- Feb 1, 2014
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Hello,
Have a 2007 Dell E510 with three HDDs [W-10, W-7, XP Pro]. They all work very well. I needed one more SATA 7-pin port to eliminate having to move the Sata data connector back and forth. The card port was to be for the XP HD.
The first card was a SY-SA3114-4R. The drivers loaded right away from the CD but when the HD was connected to that card, there was nobody home; could not find the XP HD [none of the 3 HDs could be found actually because they all loaded drivers automatically anyway]. You could sit and push F1 all day. I tried to make it work for two weeks.
The next card was a SY-PEX40039. I was warned that this card could be too fast for my bus speed. This card was a PCI Express card so I tried it anyway but only spent a day on it. Of course it would not recognize the HDs either.
This 3rd and current card was supposed to the hot ticket! It was said to boot any Dell people used it on. It is SD-SATA150R. Of course, I get the same result [a black pre-boot screen that can't get past F1 and still can't find a hard drive]. All 3 HDs are driver loaded and none can be found with any of these cards. Although I just need it to work with the XP drive.
I've done all the common sense stuff like installing in safe mode, running as administrator only, switching many new SATA cables around, moving the cards to different slots, flash/updating the PC's BIOS at Dell's download center. I've installed from the supplied CD's, from a flash drive, from a saved file, from a DVD, from a floppy, from SIL's web site. That's all I can think of for now [I'm sure I forgot something though].
The PC's BIOS and Device Manager always see the cards just fine and always say the are "working properly". It can't be three bad cards, they just won't communicate with any HDs.
Can anyone help me?
Many thanks for ANY help,
Mike
Have a 2007 Dell E510 with three HDDs [W-10, W-7, XP Pro]. They all work very well. I needed one more SATA 7-pin port to eliminate having to move the Sata data connector back and forth. The card port was to be for the XP HD.
The first card was a SY-SA3114-4R. The drivers loaded right away from the CD but when the HD was connected to that card, there was nobody home; could not find the XP HD [none of the 3 HDs could be found actually because they all loaded drivers automatically anyway]. You could sit and push F1 all day. I tried to make it work for two weeks.
The next card was a SY-PEX40039. I was warned that this card could be too fast for my bus speed. This card was a PCI Express card so I tried it anyway but only spent a day on it. Of course it would not recognize the HDs either.
This 3rd and current card was supposed to the hot ticket! It was said to boot any Dell people used it on. It is SD-SATA150R. Of course, I get the same result [a black pre-boot screen that can't get past F1 and still can't find a hard drive]. All 3 HDs are driver loaded and none can be found with any of these cards. Although I just need it to work with the XP drive.
I've done all the common sense stuff like installing in safe mode, running as administrator only, switching many new SATA cables around, moving the cards to different slots, flash/updating the PC's BIOS at Dell's download center. I've installed from the supplied CD's, from a flash drive, from a saved file, from a DVD, from a floppy, from SIL's web site. That's all I can think of for now [I'm sure I forgot something though].
The PC's BIOS and Device Manager always see the cards just fine and always say the are "working properly". It can't be three bad cards, they just won't communicate with any HDs.
Can anyone help me?
Many thanks for ANY help,
Mike
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