{TCC}puTTs Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I just installed a LinkDepot Sil3112a controller in my machine. My reads are up 3-4MBs and writes 8-10MBs. Only problem is my computer doesn't boot from it everytime. If I cold boot it it's fine everytime, but if I restart sometimes it won't boot from it. It doesn't show the sata BIOS screen at all it just flipps from the LANPARTY post screen right to "NO MEDIA FOUND" since it didn't pick up the harddrive. Any thoughts on this? Is a BIOS change up? I think I have the 8-24-04???It's not a huge prob but kinda anoying. Thanks, puTTs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 Have you tried selecting the HardDrive specifically in the Boot Order Menu, as the 2nd or 3rd Option maybe? Like, try SCSI see if that helps(think thats the option i had to use to boot off my SATA when using a SATA and PATA together or it would just try to boot off the PATA)? Not sure how it would work off an Add On Card(never used one). There are a couple of other possible options you could try too, like having the first and second options set to Floppy & CD-Rom with 3rd Boot Device Disabled and Boot From Other Device Enabled(would it be classed as other device?). It sounds like its trying to boot off a non-existent drive on the onboard controller maybe... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
{TCC}puTTs Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 It got to be something like that. The original screen for the onboard you know how it comes up and says detecting harddrives and what not. When the add-in card works that comes up with it's 3112a, when it doesn't work it's BIOS doesn't even show up. puTTs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 Try it and see how you go. If it doesn't work then i'd try another Bios, or maybe even just try reseatting the card? Btw, have you updated the Bios on the PCI Card since you got it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loggan26 Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 Which slot do you have the pci card in man? And do you have other pci devices in there......If not make sure the pci card is in slot 2 from the agp,,,,,,,........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
{TCC}puTTs Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I have it in slot 4 now and my audigy card in 5. It seems to be working fine so far. Why slot 2? I keep all onboard disabled except the IDE's, Floppy, gigabit lan. Thanks, puTTs. Edit: Did you want me to use slot 2 since the onboard was originally there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tmod Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I had the same problem with that card. I tried all the slots as well as returning the first card and getting another and the problem still came back. You notice when it doesn't recognize the drives that the card is recognized as a mass storage controller and not a raid card? Then when you do a cold boot it will then recognize as a raid controller card. Contacted Link Depot and never did get a response. Ahhh what customer service we get nowadays. Oh my solution was to get a Bus Link card and everything works great. Tmod Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 What advantages are you seeing using the controller card,over onboard. Less cpu resources utilized? Faster performance? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tmod Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I am running Raid 0 and the onboard 3114 controller lacks the speed that the 3112A has. I don't know if it is a driver issue or something that is weird with the 3114 but I didn't feel the 3114 speed was acceptable. Tmod Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I am running Raid 0 and the onboard 3114 controller lacks the speed that the 3112A has. I don't know if it is a driver issue or something that is weird with the 3114 but I didn't feel the 3114 speed was acceptable. Tmod Got any benchmarks w/3112?,ATTO,HD Tach Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
{TCC}puTTs Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 So just an incompatibility... I get that message in the BIOS "mass storage controller " when it doesn't work. I cleared the BIOS on it and reflashed it hoping there was something wrong there but still out of the blue it just doesn't recognize it. Something interesting I've noticed. I did a fresh install of windows, and bench this card with atto, I peaked out at ~56mbs reads, and ~58mbs writes. This is just with a sigle 3 year old diamond max 9 drive. I swapped it back to the onboard 3114 controller and it scored the exact same... Before I compared the 3114 with a cluttered 6 month old windows install with a fresh install on the 3112. So really after doing a few other benches it's not any faster then the onboard... This is with a single drive though I don't know how they compare with a raid setup. There is 1%cpu usage with this card, onboard was 6-8%, so I'm going to send this card back and exchange for a Koutech one. puTTs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 I have been wondering if there were any real advantages,specifically cpu utilization and speed advantages,just haven't seen any posted yet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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