SiI 3112 PCI & MSI-6167; boot problems

MahoneyMahoney
edited June 2005 in Hardware
Hi,

I have an old 6167 MSI Motherboard, and I have recently upgraded to add
the SiL 3112 SATA Controller PCI Card in order to use a 200GB SATA
Drive. I have the latest version of the motherboard BIOS (1.6) which is built on Award 6.00, and the 3112 is running 4.2.50 which seems to be the latest version of its BIOS.

I am trying to boot to my old IDE hard drive, with the SATA drive as an
extra drive. I have the IDE hard drive as primary master and my DVD/CD
drive as secondary master. I have the BIOS set to boot to floppy
first, then HDD-0, then nothing - all other options (including SCSI)
disabled.

The computer now hangs on boot, just after "Verifying DMI Pool Data";
if I set it up to boot from CD first & there's no valid CD in the CD
drive it reports:

Verifying DMI Pool Data...
Unable to boot from CD-ROM

and then hangs, which suggests to me it's not the actual act of
Verifying DMI Pool Data that's the issue, but working out how to boot.

If I unplug the SATA HDD from the PCI card (but leave the PCI card
installed) it boots fine into Windows XP. What's more, I can then hot
plug the SATA drive into the SATA Controller and use it absolutely
fine.

I've tried all sorts of different boot orders but it doesn't seem to
make any difference; each time I have to unplug the SATA drive from the
SATA card to boot up then hotplug it in when XP is up and running (the
controller card does support this!).

I've also tried various cominations of IDE Primary/Secondary Slave & Master for the IDE drives, including unplugging both of them - behaviour remains the same.

This place seems to be very knowledgeable on these SiI cards; anyone got any bright ideas? It's a bit of a pain...

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