581$Xm3.8266@sccrnsc02>, says...
> Lots of installation issues.
>
> I did somehow manage to successfully upgrade the bios from A22A to A227.
>
> The biggest problem now is that I cannot control the boot up sequence. I
> simply can't find anyplace in the old or new bios where you input your
> choice of boot device. I want the luxury of choosing where the boot up
> sequence starts up... be it floppy, CD or hard drive. Somehow, yesterday, a
> menu came up asking me of boot sequence. I can't remember what caused that
> menu to come up nor can I cause it to re-occur.

The boot-up sequence selection is off the screen initially. The selection is towards the bottom of
the 'SOYO Combo Feature' page. You will need to scroll down to reveal it.

HTH

In article <h1CNa.43052$Xm3.7461@sccrnsc02>, says...
> can't believe that the answer was so simple. You are totally correct. It
> was simply at the bottom of the page where I have never looked. (I had to
> scroll down) to make it visually apparent. Thank you so much!!!
>
> More problems though, when I try to manually enter the raid driver
> initially, when I first start to load XP, it indicates to push F6 to enter a
> raid or scuzzy driver. After putting the files on a floppy and trying to
> load, this error message pops up:
>
> File \win_XP\htp3XX.sys caused an unexpected error (18) at line 2108 IND:XP
> client\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.C.
>
> At this point the installation of XP freezes and I can't get past this
> point. The files that I have put on the floppy are:
>
> disk1
> txtsetup.oem
> hpt3xx.cat
> hpt3xx.inf
> hpt3xx.sys
> hptpro.sys
>
> Am I forgetting something?? I have not altered these files at all. Do I need
> to??
>
>
> Somehow, the correct driver is not being loaded. I tried both from the CD
> that came with the motherboard and from files I downloaded from the SOYO web
> site. Somehow, I'm forgeting a step somewhere. Any ideas?? --Greg--

Go to Highpoint http://www.highpoint-tech.com/
pick up the driver version that match the Highpoint BIOS version on your
board. If you have the v2.34 BIOS then get the v2.34 drivers. Then unzip
the zip file directly to a floppy so that it retains the exact directory
structure. The floppy 'must' have a WinXP directory that contains the
highpoint drivers, and a file named TXTSETUP.OEM both in the root of the
floppy. WinXP will not install the drivers if it doesn't find
TXTSETUP.OEM to direct it to the drivers that 'have' to be located in
the 'WinXP' directory on the floppy, not on the root of the floppy.

Doug