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sata to pci card

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belmont717

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I recently bought a SATA to PCI adapter card, so that I could use my SATA harddrive with my motherboard that does not have a onboard SATA controller. My problem is that whenever I turned on the SATA harddrive I cannot bootup windows or bootup from a windows cd. However, when I unplug the SATA harddrive everything works perfectly fine.

The SATA to PCI adapter card is working because when I bootup into windows I can see it listed under the device manager. Also when I plug in the SATA harddrive it shows that it detects the harddrive.

I first installed the adapter card and installed the drivers. Then I shutdown the computer and hooked up the SATA harddrive. Then I turn on the computer and it sort of hangs with a black screen.

Did I do something wrong? Any help is appreciated.
 
That was what I was thinking, but I don't know which hdd it is. In bios it has HDD0, HDD1, HDD2, HDD3. The computer only has 1 hard drive and I am trying to add the SATA which makes two. Am I missing something here? I also tried setting each of the HDD0, HDD1,... to boot first with no success.
 
Technically BIOS update will not do a thing, but who knows.
Btw what kind of board is that?

Usually in the BIOS under the "boot order" menu, you'll see some lists try to set the HD as the first option. And see if you have option like "other controller" or "external controller" or maybe since you said you have the option of HD0, HD1, etc. I would say in most cases the original drive attached to the board's IDE port is the HD0 and the rest sort of follows.

In any case if you can post what board you have we might be able to figure something out.
 
Usually the BIOS will identify any controller card as a SCSI card.

Belmont... does your BIOS list a SCSI option in the boot order?
 
I called the manufacturer of the motherboard today and they said the motherboard didn't support the sata to pci. They told me to try using a usb sata enclosure. Thanks for the help guys.
 
Did you check to see if the adapter itself has a BIOS? I have an IDE PCI card, and after the system bios boots I have a ctrl-H option to go into the card's BIOS.
 
It's a bit strange that the board didn't support SATA to PCI card.
By the way just one thing if you want to try as suggested by 'KGBMAN', go to the BIOS then under the "Advanced BIOS Setup" menu, change the 1st boot device to CDROM, 2nd boot device to SCSI, and 3rd boot device to HDD-0. See if you can boot to either the Windows CD setup of the SATA drive.

'HermDogg' also pointed out an interesting thing about the BIOS on the SATA PCI card. Although from my experience even the cheap cards usually have some rudimentary BIOS, so I'm kinda doubtful that your card doesn't have a BIOS.
 
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