bios error

[vaderboy]

this question stems from a previous thread that I started. I am trying to have my mom's computer boot from the sata hard drives I installed last week. They are running on an Asus A7V8X motherboard with a SIIG pci sata/raid card installed. I have the pci card installed because the motherboard dosen't support sata. The pci card's drivers are installed but I can't boot windows without the old IDE drive plugged in. Is this because the system bios doesn't see the drives as they are run off the pci card.

[Cricket]

Did you try setting the first boot device to SCSI yet?

:) Cricket

[glc]

Reinstall Windows in the repair mode with the IDE drives disconnected.

[vaderboy]

bios doesn't have a SCSI option. if I repair with IDE drives disconected won't it fail because the bios can't see the pci card?

[glc]

No........the PCI card has ITS OWN bios.........all you need is the drivers for the PCI card on a floppy, press F6 to load them.

[vaderboy]

I reloaded windows with only the sata drives connected and am now recieving no post when I turn on the computer. there is no video signal and no beeps. This ocasionally happened before when I still had the IDE drive connected, but happens every time now. Whenever I do get a post after restarting, it tells me that the system failed to boot several times and then freezes.

[glc]

You may have a power supply issue or some other hardware problem.

[vaderboy]

tested the power supply and was fine, but replaced it anyway with an Antec 430W earthquiet psu. Removed 1 stick of ram and seems to have fixed problem although my optical drives are not visiable now. will try to reload the drivers for the optical drives and see if fixes all the problems.

[glc]

Are the opticals visible in the bios and in device manager? Any flagged devices in device manager?

[vaderboy]

nothing is flagged in the device manager except the printer drivers but it doesn't display cd\dvd drives. In the bios under IDE drives I can select one of the drives, but can't select it under boot devices. the computer is now saying that it has to rebuild the raid 1 array every time I boot as well. could the sata raid drives be messing up the optical drives.