K8WE scsi not working

[logic28]

Hi guys,

I have finally kicked my K8WE into action today after several issues like memory and PSU choice.

BIOS: 1.01
RAM: KVR400S4R3A/512 x 2
PSU: Silverstone ST65ZF
CPU: AMD 248 x 2

It is working but …the SCSI controller doesn’t seem to find any of the connected drives.

I have tried the same drives driven by an old Adaptec 2940 Controller card placed in slot 2 (33 MHz) and they work fine.

Tyan doesn’t tell you this before you buy it but the onboard SCSI controller runs off the 100 MHZ PCI-X bus.

I wonder if this has anything to do with my problem.

The manual doesn’t incorporate any information about the SCSI controller (a bit poor for a 640 Euro mobo) so I am hoping that someone smarter than me may have some suggestions.

This is my first experience on a workstation mobo so please bear with me if I am not too familiar with some of the BIOS / mobo settings.

Thank you all

Maz

 

[movax]

You might have better luck posting in the Multiprocessing Systems forum, since the K8WE is a multi-cpu board (and there are a bunch of K8WE users). But as for your problem...is your BIOS revision the most recent? A lot of issues were corrected with newer BIOSes.

 

[logic28]

Thanks for the tip, I have moved my thread!!

This mobo has just arrived and I can tell it’s a recent one as they have removed the 6 way Sli power socket on the latest ones. So, how could they supply a mobo with Scsi and the wrong bios?? Sounds strange ….. but I’ll investigate it.

Thanks