Hard Drive problems

[Maleko]

Ok, so Ive finally set up my Raid on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board

RAID0 with x2 WD 80GB

Set the RAID up no probs.

Also in my system I hae installed a Multi IO card, ith USB's, one IDE channel, and one SATA channel.

On the SATA channel i have my old 200GB WD attached (which was my old main drive)

Now, when i connect the 200GB to the IO card, after it detects, and tries to boot from cdrom, it freezs...

Disconnect the drive from the IO card and it boots to windows set-up no probs.

So, faulty IO card? yet it does detect the drive on sata detection.

Or does my system not support 3 SATA drives???

Any ideas?

[nmX.Memnoch]

The number of drives supported is directly related to the number of SATA channels you have. So if you have two on your motherboard and then put in an add-in card with another four SATA channels then the total number your system can support is 6.

Does the system POST but hangs trying to start Windows Setup? Also, who is the manufacturer of the Multi-IO card. I never really cared for cards like that because the usually mean cheap parts...and by "cheap" I mean substandard.

[Maleko]

The card is:

http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=17&pid=477

The system posts fine, goes to boot from cdrom and then freezes doesnt even say press any key to boot from cdrom

Now, heres the thing i've found out.

I took the card out, and it all worked, booted into windows set up no probs (havin probs with setup, in nLITE forums! lol)

Im hoping that wen windows is installed i can put the card back in and it will work...im guessing its a conflict during setup boot.

[nmX.Memnoch]

Im hoping that wen windows is installed i can put the card back in and it will work...im guessing its a conflict during setup boot.

I've had that happen before. More than likely it will work. Even if it doesn't at least you can get your system installed and then troubleshoot the problem afterwards.

Edited March 24, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch

[Maleko]

Yeh, i had problems with the card wen i first had it, i had to change the boot sequence from SATA, SCSI, to SCSI, SATA

Weird, lol

just gtta get my widnows install workign now!