My SATA ports on my Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe have been going out over the past few years, and I opted to purchase a PCI-Express Sata III Controller Card (Syba/IOCREST SY-PEX40039) instead of a full rebuild.
I've been working in IT for many years, and I built the box, but I may not know some of the "basic" things when it comes to system builds as it's not my specialty. The packaging came with a small instruction sheet, it stated to install the controller card in a PCI-E slot and connect the HDD, then boot up. This would never work since the O/S is already installed on the HDD, so I installed the controller card and booted into windows (leaving the HD on the Motherboard's faulty Sata port.)
When in windows, the device was detected and automatically installed the drivers. I then shut down, moved the Hard Drive over to the Sata controller, and booted up. I am getting a BSOD after the Splash Screen, so I shut down and moved the HD back to the Motherboard's Sata port, and booted back up.
Next I went out to the companies site to download the latest drivers (it came with a disk but I assumed they were outdated.) I didn't go to Device Manager to uninstall anything beforehand, so not sure if that could be part of my problem (I know enough to be dangerous.)
Reformatting and reinstalling Windows is an option, some investigation I've done on the forums elude to things working well if you do a clean install of the O/S. If that is advised, could someone elaborate on those steps for me? Would I install the Sata Card, connect my HD, and boot from my Windows 7 disk to format/install?
Thank you,
-Karl
I've been working in IT for many years, and I built the box, but I may not know some of the "basic" things when it comes to system builds as it's not my specialty. The packaging came with a small instruction sheet, it stated to install the controller card in a PCI-E slot and connect the HDD, then boot up. This would never work since the O/S is already installed on the HDD, so I installed the controller card and booted into windows (leaving the HD on the Motherboard's faulty Sata port.)
When in windows, the device was detected and automatically installed the drivers. I then shut down, moved the Hard Drive over to the Sata controller, and booted up. I am getting a BSOD after the Splash Screen, so I shut down and moved the HD back to the Motherboard's Sata port, and booted back up.
Next I went out to the companies site to download the latest drivers (it came with a disk but I assumed they were outdated.) I didn't go to Device Manager to uninstall anything beforehand, so not sure if that could be part of my problem (I know enough to be dangerous.)
Reformatting and reinstalling Windows is an option, some investigation I've done on the forums elude to things working well if you do a clean install of the O/S. If that is advised, could someone elaborate on those steps for me? Would I install the Sata Card, connect my HD, and boot from my Windows 7 disk to format/install?
Thank you,
-Karl
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