- Apr 24, 2012
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Installed a PCIe card in my 5-yr old PC (Asus P7P55D-E LX MB) to take advantage of the Samsung EVO 840 SSD.
There was panic at 1st since windows would not boot with either the original HD nor the SSD. Now I can let my SSD boot if I remove 1 of my hard drives & my CD-r player.
The thing is, once the PC is on if I then go & plug the other HD on, nothing happens as far as Windows is concerned BUT then I go to Device Manager, click on "Scan for hardware changes" and it is seen again & can be used.
There were 2 optical drives and 3 physical disks (HDs) on it. Now 1 optical disk 1 HD and 1 SSD.
The PCIe card has can only be attached to the 1 SSD. It is not a brand name with absolutely nothing written on the card itself--in ordering it the name was "mSATA SATA III 3.0 HDD SSD to PCI-e HyperDuo Raid Controller Card Adapter 6Gbps" (I'd like 2 attach a photo but can't see how)
My power supply is 800 W so it can definitely handle it. Asus is closed for the week-end so I'm hoping I can get an answer here.
So what can be done in order to have my windows boot normally with all drives?
OS:Win7
There was panic at 1st since windows would not boot with either the original HD nor the SSD. Now I can let my SSD boot if I remove 1 of my hard drives & my CD-r player.
The thing is, once the PC is on if I then go & plug the other HD on, nothing happens as far as Windows is concerned BUT then I go to Device Manager, click on "Scan for hardware changes" and it is seen again & can be used.
There were 2 optical drives and 3 physical disks (HDs) on it. Now 1 optical disk 1 HD and 1 SSD.
The PCIe card has can only be attached to the 1 SSD. It is not a brand name with absolutely nothing written on the card itself--in ordering it the name was "mSATA SATA III 3.0 HDD SSD to PCI-e HyperDuo Raid Controller Card Adapter 6Gbps" (I'd like 2 attach a photo but can't see how)
My power supply is 800 W so it can definitely handle it. Asus is closed for the week-end so I'm hoping I can get an answer here.
So what can be done in order to have my windows boot normally with all drives?
OS:Win7
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