I am getting a "no device detected" and "BIOS Not Installed" message on boot, one beep.
I also get "No drive attached" Fastrack controlled The BIOS is not installed
I have tried booting with the motherboard support CD in the CD drive. I never get
to the place where I can load the default bios, either.
No drives in the raid configuration.
enhanced mode on (S-ata)
configure sata as raid (no)
onboard promise controller (disabled)
onboard ieee1394 controller (disabled)
speech post reporter (enabled)
report ide error (enabled)
report system booting (enabled)

(I swapped the hard drives from my old AMD 1800 running Windows XP Home NTFS
into the new system with 2 gigabytes of memory (4 x 512) PC3200 dual channel
400 mhz Winbond.)

Setup recognizes the devices and memory installed.
BIOS 1.00.0.27
AMIBIOS Version 8.00.09

What do I need to do?

Are you sure the motherboard can support that much RAM?

It supports according to the ASUS web page:
"Dual Channel Memory Architecture
-4 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 4GB PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 ECC/ Non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory
-Intel Performance Acceleration Technology"

Try Taking out the little Silver Battery. unpluging the power cord, wait like 5-10 mins, put it back in, and start up. I just had a problem like that. I had one beep, But i wouldnt even get display, so i jsut took out that battery and it loaded up defaults

I removed the battery as suggested. It did allow me to load the defaults when I tried to reboot later. the results were the same. I finally switched the sata cables from the sata connectors to the sata RAID connectors. When I booted, it was happy that I had devices connected and wanted me to configure the array.
I'm thinking since I switched from an AMD processor to an Intel processor, XP might not be happy. I might have to load a fresh copy of XP to my newly configured striped array a long with all of my applications. Time will tell.
Thanks for the help. ASUS hasn't replied to my emails as of yet.

Finally got the pc to boot successfully. I set the ide config to enhanced mode, enhanced mode support on to p-ata and config s-ata as raid to no. Onboard device config, onbo promise controller operating mode to ide. I was able to boot with the xp cd and do a repair install. the only thing left is to get it to recognize my modem. Network connections thinks I have a high speed lan and won't let me make a modem connection. I will verify that I have the onboard lan disabled.

quote garydona

I'm thinking since I switched from an AMD processor to an Intel processor, XP might not be happy.

Oh goodness, yes I would not advise using an OS install from such a different configuration. It's generally a good idea to do a fresh install anyway even if you're not making such a drastic change as switching from AMD to Intel + different motherboard (obviously, now that Socket 7 isn't really used these days)...

I just purchased, and installed a new system and I'm having the same problem. No device detected, and BIOS not installed even though it is. Everything is working, I even installed XP temp. and I am currently using it to write this message, so I'm assuming these errors have something to do with the RAID configuration. I have it set in BIOS for IDE not RAID but still get the errors. Can you please explain in detail how to fix this problem, its quite anoying!

Thanks,
Mark

This not only a problem on the P4C800-E dlx boards but also with other ASUS P4 boards
Just disable the BIOS update option in the BIOS settings and problem solved

This isnt a fault. This is the promise RAID chip enabled in BIOS. Unless you have to sata drives connected to the raid 1 and 2 sata ports supported by the Promise chip then on bootup it will search for drives connected not see any and come up with the message above. Either disable the Promise chip in the bios (and you wont see the message) or add 2 sata drives to the right connections and configure the sata (you'll get the searching message but in this case it will find the drives and load the bios.)

Hope this helps

James

i have disabled promise driver but my computer is still bluescreening , before i go into bios it says
Serial_Ch0 master no drive
Serial_Ch1 Master no drive...

ive only had this problem recently and have had the pc for around 2 months can anyone give me some advice/