I have a dual Pentium III 1000EB system built on a RioWorks motherboard with the Apollo Pro 133A chipset. I wanted to experiment with SCSI, so I installed an Adaptec 29320A controller card and a 300GB Ultra320 15k RPM hard drive. These components in this system make no sense at all, and yet it pretty much works; I can install Windows 2000 or XP onto the SCSI drive and boot from it without issues.

However, there are two pieces of software that do have issues. One is CPU-Z 1.98, which is unable to load: the entire system instantly freezes once CPU-Z gets to the "Storage" phase of hardware probing. (Strangely, there is no documented way to disable this phase.) The other is Daemon Tools 3.47: something about the virtual SCSI driver it installs prevents the system from booting, and the Windows splash screen just scrolls forever. What troubleshooting steps should I try?