Re: What happened to my SATA 750 drive

It hangs before it gets to the OS. There were too many drivers to
select from for me to chose which one to pick.

I didn't find a BIOS update.



On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:47:31 -0500, "GeneF"
<RemoveNoSpamPhraseJunk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you tried the lastest BIOS updates and/or drivers for the SiI 3112
chipset
which are available at Silicon Image's web site (which you can Goggle for)?
I found that to get a SATA DVD+RW to work in my pc, I had to upgrade the
BIOS on the card as well as update to the latest Windows drivers.
Good luck.
Gene

"Terry" <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cfjfv3dmv0u392a8qa6kn2djgbsga08kvi@xxxxxxxxxx
I have a PCI Sil 3112A SATA RAID 14.2.47 1997-2004 Silicon Image Inc.
card with 2 ports. One port is an existing WD 500 the second port is
for a new WD 750
(I am not using RAID)

I just installed the SATA WD 750G drive in my machine. It would hang
at boot.

I went to WD support page and found this:

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1337
&p_created=1112379341

The page says to install a jumper to lock the drive at 150 MB/s. When
I installed the jumper it worked fine.

I dumped an IDE drive to the new drive because I am going to use the
smaller drive in another machine. I took the IDE drive out

Now the drive hangs the computer at boot again. I even plugged in the
old IDE drive again.

I can unplug the SATA cable of the new drive and it boots fine.

I didn't do anything. How could it have stopped working again?

.

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