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Help! Banged Mass Storage Controller

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trueblue

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Please help me- Today I put my first computer together with no real problems everything works great. Thanks mostly to info from you people over the past months.

I have one small problem that needs your expert help: I fitted a Intel D845PEBT2 mobo, P4 2.4Gb CPU, Seagate 60gb IV harddrive (non sata) a liteon dvd & burner, Leadtek Ti4200 & Santa Cruz Sound Card. I installed Windows Home XP SP1.

All went well and everything installed fine except when I checked the device manager I get a banged Mass Storage Controller error/yellow exclamation mark.

Now I know my mobo has SATA & Raid but I disabled them in Bois as I am not using them and I have not installed the drivers. Is this the problem as the intel manual is really poor on detail??

Has anyone else experienced this and if I install the drivers will raid and sata still be disabled.

Regards to all

Trueblue
 
More than likely the unknown device is either the SATA or RAID controller and installing the drivers will not enable them if you have them disabled in the BIOS.

techfuzz
 
Ok techfuzz I emailed Intel on this and this is the reply:

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In order to get rid of the yellow bang on the Device Manager, you need to install the SATA drivers for your Intel(R) Desktop Board D845PEBT2. The latest Silicon Image* driver, version 1.0.0.21can be downloaded from this site:
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So I did that . To install I had to enable 'Serial ATA raid' in the Bios. Upon boot to Win Xp Home the hardware wizard came up and I installed the driver form there. Also I noticed the 'Mass Storage Controller' bang had turned to a 'Silicon Image SiI3112 SATA RAID Controller'. After installing the driver as above the bang was gone.

However I went back and disabled the 'Serial ATA Raid' again and when it booted back to windows and checked the device manager the 'Silicon image SiI3112 SATA RAID Controller' was gone and replaced back by a banged 'Mass Storage Controller'.

Any suggestions as I don't want Raid and SATA enabled. The only other thing I can think of is to disable the 'Silicon image SiI3112 SATA RAID Controller' via the right click in windows on the device in device manager.

Will any of the above affect performance of my new system??

Any help or suggestions or comments welcome pleaaaase.

Regards

Trueblue

Vance
 
Since your not using the mass storage controller, I think just leaving the yellow mark there is okay. I'd keep it disabled so it doesn't use up resources.

EDIT: I mean to keep it disabled in the BIOS, not windows.
 
I disabled my SATA controlled using a jumper on the motherboard because I don't have any SATA drives... I don't have to worry about "bangs" in device manager now.
 
banged?! LOL!!! I thought that your rammed that sucker with a screwdriver or something really heavy and crushed it to pieces.
 
The Intel D845PEBT2 does not have jumpers to disable Sata/raid. By disabling the device in the windows program will it still be using resources?
 
Thanks people still waiting on intel's reply. One fix is to enable 'Serial ATA Raid' in the bios-load the V1.0.0.0.21 driver then just disable 'Silicon Image SiI3112 SATA RIAD Controller' in the device manager but leave the serial ATA Raid enabled in the BIOS.

All the bangs are gone but only thing I am not sure on is if it is taking a hit on performance with this setup?
 
Originally posted by: RobCur
banged?! LOL!!! I thought that your rammed that sucker with a screwdriver or something really heavy and crushed it to pieces.
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I was thinking allong the same lines... never heard those exclamation points called "bangs"
 
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