Boot disk failure after bios update with highoint pci ide co

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I have a supermicro P3TDDE motherboard.
my system configuration si:

MB Supermicro P3TDDE http://www.supermicro.com/products/.../VIA/P3TDDE.cfm
CPU dual pIII 1,4GHZ
Video nvidia geforce4mx
Controller IDE PCI Highpoint Rocket133 http://www.highpoint-tech.com/
(on pci 1 solt)
4 optical drives on the motherboard ide controller
HD WD 80 GB on ide 1 of the Highpoint controller+ 2 WD 160GB on ide 1 and 2 of raid promise fastrack100 onboard controller

i 've installed an Highpoint Rocket133 Pci Ide controller to manage the boot disk(80GB). Two other Hard Disks(160GB) are installed on the onboard Promise Raid controller in mirroring. On the motherboard ide controller 4 optical drives are set.
All woked great but the promise controller didn't see the whole capacity of the two hard drives (160GB). To solve this issue i decided to update the motherboard bios with the beta one from supermicro site that is said to solve this prob .
There is now a greater problem : i have found no way to set a proper boot in the bios (your Highpoint manual says to set SCSI as first boot device but it doesn't work) that works for booting from the hard drive installed on the Highpoint pci controller. The boot from CD-Rom and Floppy seems the only one to work.
For example after the first step of windows2000/xp setup (after the copy of system files has finished)during which i install the Highpoint drivers, system reboots and should try to boot from the hard drive on the Highpoint controller but it doesn't succed and "boot disk failure...no boot disk" message is shown
If i disable the Promise ide raid onboard controller the correct boot from hard drive on Highpoint ide pci controller is restored. But i need to use this hardware configuration with the onboard Promise controller enabled

How can i do?

Thanks
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From Supermicro FAQ's:
When you flash the BIOS, you should have all the parameters at the back of the command awdflash filename.bin /py/wb/cd/sn/cc/r in order to flash the boot block of the BIOS.
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KURIAKI wrote:From Supermicro FAQ's:
When you flash the BIOS, you should have all the parameters at the back of the command awdflash filename.bin /py/wb/cd/sn/cc/r in order to flash the boot block of the BIOS.

do you mean that this can be the reason for i cannot boot from the hard drive attached to the ide pci Highpoint controller when the Promise ide raid onboard controller is enabled?
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FAQ number 14 for P3TDDE:

Question
I have a P3TDDE motherboard with a 200GB hard drive on it. Since the old BIOS cannot see more than 137GB, I downloaded the new BIOS that supports 48-bit addressing. Unfortunately, flashing the BIOS does not help.

Answer
When you flash the BIOS, you should have all the parameters at the back of the command awdflash filename.bin /py/wb/cd/sn/cc/r in order to flash the boot block of the BIOS.

For technical support, please send an email to support@supermicro.com.
More than 100,000 BIOS strings in my database just now!
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KURIAKI wrote:FAQ number 14 for P3TDDE:

Question
I have a P3TDDE motherboard with a 200GB hard drive on it. Since the old BIOS cannot see more than 137GB, I downloaded the new BIOS that supports 48-bit addressing. Unfortunately, flashing the BIOS does not help.

Answer
When you flash the BIOS, you should have all the parameters at the back of the command awdflash filename.bin /py/wb/cd/sn/cc/r in order to flash the boot block of the BIOS.

For technical support, please send an email to support@supermicro.com.

thaks for your advice and interest: i'll do so and let you know

thanks again anyway it will go
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i've trayed as you and supermicro suggested: I've flashed bios and boot blck with the command awdflash followed by the proper switches commands. Unfortunatelly the problem still persists. It is not possible to boot from the hard drive connected to the Highpoint ide pci controller when the onboard Promise ide raid controller is active. The desired boot is restored when the promise controller is disabled. I tryied also to set in the mainboard bios the scsi device(and all the others choices each times)as first boot device, disabled the second and third one, enabled the boot other device option. If i run the windows 2000/xp installatin cd no drive is found during the installation process only when the promise controller is enabled. The same result when i use the western digital tool to set hard drives: no drives are found.
The strange thing is that both the highponit controller and promise controller bios are seen during the bootstrap.
Flashing back the original bios i get the boot to work but the whole capacity of the drives on the promise raid controller is obviously not seen right (they are 160GB seen as 130GB) and the operating system can't manage more than 128GB even if the LBA 48bit support has been enablaed through the registry key introduction.

any ideas?
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KURIAKI wrote:I think Supermicro has the best support service:
http://supermicro.com/support/resources/

Supermicro can't solve the issue since don't support this motherboard anymore.
is there someone who makes bioses by request?
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More than 100,000 BIOS strings in my database just now!
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