Re: P4C800E-Deluxe: Disable "Fastrack"?

Onboard Raid or maybe its called Promise Raid
set to disabled in the bios


"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've got a couple of IDE DVD drives, but my system is on an SATA drive and
> all
> my data are on external USB2 drives.
>
> Every time the system boots, there's a sequence of events like:
> -------------------------------------------------
> "Fastrack 378 Bios....v1.010.0.37....." followed by a pause and a message
> like
> "...no drive attached to Fastrack controller. The Bios is not installed."
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Sounds to me like I could disable something-or-other and boot a little
> faster...
> but what and how?
>
> Wouldn't want to kill my system or DVDs.
>
> Been through Del=>Setup a couple times, but nothing jumped out at me.
>
> ?
>
> --
> PeteCresswell


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