ASUS P4S800-MX + PCI silicon SATA RAID (3112) = press a key to reboot (cd boot), why?

edited May 2006 in Hardware
I have got these hardware:
ASUS P4S800-MX (BIOS 1011 < current),
skymater (<sort of no brand brand) silicon 3112 2 ports SATA RAID card,
a DVD rom ,
and other computer parts.

whenever the sil 3112 card is plugged into the PCI slot, and config CMOS and make DVD rom as first boot, the error : " press a key to reboot " will come up when I tried to boot up from any bootable CD. It seems to boot from the no-OS raid drive, but I cannot prevent it or make the DVD rom run.

If the sil 3112 card is unplugged OR SATA HDD are unplugged, I can boot up from any bootable CD.

The SATA RAID is set as a RAID 1 ( mirror)

I already tried all different IRQ , and boot sequence , still doesnt work
By pressing ESC power on, and select DVD rom out of the 3 : DVD rom, HHD, SCSI device, still doesnt work

Please help ....
This really give me headache....

I saw a few complain on the same kind of problem, does any one have a solution?
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