error message " no controller found"

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I recently upgraded my motherboard, from an old motherboard that had Highpoint ATA Raid on it to a new motherboard that has SiliconImage SATA Raid. When I installed the drivers, I got a "no contoller found" error message. When I tried to manually load the drivers from the install disk, it gave me a error in hardware. Do I have to uninstall the old RAID in order to correct this problem?

 

[Jim Macklin]

Do you have ATA hard drives or still using IDE or SCSI
drives?

Did the new mobo come with a driver install CD?


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| I recently upgraded my motherboard, from an old
motherboard that had Highpoint ATA Raid on it to a new
motherboard that has SiliconImage SATA Raid. When I
installed the drivers, I got a "no contoller found" error
message. When I tried to manually load the drivers from the
install disk, it gave me a error in hardware. Do I have to
uninstall the old RAID in order to correct this problem?

 

[S.Heenan]

I recently upgraded my motherboard, from an old motherboard that had
Highpoint ATA Raid on it to a new motherboard that has SiliconImage
SATA Raid. When I installed the drivers, I got a "no contoller
found" error message. When I tried to manually load the drivers from
the install disk, it gave me a error in hardware. Do I have to
uninstall the old RAID in order to correct this problem?

Create the RAID array first of all. During the ten seconds of Windows
installation you will be prompted to press F6 to add SCSI or RAID drivers.
Copy the Silicon Image SATA drivers from the driver CD to the floppy. Omit
any .pdf files, if present. Insert the floppy when prompted. Now Windows can
see your hard drive(s).

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Darrell.

Is your computer now booting (or attempting) from SATA? For secondary HDs,
controller drivers can be installed in the "normal" way, but if SATA is to
be used for the boot device, then the drivers have to be integrated into
WinXP during Setup. This was a frequent problem in the early days of Win2K
because a wave of new HDs and controllers came to market right after Win2K
debuted and drivers for them were not on the Win2K CD-ROM; they had to be
added from a floppy diskette during Setup. Many more drivers are on the
WinXP CD-ROM and we've not had to add them from floppies when installing
WinXP - until SATA came along.

I haven't actually used either RAID or SATA (the HighPoint RAID connectors
on my motherboard are being used only as non-RAID ATA-133 channels while I
normally boot from a SCSI drive), but I suspect that the old procedure is
still required for WinXP to be able to boot from SATA. If not, you can
ignore the rest of this post. ;^}

With the SATA drivers at hand on a floppy, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and
run Setup. When the line of white-on-black bars appears onscreen, you
should see a bottom line that says to press F6 if you need to install
third-party drivers. Press F6 quickly; the message won't stay there long.
Setup will continue for a long time, then it will stop with instructions
telling how to use that floppy to install the drivers. After this, Setup
should complete the installation.

Since this is not a new installation of WinXP, you probably have lots of
applications and data on your HD. To preserve these, use Microsoft's
instructions for an "in-place upgrade" (KB Article 315341), and be sure to
visit Windows Update as soon as you have your firewall and antivirus back in
place.

Of course, you probably need to be sure SATA is properly activated in your
BIOS, too.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

I recently upgraded my motherboard, from an old motherboard that had

Highpoint ATA Raid on it to a new motherboard that has SiliconImage SATA
Raid. When I installed the drivers, I got a "no contoller found" error
message. When I tried to manually load the drivers from the install disk,
it gave me a error in hardware. Do I have to uninstall the old RAID in order
to correct this problem?