Help with Promise SATA300 TX4 controller

[maxse]

Guys I need some help please.
I have an old Epox ERDA+-Pro Socket A mobo.

I have used up both the onboard SATA connectors and one PATA on hard drives and I wanted to add more...

I bought a Promise SATA300TX4 controller without raid to just be able to add more drives. But for some reason my computer will not boot!

It is stuck at the "IDE BUS MASTER ENABLED" message and will NOT boot. It does detect the hard drive on the controller beforehand though but just gets stuck at this screen and will not move no matter what!

Any ideas? I just can't seem to get this thing to work! Oh and also after resetting the computer a bunch of times once I got a message for the controller saying "No BIOS installed." I would really appreciate if someone could help me out pelase.

And the error code that the mobo gives me is 94 while it is stuck in this screen if that matters. TIA.

Also I just realized that if I disconnect the hard drives from the Promise card and just leave the card in the PCI I get a message saying
"NO DEVICE IS FOUND" "BIOS IS NOT INSTALLED" What does this mean?? Did newegg send me some defective card without a bios on it or something???

 

[wacky7]

i think you need to unplug that card and check Bios for any boot master or S.M.A.R.T is on. and few other things on your Bios to in sure its not messing with that card go back and forth pluging and unplug to see if anything does messing with the IDE boot with that card i think you might have to put your master SATA hard drive on to that PCI Promise SATA300TX4 slot not sure even though the Bios on that PCI Promise SATA300TX4 seam like it trying to boot as master i think you need to make that card disable for master boot and make it run non master boot. alsot make sure your other drives are unplug from the motherboard,if that your problems if not,, then i would take it back befor 30days hope no restocking fee kinda have to play with them been trying to get it to work and get aother if what you have from newegg.

 

[maxse]

thanks. What sucks is I dont really have time to play with this for a while. It is for my parents and I am leaving soon...

I can not plug in the master drive into it because it is PATA... It is not set to boot as the master drive.

 

[shadowwyvern]

I can tell you that the two promise cards that i have give the "NO BIOS INSTALLED!" message when they have no drives connected, so that might not be your problem. Make sure the boot order for your hard drives is correct in the system BIOS. Does your IDE controller behave differently w/o this card installed? (IE does it reports what drives it sees or something? If you have not jumpered all devices on the IDE chain, do that accordingly, just to rule that out.