SCSI problem- Unable to install NT4!

[gdonovan 0]

Background- I have an original Quantum3D Heavy Metal Mercury system sporting a Intel GX+ motherboard (dual P3-450 with 512 ECC ram) with built in Adaptec 7896 controller, connected hard drive is a Quantum 8 gig.

 

I am utterly unable to install NT4 but can install Win95, Win98SE and Win2000pro!

 

If I install Win95 first, copy the NT4 I386 folder to the hard drive, run the NT4 install program and reboot the machine it crashes shortly after choosing "boot to NT4" during hardware detection.

 

If I install off an NT4 boot cd-rom or floppys, give it the drivers for the scsi adapter on floppy it detects the adaptec controller but states no drives are present even though they are present in the adaptec bios and of course Win95/98/2000 has no problem with them either.

 

I have tried 4 different versions of the Adaptec drivers (3.02, 3.03 303a and 304) all with the same results.

 

If I hook up an IDE drive the NT install goes perfect of course but I wish to have the machine run off SCSI as it was shipped from Quantum3D.

 

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm utterly baffled.

 

[gdonovan 0]

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Only thing I can think of offhand? The drivers... they ARE NT 4.0 capable/certified, correct??

APK

Drivers 303 are direct from Intel, 303a are from Win2000Pro and 304 are from Gateway. All are the correct NT4 drivers for the Adaptec chipset.

[gdonovan 0]

I'm going to try setting up everything on an ide drive and ghosting it over, what do I have to lose? Already wizzed away 4 days as it is.

[gdonovan 0]

Ghosting the drive over worked perfect-

 

I installed NT on the IDE drive, then installed the SCSI drivers and made sure NT could see the SCSI drive, shut down and rebooted off a Win98 floppy, then used Ghost to copy the partiton from the IDE to SCSI and then shut down and disconnected the IDE drive.

 

The machine re-booted and ran without a hitch.

 

Strange huh?