Balor

Oh-uh, it's a sign of faulty controller, actually. 99% sure.

Btw, what does controller's firmware say when you boot your PC?

Manyak

This is not verbatim, but it goes something lile: "Programmable RAID controller something or another copyright blah blah blah.....detecting hard drives....battery pack not installed so you might lose data....detected drives: none".

In other words, no errors other than the missing battery. You really think its faulty? I'll have to pick up a PCI graphics card and open up the PCIe slot on another computer to try it.

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Manyak

Ok well I tried it on a different computer (AMD w/ nForce 570) and it worked flawlessly. Flashed it and everything.

But back in my computer it still gives the same error

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DuckieHo

And you got the pin mod down?

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Manyak

Yup, they are covered in bright pink nail polish.

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hawt.

The PCIe pins didn't cut through the nail polish? (It happend to me once and system wouldn't boot).


I don't know what else to suggest. I am running a X38 fine with it. Intel's reference must have some other funkiness to it....

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Manyak

Nope the polish is still solid.

And yeah thats pretty weird. Maybe a BIOS update will fix it.



Edit: Can you do me a favor, check in your device manager if you have a PCI->ISA bridge (or anything else ISA)??

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Just letting everyone know i got the card installed via the tape method. I have to make the mount for it but i will dig around for some cards that i can jack the metal piece from at work tomorrow. I flashed the card to the newest 8480 lsi firmware and got everything installed like a champ. I dont have the cables yet as i just wanted to see if the card even worked before i bought them. As soon as i get the cables in i will do some benchies with up to 8 drives. They wont be the fastest in the world maybe 60 - 70 MB/s drives but better then nothing

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Also, did i not let the finger nail polish dry long enough? it kept being scrapped off. Maybe my g/f wears crappy finger nail polish?

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DuckieHo

I believe there were two PCI -> PCIe bridges. I have to go check at home...

Look a the chip to the left of the ARM processor. That is the bridge chip... could you give me the model number?

Same here... so I used the tape method.

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