HELP? new hard drives and highpoing 366 1.28 release for xp

[bp6]

My poor old BP6 has been having some issues with some new hard and
soft upgrades I've been performing on it. I never really used the raid
portion of my BP6 until just recently. I just bought a Western Digital
160GB hard drive and installed it on my primary ultra dma 66 controller.
I had installed the most current High Point BIOS update about a year ago
just to be safe in case they stopped supporting it. I'm running windows
xp and have the appropriate update installed. My problem is that when I
shut down or reset my computer my hard drives have issues and make
some very disturbing noises. As windows is powering down, my hard
drive powers up and then down, up and then down, up and then down
before turning off. It can best be discribbed as zoooooom click...
zuuuuuummm click.... zooooooooommm click..... click..power off. Has
anyone else experianced this? Any ideas on solving the issue... it
doesn't sound healthy.

Please help. thank you.

[davd_bob]

try the drive on the standard IDE primary port and see if it does the same thing.

[BCN]

Yes, it does that thing on HPT and it slowly kills your drive and corrupts the data....

I would suggest you to buy a Promise controller and be safe, otherwise, you will be looking for where was that warranty on your HDD and for some unrecoverable data...

Just do not use HPT!

[davd_bob]

...best be discribbed as zoooooom click...zuuuuuummm click.... zooooooooommm click..... click..power off.

if the drive does this on the standard ide port you probably need to exchange it for a new one as defective.

[BCN]

mine was doing the same sounds, but it survived, besides that's because of 1.28 drivers, the earlier do not damage the HDD THAT MUCH...

[bp6]

Thank you everyone for replying so quickly. I have done the nessicary
trouble-shooting to determine that it is a problem with the controller. The
hard drives power on and off perfectly fine on all other controllers I've
placed them on. Since my initial post I installed HPT366 v1.30 which I
found on this site, but it did not solve my problem. I actually have an
ATA-133 PCI controller card sitting around not doing anything but my BP6
doesn't want it to work in the PCI slot I want to put it in. I have a fan
sitting in my number one PCI slot to cool my video card. Removing it
causes my video to lock up and my system crash. My only other
available PCI slot, the very last one, doesn't function properly since I
haven't filled my PCI slots the way the board was designed to have them
filled. If anyone knows a simple fix to working around the PCI bus
architecture and can teach my how to mess around with my IRQ settings
so I can make my last PCI slot work withough a functioning device in my
first PCI slot that would be great. I'll look around on the rest of the forum
people who had had similar problems.


Thanks in advance again.

[Holodeck2]

Play with the placement of the cards shuffle them around and sometimes it does the trick

[bp6]

I have already tried all possibe combinations. The only time I have ever
gotten all of my PCI cards to function properly was by removing my video
card fan from PCI-1 and filling PCI-1 with a card. then everything works
until my video card over heats and freezes my machine.

Possible solutions.

1) Buy a new video card with a built in fan and take my fan out of my
PCI1 slot.

2) See how long my hard drives will last with the abusive HPT366
controller.

I'm curious however. In chapter 1 of the manual, page 4, ABIT talks
about how PCI slots 4 and 5 sharde the same bus master control signal.
And the PCI slot 3 shares IRQ signals with the HPT 366 controller. I'm
wondering if some bug in that design prevents me from using PCI-5
without filling PCI-1. Perhaps I will remove the PCI card that is in PCI-3
since the manual says that Win-NT will not allow the IRQ sharing that PCI
slot 3 requires for operation.


We will see. Thanks againg.

[bp6]

I have already tried all possibe combinations. The only time I have ever
gotten all of my PCI cards to function properly was by removing my video
card fan from PCI-1 and filling PCI-1 with a card. then everything works
until my video card over heats and freezes my machine.

Possible solutions.

1) Buy a new video card with a built in fan and take my fan out of my
PCI1 slot.

2) See how long my hard drives will last with the abusive HPT366
controller.

I'm curious however. In chapter 1 of the manual, page 4, ABIT talks
about how PCI slots 4 and 5 sharde the same bus master control signal.
And the PCI slot 3 shares IRQ signals with the HPT 366 controller. I'm
wondering if some bug in that design prevents me from using PCI-5
without filling PCI-1. Perhaps I will remove the PCI card that is in PCI-3
since the manual says that Win-NT will not allow the IRQ sharing that PCI
slot 3 requires for operation.


We will see. Thanks againg.

[bp6]

How come I can't delete that duplicate entry? In the bottom right hand side of my screen it says "You cannot delete your posts in this forum."

what's up with that?

[Dave Rave]

just edit the second entry, and delete all the text
replace it with
"oops"

[Holodeck2]

take out your fan out and redirect the airflow so it blows down on the cards, clears pci1 and cools all your cards,
just find some way to provide enough airflow to your vid card, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure that out