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PCI SATA Card installation

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I've been having problems getting my SATA drive to run as SATA on my MOBO (Abit IS7), so today I bought a Kingwin PCI SATA card. Wanted to try it to see if the SATA HD speeds up. Looking at the Kingwin instructions, I think they have to be in error. They say to plug in the card while the computer is powered up. I feel sure this is an error, but wanted to see if anyone else has the card and knows.
 
WOW! Those are some messed up instructions. I tried to install a PCI soundcard with the power on once......just once. It didn't fry anything but there was a loud pop and the system shutdown. I had to clear the cmos with the jumper to get it to power back on.

I don't see how a PCI device could be made to be hot-swappable???

My advice is...don't do it.
 
Well, I didn't plan on doing it. Mostly wondering if anyone had ever followed the Kingwin instructions. I'm wondering how the card will work, now, it may be ass screwed up as the instructions. I opted for a low end card just to compare my HD speed on the card against the speed running on the MOBO. Right now I think SATA is pretty F'd up. With so many people having problems getting it to run, you'd think the MOBO manufacturers would put out some guidance. Maybe they can't get it running either. Oh well, at least mine boots from SATA 1.
 
Originally posted by: LatinJones
WOW! Those are some messed up instructions. I tried to install a PCI soundcard with the power on once......just once. It didn't fry anything but there was a loud pop and the system shutdown. I had to clear the cmos with the jumper to get it to power back on.

I don't see how a PCI device could be made to be hot-swappable???

My advice is...don't do it.
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Why the hell would you do that for!?!? :Q
 
Hehe....It was my first job in tech support and I was with a guy who was kinda helping me out and I asked him if I had to turn it off, he said no and then left the room. I didn't realize he was just kiddin'.... This guy turned out to be my brother-in-law so I'm kinda stuck with it....
 
First job in tech support?!?!!? You had never done any computer work before then? So how the heck did you get that job??? OMG!!!!
 
I fired a modem doing that once, before I really knew what I was doing. Perhaps you should call Kingwin and let them know of their mistake. See if they thank you for preventing RMA's because there are still plenty of people who follow the instructions precisly.
 
I thought I would come back to this thread and post the results of moving my SATA drive to the SATA PCI card. The drive is quite a bit slower than it was on the MOBO's SATA. The fastest drive on my computer is my storage drive which is on a Promise Ultra 133 TX2 PCI card. I'm going to move the SATA drive back to the MOBO SATA temporarily and this weekend I think I'll swap the drives around: Put XP on what is now storage and put my files on the SATA drive. No sense wasting that extra speed from the Promise card.

If anyone has suggestions, I'd be happy to try them, though it seems like either my Abit MOBO or my Seagate SATA drive doesn't want to cooperate and operate.
 
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