Problem with Silicon Image 3112a Sata PCI Card

[nXus]

I needed more sata interfaces so i bought a generic SATA card with 2 ports using the Silicon Image 3112a chipset. Actually the same chipset my main comp has.

Problem is whenever i connect a device to the card i can't boot up. just after it finishes doing all the post the screen goes blank instead of doing the windows loading part. Works fine if i have no device plugged into it.

These are the things i have tried

Having nothing plugged into my onboard but plugged into pci card. doesn't work


Updating mobo bios to latest ver. doesn't help
updating pci card to latest bios. doesn't help
moving card to different pci slots. doesn't help

Card is recognised in windows if i bootup with no devices connected to it.

I've tried all of these things but in a completely different computer, but still same thing..

I'm thinking it must be the card and i'm gonna take it back to hopefully get a replacement. but i have seen a few posts around the web with ppl having the same prob. but nothing about solutions.

anybody got one and does it work fine?

[whetu]

have you tried your boot options in the bios?

eg first boot device is scsi and boot other device is enabled

[Agent666]

what motherboard are you using??

[nXus]

ok got a replacement. but now in windows whenever i try to copy files the system hangs.

iwill kk266 non raid version. the latest bios available.

and its not my boot drive. my boot drive is a normal 30gb pata.

whereas before windows wouldn't boot at all. now it boots but system hangs when i copy any files. i can go to windows update but even that hangs after a while. it works fine as long as i don't have any sata device plugged into the card. its not the h/d that works fine on my main comp that has onboard sata. so its running windows 2000. latest patches. there was a patch that said when ntfs partitions remount causes comp to hang. but that didn't fix it..

bah bah bah... so damned annoyed with this. no reply from silicon image either

[Ragnor]

I see you said you tried the RAID card in a different system, was that also an IWill board, same mobo chipset (KT133A)...??

I would put money on it being a conflict with the mobo or a particular mobo chipset. Early Via chipsets were dodgy still involving alot of reverse engineeing of intel chipsets and all.

Actually thinking about it it's not unheard of to have compatibility problems with an old mobo and a PCI card especially as you say they are using the same sillicon image chipset. Probably trying to use the same interrupts or something like that.