Upgrading to WIN XP on an Abit BE6
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From: mjvclv on 20 Feb 2007 07:39 Hi, Lots of useful stuff here - but with ' bottom of the range imtermediate' proficciency, can anyone give me some straight talking advice on how to over come this and can it be cover come. To summarise...i am trying to uprage my fathers PC from Win98 to WinXP. He has the Abit BE6 motherboard. The XP checker runnig through 98 suggests the Highpoint 366 DMA controller is 'blocking' the XP install. If i install through DOS, XP falls over and give the BSOD. I have HPT366 driver version 4.0 - which correlates to Ver1.25.1. I cannot find any other drivers - the ABIT and Highpoint websites dont list anything for the BE6 board anoymore and i cannot get to Tom Geery's ftp site - is it still running?? I have the AWARD BIOS ver NU. If i were to install XP onto the HDD by placing the HDD into my PC (removing mine) and then replacing it into the BE6, would this work? Many thanks Mike ps - the main thing i need to know is can this be overcome or should i be ditching the PC and starting again?
From: fondue on 20 Feb 2007 10:36 "mjvclv" <no(a)spam.invalid> wrote in message news:12tlr0884j87l1a(a)news.supernews.com... > Hi, > > Lots of useful stuff here - but with ' bottom of the range > imtermediate' proficciency, can anyone give me some straight talking > advice on how to over come this and can it be cover come. > > To summarise...i am trying to uprage my fathers PC from Win98 to > WinXP. > He has the Abit BE6 motherboard. The XP checker runnig through 98 > suggests the Highpoint 366 DMA controller is 'blocking' the XP > install. If i install through DOS, XP falls over and give the BSOD. What exactly do you mean, "through DOS"?. Do you mean booting from the CDROM, or booting from floppy, then running setup? > > > I have HPT366 driver version 4.0 - which correlates to Ver1.25.1. I > cannot find any other drivers - For which OS? > > I have the AWARD BIOS ver NU. Get latest from Abit site, it is still available. > > If i were to install XP onto the HDD by placing the HDD into my PC > (removing mine) and then replacing it into the BE6, would this work? Possibly, but messy. I'm pretty sure I have loaded XP onto a BE6. You probably don't need the Highpoint drivers if you just use IDE1 The two black IDE connectors on the board are IDE 1 and 2. If you look closely at the board you will see them numbered. The white ones are 3 and 4, these are the Highpoint ones. I would suggest you use IDE 1, you can always move it to IDE 3 later, after you install the drivers through windows. If you get a BSOD, you might try extracting the driver files to the root of a floppy, and pushing F6 when setup starts, (there will be a short message at the bottom of the screen). At some point you will be asked to specify other storage controllers, here is where you install the Highpoint drivers. These are NT4 / Win2000 Hightpoint drivers, but they should work for XP. <ftp://ftp-usa.abit.com.tw/pub/download/driver2/hpt366/HPT366_2kxp.exe> I would suggest a clean install. Booting from the XP CDROM, rather than trying to upgrade through Win98. As I recall, many people had performance issues using UDMA66 HDDs on the Highpoint drivers, that is the performance wasn't that great, so it might not be worthwhile using them - you will just need to test with your HDD.
From: mjvclv on 21 Feb 2007 23:04
Thanks for the reply After 18 hours of trying various thing i have got it to work I NOW HAVE WIN XP ON MY BE6 MOTHERBOARD - your approach was more or less what i did: inside Win98 on the PC i flashed the BIOS to version TH (the latest from ABIT http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/bios/be6.htm Then i clean installed XP, pressing the F6 to enable me to install the latest HPT366 drivers (ver 1.30) http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/driver/model/be6.php All this was achieved with my HDD on IDE4 going via the HPT DMA controller. Wow. Your last comment... "As I recall, many people had performance issues using UDMA66 HDDs on the Highpoint drivers, that is the performance wasn't that great, so it might not be worthwhile using them - you will just need to test with your HDD. " ...what does this mean? Thanks |