i am using the MSI K7N2G-ILSR motherboard which has an embedded Promise SATA raid controler with 2 SATA slots (Promise 20376 Serial ATA Interface).
Unfortunately, due to some incompatibility issues that onboard controller does not work together with my Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI controller card. Here's what happens when booting:
- the bios recognizes cpu, ram and my drives
- the bios of my pci takes over and regognizes the sata drives installed just fine
- the bios of the onboard promise controller takes over, starts scanning for drives and freezes, however ONLY when the pci card (see above) is installed.
As a result I have the feeling that excluding the onboard promise module from the motherboard bios might just do the trick. I have already investigated a bit using cbrom and I was able to identify the promise module as 376.NIC.
Here's what cbrom.exe /D outputs:
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******** W6570NMS.200 BIOS component ********
No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
=========================================================================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 1356Fh(77.36K) 6A61BM49.BIN
1. XGROUP CODE 0BBF0h(46.98K) 08175h(32.36K) awardext.rom
2. ACPI table 04857h(18.08K) 01B0Bh(6.76K) ACPITBL.BIN
3. YGROUP ROM 06440h(25.06K) 03DA5h(15.41K) awardeyt.rom
4. Other(4029:0000) 040E0h(16.22K) 01E73h(7.61K) _EN_CODE.BIN
5. Other(402A:0000) 08800h(34.00K) 00207h(0.51K) BGROUP.BIN
6. VGA ROM[1] 0DC00h(55.00K) 08F7Eh(35.87K) CR17NZ.ROM
7. LOGO BitMap 4B30Ch(300.76K) 01D66h(7.35K) LOGO.BMP
8. PCI driver[A] 10000h(64.00K) 07593h(29.39K) NV2PXE.NIC
9. PCI driver[B] 10000h(64.00K) 077A9h(29.92K) 376.NIC
10. EPA pattern 017ACh(5.92K) 001C9h(0.45K) Live2-1.BMP
Total compress code space = 5E000h(376.00K)
Total compressed code size = 3CBF7h(242.99K)
Remain compress code space = 21409h(133.01K)
Or will my motherboard not accept the new bios or complain about the promise module that has gone missing?
Or will I even shred my motherboard completely by replacing my bios by the modified version?
Or will my new bios just continue booting without the onboard controller startup sequence?
Thank you for your input!
Greetings
Bobby
