I-Ram problem....

[T9D]

I just got an I-ram today. But it doesn't seem to want to work. My computer gets stuck at the post screen and wont do anything. I cant even get into the Bio setup.

I read the manual and I see it says it's works with certain motheboards.....I have an albatron. Man thats bogus if it wont work with mine. Anyone have any ideas or am I just stuck?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Does the manual say anything about charging the battery pack before you first use it?

 

[T9D]

It's powered by the PCI slot while the computer is plugged in. So it shouldn't matter if the battery is totally charged or not. Doesn't say it needs to charge first though. Should be a decent charge by now though anyway.

I dont know what to do. I tried another slot and it still doesnt work. Just hangs. If I take off the sata wire I can boot but obviously thats because the I-ram is basicly not connected. I checked and my motherboard has an intel chipset. So you'd think it should be compatable.

 

[T9D]

Forget it I give up. This sucks. I was really looking forward to using it. And I bought another 2 gigs of ram for it a couple months ago. And plus the shipping cost of this. A lot of money lost. How depressing.

 

[GrammatonJP]

iram is not compatible with certain raid chips, it doesn't work with areca for sure...

it also does not support smart, disable smart on that port and try again..

 

[T9D]

S.m.a.r.t hasn't been enabled at all. I've always had it disabled.

I'm not using any type of raid.

I tried it also on another sata port but that didnt work either.

 

[Lord Evermore]

You could ask Gigabyte support. They may just tell you to F off since you don't have a supported board, but maybe they've got a fix that just hasn't been made widely available yet.

Battery charge is supposed to be 6 hours. Press and hold the red button to light up the LEDs to show the charge.

This is the list of chipsets they've tested on.

Are there any settings in your BIOS which apply to setting the speeds of your SATA connections? The iRAM only supports 1.5Gbps, maybe if the board is trying to set it to 3G that could halt the boot. But since you don't even see a POST screen, that's unlikely.

The manual also lists information regarding the LEDs whether it's correctly detected and powered by the mainboard. There's a PHY_READY blue LED that indicates it's detected correctly, and 3VDUAL lit yellow indicates powered by motherboard. HD_LED blue indicates read/write activity.

There's also a very short list of supported memory, so you may just have incompatible memory.

 

[CrashX]

Try it in another computer to make sure yours isn't defective somehow.