Silicon Image 3512 for win XP 64bit

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edited February 2005 in Hardware
Hi guys,

I have a problem insatlling win xp 64 bit edition on my system. I have the Giga-byte K8N PRO mother board and i downloaded the driver from short-media that is suppose to be for the 64 bit os. This is realy frustrating me cause i have been trying to do this for a few days now and i have no progress.

When i install it, it seems to install fine butwindows says, no mass storage devices found and it reboots itself. I have no idea why this is happening. If anyone has any answers i would realy apreciate it if u could let me know why this is doing this.

thanka again in advance.
take care

Comments

  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Is the Silicon Image device enabled in the bios?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    Right now i am using the system with win xp on it
    I assume it is enabled cause i an running 2 SATA drives.
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Well if you are running two sata drives then it is enabled.

    I just noticed (ok so I am a little slow today) that you mentioned mass storage device.

    Are you running a RAID array?

    Tmod
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    no i am not. In the Bios i have set it to BASE not RAID. And all i want to do is to install win xp 64. And for what ever the reason its not working. i downloaded the driver straight from the silicon image website. Still not working. and i am getting realy annoyed with this thing.

    if u can help if would be greatly apreciated.
    thanks
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Try setting it to RAID in the bios as you don't have to run be running RAID when you do that.

    Also there is usually two different drivers for the SI Chip. One is for NON-RAID and the other for RAID so you may want to try a different driver.
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    there are drivers for the Silicon Image 3512A(the 3512A is what i have) on this website here. the short-media drivers list. i tried it but the problem is that it installs and shows as its been installed . U know i press F6 and then install the driver. But further down the installation Windows says no HD were installed......

    As if i never did the F6 thing. i am confused. Do u think its an issue with the fact that the drivers and the OS is still in Beta?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    i find that both sil image and gigbyte have horrible support!
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Did you ever press "S" and pick the driver you want to use on the floppy?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    yeah and i installed the driver that said Silicon image 3x12 for AMD 64
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    and when i did that...it showed up as installed and said anything else...i pressed enter to continue. As i did the last time i installed windows xp(but that was not the 64 bit version)
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Can you give me the link to the driver you used?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    I used a few, one from http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadresults.aspx?pid=29&bios=0&drivers=1&sataraid=0&

    I tried both with the 64-bit windows and neither worked....that one said error on line something and nothing worked

    http://www.short-media.com/search.php?id=13171 i tried all of the ones from here that said 64-bit

    they didn't work either. It never said error, but it installed fine but when it came time to installing windows it said no HD detected.

    The two placed where i got the driver form gave me 2 different errors. I am lost.

    BTW i have the 3512A and it seems that the 3112 also works. actually when i downloaded the 3x12 package from gigabyte a while back to install win XP 32-bit it installed the 3112 on my system. when i go into device manager it shows up as the 3112 driver, even though the mother board has the 3512 chipset.

    i am sorry if i am confusing you here. thanks again
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    when i go into device manager it shows up as the 3112 driver, even though the mother board has the 3512 chipset.

    So you do have windows installed already?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    yeah, I have windows XP pro, and i want to install the 64-bit version
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Since I don't know the Gigabyte line is this Intel or AMD?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    Even as it is my system is running all wierd. Its slow, around 75% of what it should be. Thats why i wanted to install the 64 bit os to see if it would be faster.

    I am also curious to why it installs the 3112 driver when i have the 3512 chipset. and this is for the 32-bit os. maybe that is why my system is running slow?

    btw i have cleaned up my system and there is no spyware and or anything else running in the background.
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    this is AMD 64
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    Ok try the attached driver package.
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    its the Gigabyte- K8N Pro mother board
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    ok i iwll try and i'll be back in 5 minutes. thanks alot dude.
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    yo dude, u rock. it worked!!


    where did u find that driver?
  • profit_500profit_500
    edited February 2005
    now i want to back up my favorites and emails and try the software. Thanks soo much! :D
  • TmodTmod
    edited February 2005
    I found it off of SI Images site but removed all the non-essential stuff and it is also the IDE driver and not the Raid.

    Glad it is working for you, Now go give it hell!

    Tmod
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