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Promise controller problem w/Win 2K

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crcskc

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Feb 11, 2003
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Hi, all.
I recently did a clean install of W2K Pro with my hard drive attached to the mobo controller. I then loaded the latest drivers for the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller card and re-booted, then shutdown and moved the hard drives to the card. The problem now is that as soon as 2000 is just about done booting up, the primary hard drive goes into a shutdown/power up cycle repeatly. Had to put the HDD's back on the mobo. (There is a second hard drive attached to the same channel, but that one seems to be ok.)
According to Promise, the card should work with Win 2000. It worked ok with Windows 98.

Any ideas for a fix would be much appreciated. Remove it & reinstall? Move to a different PCI slot? Haven't tried these yet.

Thanks.

 
if you have access to a xp machine. copy the inf directoy. the drivers for xp work great on the 2k machine. I had better luck with doing that then finding the drivers online
 
Ok. I'm going to have to find a computer with XP. Not anyone I know of uses XP.
Thanks.
 
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