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Abit BH6 - Boot From CD?

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First post, by tincup

Posted on 2020-06-17, 18:12

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I've had no luck booting my trusty Acronis 8 recovery CD on an Abit BH6 build. It's the 1.02 board version with final 'SS' bios. I've read similar CD boot reports online about trouble booting from CD with this board from years back. The typical reccommendations were to make sure the CDR was set to AUTO in bios, the CDR set as master on it's IDE channel, and of course the CDR first in the boot sequence. No luck in any configuration I've tried so far - even with the CDR as the *only* device connected. At POST it shows it's trying to 'Boot ATAPI-CD-ROM' but after 30s or so it times out. The CD boots off of other retro machines. I don't have another CDR handy to check if it's the drive - but it's working fine in every other respect.

Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 4, by zPacKRat

Posted on 2020-06-17, 19:24

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If you have a floppy you could try a win98 startup disk and load the cd rom drivers and see if you browse the disk.

Reply 2 of 4, by red-ray

Posted on 2020-06-17, 19:26

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Which IDE header is it connected to? The manual says a below:

NOTE HPT 366 IDE controller is designed to support high-speed mass storage. Thus we don’t suggest you connect non-disk devices that use ATA/ATAPI interfaces, such as CD-ROM to HPT 366 IDE connector (IDE3&IDE4).

Oops, by mistake I was looking in the BP6 manual

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Reply 3 of 4, by zPacKRat

Posted on 2020-06-17, 22:04

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red-ray wrote on 2020-06-17, 19:26:

Which IDE header is it connected to? The manual says a below:

NOTE HPT 366 IDE controller is designed to support high-speed mass storage. Thus we don’t suggest you connect non-disk devices that use ATA/ATAPI interfaces, such as CD-ROM to HPT 366 IDE connector (IDE3&IDE4).

He's asking about a BH6, not a BE6, no highpoint controller on his board for that to be a concern.

Reply 4 of 4, by tincup

Posted on 2020-06-17, 23:40

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zPacKRat wrote on 2020-06-17, 22:04:

red-ray wrote on 2020-06-17, 19:26:

Which IDE header is it connected to? The manual says a below:

NOTE HPT 366 IDE controller is designed to support high-speed mass storage. Thus we don’t suggest you connect non-disk devices that use ATA/ATAPI interfaces, such as CD-ROM to HPT 366 IDE connector (IDE3&IDE4).

He's asking about a BH6, not a BE6, no highpoint controller on his board for that to be a concern.

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