I have a PC system based around an AsRock PT880 P4V88 motherboard driven by an Intel Pentium 4 cpu running at 3.00 GHz. The motherboard BIOS version is P1.70
There is 2GB of DDR DIMM unbuffered memory and an Nvidia AGP video card.
The system uses an XP Professional with SP3 Microsoft operating system.
There are two IDE HDDs - a 160GB master drive and a 500GB data drive.
There are also two DVD/CD drives as slaves to the IDE HDDs.
I do not have the CD that should have been supplied when I bought the PC some years ago, but I do have all the VIA drivers that are available from the AsRock website.
I have purchased two Samsung HD204UI 2TB SATA HDDs and want to install these as part of my system. Appropriate cables were obtained and I fitted one drive and made the required connections, ran the VIA SATA Raid driver install program and expected that all would be well.
This was not so and although the drive did spin up, it was not recognised by the Windows software as a viable drive. Looking in the Device Manager I could see an entry for SCSI and Raid Controllers and this was open with a sub heading VIA SATA RAID Controller which had a yellow exclamation mark against it.
Opening the VIA SATA RAID Controller showed a Device Status box which had the following comment 'This device cannot start. (Code 10)' followed by an invitation to start the troubleshooter which I did. This invited me to delete the 'VIA SATA RAID Controller' entry and use the hardware detection system to find the SATA Drive, which I did and was rewarded with a detection of the hardware and a reinstallation of the driver which I had just deleted. After I had tried this a couple of times with variations including trying the other drive, I shut down the system and disconnected the drive before restarting. Upon examining the Device Manager I could see an entry for SCSI and Raid Controllers and opening this showed the VIA SATA RAID Controller fully working and apparently doing what it should be doing. Hot plugging the SATA drive which is supposed to be possible, froze the system except for a couple of seconds every couple of minutes whilst hot unplugging the drive restored operation as previously. I next fitted a jumper to halve the data rate as per the Samsung blurb but this had no observable effect. I have now spent two days messing about with this problem and have run out of ideas. It seems that the driver or BIOS has got problems but haw do I tell and where can I go from here. Any ideas or advice at all would be welcome. Since I don't intend to move my operating system onto either of the SATA
drives I haven't tried the floppy boot disk method but do have the driver for this.
There is 2GB of DDR DIMM unbuffered memory and an Nvidia AGP video card.
The system uses an XP Professional with SP3 Microsoft operating system.
There are two IDE HDDs - a 160GB master drive and a 500GB data drive.
There are also two DVD/CD drives as slaves to the IDE HDDs.
I do not have the CD that should have been supplied when I bought the PC some years ago, but I do have all the VIA drivers that are available from the AsRock website.
I have purchased two Samsung HD204UI 2TB SATA HDDs and want to install these as part of my system. Appropriate cables were obtained and I fitted one drive and made the required connections, ran the VIA SATA Raid driver install program and expected that all would be well.
This was not so and although the drive did spin up, it was not recognised by the Windows software as a viable drive. Looking in the Device Manager I could see an entry for SCSI and Raid Controllers and this was open with a sub heading VIA SATA RAID Controller which had a yellow exclamation mark against it.
Opening the VIA SATA RAID Controller showed a Device Status box which had the following comment 'This device cannot start. (Code 10)' followed by an invitation to start the troubleshooter which I did. This invited me to delete the 'VIA SATA RAID Controller' entry and use the hardware detection system to find the SATA Drive, which I did and was rewarded with a detection of the hardware and a reinstallation of the driver which I had just deleted. After I had tried this a couple of times with variations including trying the other drive, I shut down the system and disconnected the drive before restarting. Upon examining the Device Manager I could see an entry for SCSI and Raid Controllers and opening this showed the VIA SATA RAID Controller fully working and apparently doing what it should be doing. Hot plugging the SATA drive which is supposed to be possible, froze the system except for a couple of seconds every couple of minutes whilst hot unplugging the drive restored operation as previously. I next fitted a jumper to halve the data rate as per the Samsung blurb but this had no observable effect. I have now spent two days messing about with this problem and have run out of ideas. It seems that the driver or BIOS has got problems but haw do I tell and where can I go from here. Any ideas or advice at all would be welcome. Since I don't intend to move my operating system onto either of the SATA
drives I haven't tried the floppy boot disk method but do have the driver for this.
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