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willys
07-31-2005, 10:14 PM
I have a maxtor 160 ide hooked up to a pci card (only connection on card) not the mother board. Drive set to CS and using round cable with ground with end connection,not middle.

Was set to master and had same problem.

Windows XP had lost this drive 5 times now. System will show it. Can recover it with RECOVER IT ALL software.

Ran Maxtor dianostics and it passes all tests.

Any suggestions.?????????????
bailey
07-31-2005, 10:20 PM
be sure that you have the drivers installed for the card, and set correctly in the bios,
is the card a promise that came with the drive ?
willys
07-31-2005, 10:35 PM
system shows it as a windows xp rpomise ultra 133 tx2. Card was purchased separatedly from drive.
bailey
07-31-2005, 10:46 PM
that is a very good card, it is the same one I am useing in my system
willys
07-31-2005, 11:00 PM
There was an updated driver to version 2.0.o.43 dated in year 2003 that I just installed but still said was windows xp incompatiable. Older drive was from year 2001.
willys
07-31-2005, 11:01 PM
what settings are to be done in the bios?
Ob1
07-31-2005, 11:25 PM
found this for your card, try this one:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Other-DRIVERS-TOOLS/Others/PROMISE-ultra-133-tx2-326.shtml
bailey
07-31-2005, 11:36 PM
set the first boot device to scsi
tempus
08-01-2005, 06:12 AM
there is also a new bios for this card. you might want to consider upgrading it to the most recent.
glc
08-01-2005, 09:42 AM
Do you have SP1 or SP2 for XP installed? Baseline XP does not support drives larger than 137gb.
willys
08-01-2005, 01:02 PM
I have sp2 installed. It appears the new bios could solve my problem but how do you install it. When I ran it under xp didn't work and when ran under dos it hung up.
willys
08-01-2005, 01:05 PM
I am a little cautious on that site. Seems to indicate version 3.26 and "other" as author and no reviews. The promise tech site shows version 2.o.oo.015 as as newest version
tempus
08-01-2005, 03:29 PM
I am a little cautious on that site. Seems to indicate version 3.26 and "other" as author and no reviews. The promise tech site shows version 2.o.oo.015 as as newest version
Are you sure you are looking at the drivers? I am looking on the Promise sight and the driver version is at 2.00.0.43. Its the BIOS update, which you should do, that is at version 2.20.0.15. Check for yourself....
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=87&category=all&os=100&go=GO
willys
08-01-2005, 05:06 PM
Thanks for all the help. Have now installed bios update and driver update. Had downloaded the updates to the disk with the maxtor disk checking software and they wouldn't install from there so reformatted and then they worked. Thanks again.

Hopefully problem is solved.
willys
08-03-2005, 10:43 AM
Problem is back. The Maxtor drive loses the partition. I ran the maxtor drive though ALL the diagnosis problems and passed. Computer does lock up on programs and I am unable to end them, seemed like this started with update to sp2 but could be my imagination.

Any other ideas?
Ob1
08-03-2005, 01:19 PM
remove sp2 from your pc by doing a restore pt.