P4C800-E Deluxe and PCI Serial ATA card

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Darren M Taylor

I have a P4C800E deluxe mobo with P4 2.8
Attached I have DVD Writer, CD Writer and DVD Rom drives
Also have 2* IDE PATA 120Gb HDD's which are spanned (1Volume)
PLUS I have 4 * 250GB SATA (NOT RAID) drives all connected to the mobo SATA
ports.
I wanted to add a further internal 300GB SATA Drive and an external SATA
drive in a SATA/USB2 enclosure.
So i bought a PCI SATA card with 1 internal and 1 external connectors.

HOWEVER, with the PCI SATA card installed the PC wont boot.
Is this because i simply CANNOT add any further SATA ports?

Any help much appreciated.

TIA

Darren
 
Darren M Taylor said:
I have a P4C800E deluxe mobo with P4 2.8
Attached I have DVD Writer, CD Writer and DVD Rom drives
Also have 2* IDE PATA 120Gb HDD's which are spanned (1Volume)
PLUS I have 4 * 250GB SATA (NOT RAID) drives all connected to the mobo SATA
ports.
I wanted to add a further internal 300GB SATA Drive and an external SATA
drive in a SATA/USB2 enclosure.
So i bought a PCI SATA card with 1 internal and 1 external connectors.

HOWEVER, with the PCI SATA card installed the PC wont boot.
Is this because i simply CANNOT add any further SATA ports?
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Check BIOS settings for the Boot Configuration. Most likely the order gets
screwed up now that you have another controller installed.

Might also try the card in a different PCI slot.
 
I have a second Promise Sata controler running with this mobo
With 4 x IDE dvd/cdrom on first onboard ide controler
2 x IDE HD on second onboard ide controler
4 x Sata HD on onboard sata promise controler
and 1 x sata HD on pci sata promise controler

Upgrade your bios to version 1017 !!
previous versions have problems with the bootconfiguration
With previous versions, everytime when you add a HD or controler the
bootconfiguration screwed up

Suc6, Martin Zijlstra
 
I have BIOS version 1017 already installed.
I checked the boot configuration, but as I had not actually even installed
any drives on the controller, there was nothing to change. and no reference
to the pci card.....


????
 
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