ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM Owners!

[orion23]

Hi,
Does anybody with an A8N-SLI PREMIUM have multiple SATA drives connected to the Silicon controller (the red connectors) in a "NON RAID" function?
I need to know if this board or Silicon controller can operate as a regular IDE controller.
So far I cannot get my 2 SATA drives to be detected in windows.
Please help!

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Did you install the satacontroller file by hitting F6 for third party raid drivers durring windows install? I'm pretty sure you have to do this even thought your not using a raid setup

 

[orion23]

I've tried both ways, with F6 and providing drivers for both controllers, and without the F6 option.
I am wondering if the silicon 3114 supports starndard SATA functions.

If I try and force the installation of the SATA IDE driver for the silicon image 3114 controller, I get an error code 10 "Device cannot start"

 

[orion23]

I got it working finaly!
Thanks to all who helped in any way.

Asus does not provide a "NON RAID DRIVER" for the silicon controller. It is not in the installation CD or on their website for download.

I spent hours with their technical support and they didn't help either.

The solution was pretty simple actually:

If you want to use the Silicon controller to run SATA drives in a standard function (NO RAID) you have to use the F6 option during the Windows installation and use the SATA IDE Driver which you can download from the Silicon Image website.

Windows detected the drivers during setup and after a complete installation. I now have 4 drives under the Nvidia controller and 2 more under the Silicon controller.

However, I have a yellow mark under the device manager for this controller, and I am afraid to update its driver since everything is working the way I wanted it!

 

[amirijaz]

I have a similar problem. Non-RAID set up on Asus A8N-SLI Premium. I have 1 250g WD SATAII hard drive. The problem is that Silicon Image software starts every time I boot. It's annoying! But I can't figure out how to stop this. I don't think I even need the SI software (?) Can I uninstall somehow? Do I need to go into BIOS? Help?