It might be best to have the OS installed already using IDE 1 as well as having minimal IDE devices installed. Or if you have trouble you can fall back to this.
Use the right HDD ribbon cable (80 lead as opposed to 40 for UDMA 33) and be sure to use the right connectors as explained in the manual. Blue end to the motherboard and the black end to the master HDD.
Make sure the HDD is switched to Mode 4 using the maker's software. If one of
the new Mode 5's switch it to mode 4!
Enable the HPT Controller in the BIOS.
Change the "Second Boot Device" to "UDMA 66" in the BIOS. "First Boot Device" should be the floppy for a normal installation. Do not have HDD 0 (IDE 1 or 2) in the sequence as this could cause trouble. Another "floppy" will do for the third boot device even if you just have one floppy drive.
Enter the HPT BIOS with Ctrl/H and select Mode 4. It's probably already selected.
When the OS finds "mass storage devices" load the latest HPT drivers from a floppy.
Check Device Manager for "!'s" after a successful OS install or HPT conversion. Make sure 2 "SCSI controllers" (mass storage devices, HPT drivers for the IDE's 3 & 4) are listed.
Install the PCI Bridge drivers from the Abit CD or get Intel's latest.
From: M. Joel Guerra
I had absolutely no trouble installing my post-recall WD205AA directly on
IDE 3. But this might be due to carefully avoiding IRQ and DMA trouble
with my system. No card is in slot 3, for example. SB Live sound card in
slot 4, SOHOWare NIC in slot 2. TNT2 Ultra AGP. I booted directly from
the Windows 98SE CD and installed the OS, totally ignorant of the troubles
others were having. I did have to force the install of drivers for the
hardware cards, and I only installed the bare-bones driver for the
SoundBlaster. I also flashed the BIOS, upgrading (after a full install) to
PO from (I think) the original NP in order to get support for the CDROM on
IDE 1.
