Situation: New Rosewill RC-201 SATA RAID Controller PCI card installed to add 2 SATA drives to older IDE-only motherboard (eMachines 2615, ECS L7VMM)
Problem: With SATA drives installed and the one IDE boot drive (jumpered to Master), boot gets right up to the point when the Windows XP logo should show and just freezes. (Boots fine with RAID card installed, but no SATA drives hooked up.)
Troubleshooting:
I have,
1) Updated Windows and Rosewill RAID drivers
2) Removed PCI cards (wireless Ethernet, Hauppauge PVR-150, PNY GeForce 6200)
3) Fiddled with BIOS boot sequence
4) Tried booting from SCSI with the SATA drive
I haven’t tried flashing the BIOS yet. (Didn’t want to make things worse.)
And the funniest thing: I can connect the SATA drive “hot” and they work just fine, so I’m pretty sure the RAID card is okay. So…as long as I never have to reboot, I’ll be just fine. 🙁
