Asus A7M266 IDE Channels Not Disabling?

[skotskmann]

I have the Asus A7M266 M/B with an Athlon XP 1600+ and for some odd reason,
in Windows 2000, it still reports the IDE channels as enabled. I've
disabled all references to IDE in the BIOS and they still show in W2K's
hardware device manager. I use SCSI so don't need it. What's more, USB
shows up too, even although I've disabled it?!

Does anyone else with an A7M266 get this?

:disgust:

 

[chizow]

That's odd, my old A7V133 allowed me to disable the IDE controllers. Did you try the jumper settings on the mobo? My A7V133 had jumpers to disable them, but I didn't need to. Asus boards seem to respond better in certain situations if you use the jumpers rather than the soft BIOS.

Chiz

 

[skotskmann]

There are jumper settings for this? I know there are jumpers for disabling the on-board sound, but didn't realize same for IDE? So you have them for the A7V266? Will check again. Problem is, there's nothing in the manual about this and to look at jumpers on the board doesn't say much.

I remember reading on LostCircuits review of the A7M266 that Asus has BIOS settings that do "nothing", they are display only. I'm getting the feeling the On-board sound and IDE disable are such settings.

Thanks.

 

[Buz2b]

Contrary to your beliefs, there are workable settings for disabling the IDE channels in the BIOS of the A7M266. What BIOS are you using? I use 1004A and you just go into the Main menu of the BIOS, togle down to the whichever IDE channel, press enter, then where you have the option for Auto, etc, just selct "none". This works fine with mine. I have the Primary slave disabled on mine. If you have done this, maybe it is Win2K's reporting function that is in error. Or maybe it is just reporting that you have the IDE channels, not that they are active or used.

 

[skotskmann]

Yes, it's these "workable" settings I've tried. I have the 1005 BIOS, have set all IDE channels to "none", and also the other option, "On-board IDE controller" to "disabled". I'm still puzzled why W2K is showing it. To me, if I disable IDE, I don't expect to see it in W2K, I also don't expect to see drivers loaded for it, if indeed it does show.

 

[skotskmann]

You are absolutely correct, it was the O.S. (silly me thinking Microsoft was correct and Asus wasn't). Check this out:

http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...bled&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

Thank you for the clue about the O.S. showing it and the fact it might not be active.

 

[Buz2b]

Interesting indeed, and a good guess on my part. Ha! Glad you got it figured out though. I have the same board and love it.