Ok, I just built a system over the past few days with the specs listed below. Everything was good until I flashed the BIOS just a few minutes ago. I have WinXP installed on a striped raid set connected to a Syba PCI RAID card using the Silicon Images 680 chipset. The OS is on a pair of 30gb maxtors and there are also two 80gb WDs on the card. As I said, everything was running fine until I noticed that the BIOS and OS were not detecting the CPU properly, so I flashed the BIOS with version -24 from abit's site. Now the computer posts fine, properly detects the CPU and then continues to the RAID card's BIOS, where it fails to detect each of my 4 drives. Then its a "BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" situation. I know all four drives did not fail at once, so I am blaming the BIOS flash. I thought I could update the RAID card's BIOS, but the site is down. That was my only idea. Any suggestions? -Dylan -- Abit AV8 Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2x256 Mushkin DDR400 (2-2-2) Thermaltake 420W PSU 220gb IDE RAID
Be sure you have reset the bios/cmos - see your manual. In some cases (depending on the type of changes within the update) resetting is mandatory for things to continue to work afterwards. One indication that you have succeeded in resetting is that the time/date values will be reset. Forrest Motherboard Help By HAL web site: http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/ < snip >
there is a problem with this board bios24 and sata raid.Best solution is to revert to bios 16, i think. DO NOT flash to bios 25. Have a look through here for more info http://forum.abit-usa.com/forumdisplay.php?f=49 I'm not running a raid so my info may be suss. -- SteveH Abit AV8 Third Eye v1.1, A64 3200+ at 2430(9x270),1.575V CPU DIY watercool Radeon Sapphire 9700
