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How do I activate my SATA ports 5-8 on the DFI LANPARTY UT SLI-DR

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vickan240sx   10-25-2009 at 07:29:42 PM

How would I go about activating my 5-8 SATA ports on this motherboard Inside my BIOS I only see ports 1-4 activated

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   10-26-2009 at 08:54:16 AM
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Can't find a motherboard with that model name. See if you can find yours here and post the ID.
http://www.dfi.com/portal/CM/cmpro [...] &mode=view

And might download the manual from there and check about the ports - should be in there.

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jitpublisher   10-26-2009 at 02:20:01 PM
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Ports 1-4 on your board are controlled by the nForce chipset, and 5-8 are controlled by the Sil 3114 chipset. You should be able to turn either chipset/controller on and off as well as set the mode they run at in your BIOS. Read you manual, or look a little deeper in your BIOS.
I use to have a UT series board from DFI, and I do remember these options are somewhere in that very, very, very extensive BIOS, I just don't remember exactly where.

On your board, which we do not know exactly which one you have buy the way, I am just going by the nForce UT board standards for a board with 8 SATA plugs, the Sil 3114 is an old SATA 1, or 150 controller.
The nForce SATA plugs are SATA 2, but it is also a fairly old chipset and actually performs on par or only slightly better than Sil 3114 chipset.


Message edited by jitpublisher on 10-26-2009 at 02:25:50 PM
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