I've got 5 hard drives / 1 DVD drive hooked up to Intel ICH10r, but I needed to hook up another 3 Sata drives to the system. So I took my Highpoint RocketRaid 2300 PCI-e 4 port SataII hard drive controller from my A8N-SLI Deluxe board and plugged it into the EP45-DS3R.
If I have no drives attached to the RocketRaid everything boots up fine (Gigabyte bios does it's thing, then RocketRaid bios, then Vista loads). As soon as I add even 1 drive to the RocketRaid card, Gigabyte bios does it's thing, then RocketRaid bios does it's thing and then I get a blinking cursor sitting on a black screen.
The strange thing is that even if I hit F2 (or delete, can't remember), the system will NOT go into the Gigabyte bios after the RocketRaid bios does it's thing. It will just sit there with a blinking cursor on a black screen.
Please note, on my A8N-SLI Deluxe it will work whether there are 0, 1 or even 4 drives attached.
My bios boot configuration is is configured to the correct boot drive on the ICH10r. Oh and I do have the PCI-e bus locked at 100MHZ. Remember that the system boots correctly with no drives attached but as soon as I add drives, nada.
Anyone got any ideas? Thinking it's some kind of IRQ problem that doesn't happen unless drives are attached to the Rocketraid controller. Thanks ahead of time for any input I receive. :)
System Specs
Gigabyte EP45-DS3R
Intel Q6600
G-Skill 8500 4GB
PC&C Silencer 750
Vista Ultimate 64
etc...
If I have no drives attached to the RocketRaid everything boots up fine (Gigabyte bios does it's thing, then RocketRaid bios, then Vista loads). As soon as I add even 1 drive to the RocketRaid card, Gigabyte bios does it's thing, then RocketRaid bios does it's thing and then I get a blinking cursor sitting on a black screen.
The strange thing is that even if I hit F2 (or delete, can't remember), the system will NOT go into the Gigabyte bios after the RocketRaid bios does it's thing. It will just sit there with a blinking cursor on a black screen.
Please note, on my A8N-SLI Deluxe it will work whether there are 0, 1 or even 4 drives attached.
My bios boot configuration is is configured to the correct boot drive on the ICH10r. Oh and I do have the PCI-e bus locked at 100MHZ. Remember that the system boots correctly with no drives attached but as soon as I add drives, nada.
Anyone got any ideas? Thinking it's some kind of IRQ problem that doesn't happen unless drives are attached to the Rocketraid controller. Thanks ahead of time for any input I receive. :)
System Specs
Gigabyte EP45-DS3R
Intel Q6600
G-Skill 8500 4GB
PC&C Silencer 750
Vista Ultimate 64
etc...
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