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Can't get controller card to work

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MichelleC

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I have a 3 year old custom built PC. It has an Asus P4T533-C mobo with an onboard controller. The onboard controller is running two hard drives, a CD burner, and a DVD burner. I also had a Promise RAID card in there running two drives with RAID 0. After both hard drives failed in the RAID (at seperate times, so I went through the lost data twice 🙁 ), I've decided to ditch the dang thing.

I bought a Western Digital 320GB drive at Office Max because they had a deal and I went to Best Buy and got an Adaptec ASH-1233 ATA Adapter controller card. My husband, who is far more of a techy than I, has done everything he can to get this working. He checked and my mobo meets the requirements. He updated my bios. He tried different slots. No matter what he does, the computer will not boot with that card in there.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Michelle
 
To clarify the "won't boot": It posts and detects the card and lists all the drives but when it gets to the point of booting from the drive (the boot drive is on the onboard controller, not this new card), it just hangs.

Thanks,

Michelle
 
I would go in to the bios and double check the hard drive boot order, after adding the new controller card it might be trying to boot from the wrong hard drive..
 
He did that. He also took out every card except the video card and then tried the new controller in every slot and also tried disabling the onboard controller. Nothing worked. Anyone else have any ideas? I'm going to see if either Asus or Adaptec has tech support I can ask as well. I really want to get this to work.

Thanks,

Michelle
 
I was building my Windows Media Center Edition 2005 computer with old parts. I had an Intel board that was a few years old with a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4. After reading up on the Intel Application Accelerator and my plan on using a 320 GB drive, I discovered that the old motherboard doesn't support LBA (Large Block something or other), so the large 320 GB drive would not work with the board. I upgraded the board to one that did support that, an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe, problem solved.
 
The size of the drive isn't the issue; it's the controller card it doesn't like. At any rate, we gave up and took it back. My husband managed to reuse my old RAID card without doing RAID 0 again by defining two single drive RAIDS. It doesn't make much sense to have a single drive RAID, but it works, so that's all I care about. LOL.

Thanks everyone for responding,

Michelle
 
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