IDE controller help!!!!!!
Hi folks,
Can anyone point me in the direction of a SIS PCI IDE controller fro my 745 ultra MOBO?
Thanks
Quade
I know of no discrete PCI IDE Controller IC made by SIS for add-in PCI cards.
A few major names in IDE Controller cards are Highpoint, Promise Technology, and SIIG.
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I am back here after a long long time Now a days, I run a Intel 965P based Core 2 Duo as my primary desktop. I still use my AMD64 platform and I did fix all the issues with it!
Sorry, I didn't update this thread earlier with the details of how I had solved those issues...
Well, initially I could not get my Radeon 9600XT to work on the nforce 3. I dirched it and got a 7600GT and that solved the GFX crashes..
The HDD problem (the one that I described in this thread) was fixed by:
1. Using the SATA ports 3 & 4 instead of SATA1 & 2!!!
Apparently, the issue of the cyclic reboot & the faded XP logo crash during reboot happens with a lot of Nforce 3 250 owners.
Using the other set of SATA ports fixes this for good...
I also replaced the 40GB Seagate ... But that wasn't the cause of this issue, because the cyclic reboot recurred with the remaining HDDs when SATA1 & 2 were in use...
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Hey folks,
I've posted before and had received very good advice, so I'd like to pick your brains one more time.
I recently purchased a semi-working MDD 2003 model (I'm fairly sure.) with all stock parts and two third party ram sticks.
The seller explained the problem in the e-mail he sent me:
"The machine was working perfectly up until a few days ago after I had installed a 2nd hard drive for the purposes of recovering it's contents, and then removed that drive.
The initial problem started with a kernel panic, and then ended up in the machine not being able to complete a boot (starts up ok but ends always in the Prohibit/Stop sign). I cannot boot from either the HD or the CD-Rom - I can however, boot the drive in Target Disk mode, and verified the HD is in good working order via Disk Warrior and Disk Utility.
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Apple thinks it is possibly a faulty IDE controller, or something that got reset incorrectly in terms of the bus chain."
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The HD was placed in the rear sled first as a master drive, ribbon cable was double checked then system booted up. Well the grey screen and apple appear, along with the spinning cart wheel and this goes on for several minutes. Then the apple is replaced by the white circle with a bar through it, the "prohibit sign". So I then switched ribbons with the one in front, and got the same thing. This process was then done over using the front HD sled, still to no avail. I guess I could possibly avoid all of this by buying a PCI controller or just replacing the logicboard, but I'm trying to avoid those two options right now if possible.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Can this even be resolved? I know there are posts about bad IDE controllers, but they really didn't help much. I did a search and ended up getting quotes from the same three or four posts, so I'm pretty much up for anything as this is getting beyond me.
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OSX installed.
Ah....that actually may be the source of the problem, depending on what machine your drive came from.
Sometimes you can get away with it, as I did when I moved drives from a single 867 to a dual 1.42.
But...
It is possible your machines are too different, and the lower level things required to startup the system do not exist on the installation on your drive.
At this point I think that getting a pci controller
card to see if it works is easiest.
If my preceeding statement is true, then it is likely that will not work, either.
Thank you though.
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Yes i have windows 7 with a DC7800 CMT and i put in a IDE controller card The IDE Controller card..i put it in my PCI slot and hooked up the ide card to the card and my hard drive and put the 4 pin power cord into the hard drive..i know the hard drive is getting power but it is not showing up in the hard drive secotion of my computer..i have the jumper set to slave since i have a main SATA hard drive as the main hard drive..im using the IDE as a slave for more space..anyone can help that would be great! Thanks
Why IDE hard drive would be my first question, but your needs might outweigh me asking. There is no Master with SATA. A single EIDE/IDE drive is a Master on the cabling. Here is a link to the proper master/slave issue and the location of such drives on the cabling.
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Solaris 8 x86: How to install on disk connected via IDE controller
I have a PC with a Pentium 4 processor and the following IDE disks:
Disk 1 and 2 at the primary IDE bus.
Disk 3 connected via Promise Ultra 133 IDE controller.
I want to install Solaris 8 Intel x86 edition on Disk 3, but the installation
program only lists disks 1 and 2 as locations for install.
Is there any method how to get Solaris 8 installed on Disk 3?
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ThomasHello Michael,
thanks for the information.
There is no support for the Promise Ultra 133 IDE controller listed.
Also, searching the internet for a private developed driver was not
successful.
Anyway, I have tried to make a test installation on a hard disk
connected to the primary IDE controller and I detected a lot of
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missing or not properly identified drivers.
So I think I have to make further investigations on concepts
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Solaris 8 x86: Installation on disk connected via IDE controller
I have a PC with a Pentium 4 processor and the following IDE disks:
Disk 1 and 2 at the primary IDE bus.
Disk 3 connected via Promise Ultra 133 IDE controller.
I want to install Solaris 8 Intel x86 edition on Disk 3, but the installation
program only lists disks 1 and 2 as locations for install.
Is there any method how to get Solaris 8 installed on Disk 3?
Thank you very much for your help!Hello Michael,
thanks for the information.
There is no support for the Promise Ultra 133 IDE controller listed.
Also, searching the internet for a private developed driver was not
successful.
Anyway, I have tried to make a test installation on a hard disk
connected to the primary IDE controller and I detected a lot of
further installation problems with my equipments because of
missing or not properly identified drivers.
So I think I have to make further investigations on concepts
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I've never had a problem with it before and I have both Leopard and a Windows partition. The thing is that the other day I ran an antivirus at my Windows XP partition and now it doesn't detect the IDE controller. At the device manager I get a yellow exclamation mark and when I try to install it says that it doesn't exist. The thing is that I know that I had two devices for that but now there's only one and with the exclamation mark.
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No it just started one day taking along time to access disk then i started getting bad block messages,
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K9vgm-v problem with pci ide controller card
My problem is with a promise ultra100 tx2 pci ide controller card that I got with a western digital hard drive a year or 2 back. I can plug the card in with no hard drives attached to it, boot into windows, update the drivers, etc. but when I plug either of my hard drives into the card, it goes to a black screen directly after the screen the promise controller brings up after the main msi bios screen.
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-Windows XP Pro SP2"My problem is with a promise ultra100 tx2 pci ide controller card that I got with a western digital hard drive a year or 2 back. I can plug the card in with no hard drives attached to it, boot into windows, update the drivers, etc. but when I plug either of my hard drives into the card, it goes to a black screen directly after the screen the promise controller brings up after the main msi bios screen."
That means reboot cycle?
Have you tried with more powerfull PSU?
"P.S. - is there any way to get this board to boot from a USB key? My only options in the bios for booting to USB are USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, and USB-CDROM."
USB-FDD, USB-ZIP or in HDD area.. depend how will be detected your USB key.
"It's my understanding that this problem is caused because the ide controller card can't inject its bios into the option rom of the motherboard. I've tried disabling as many other features that I can in the bios to clear up some space in the option rom, but so far no luck. I made sure I have the latest MSI bios, but I am 1 or 2 revisions behind on the promise controller card bios, because I don't have a floppy drive and I can't get any bootable cds to work."
Could be...
"If need be, I can get a new ide controller card, but I would rather not, because this one works just fine, and I am pretty short on cash. I am also worried that this same problem will happen with other controller cards that I pick up. Any advice on how to get this thing working?"
"-phoenix rev 1.2 (I think. Can't remember. Whatever liveupdate says is the newest)"
Check the exact version. Latest version is 1.6, if there is an conflict that raid card unable to register property like(No enough Space to copy PCI Option ROM or similar) a new bios can help. -
Does anyone know how to configure the BIOS to use the Promise IDE controller to add an additional hard drive? I am not trying to set up a RAID array, I am simply trying to add another hard drive to my system using the IDE3 connector.
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Thanks for the info, I think I am almost there.
I followed your suggestions, and in Windows 2002 device manager now sees the drive. It is labeled:
WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1 SCSI Disk Device
(although it is an IDE device)
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By the way, i am using Windows 7 x64 and updated itunes
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