On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: >I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card >doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon >card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the screen, >then continues to POST. The system simply boots like the card isn't there. >As long as you can boot from another device, the card is happily recognized >and works flawlessly once an OS is running. I've looked into resetting the >configuration on the card, etc... I just think in this case the card may be >a lower end card used for secondary addon storage only without the option >to boot... Have you tried pressing ctrl-A when the Adaptec display appears in the boot process? It's been a while since I looked at the Adaptec SCSI BIOS settings, but I know there's an setting to suppress the ctrl-A prompt on booting. I never changed it, but always ass*u*me*d that turning this off would still allow one to enter the BIOS settings without the prompt. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Government is the great fiction, through which everbody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat