bingle

Hi!

So one of my IDE drives might be failing, and I used the excuse to buy a nice new 250GB SATA drive. I have an ECS KT600-A motherboard, that has an onboard Via SATA RAID controller. I already have two IDE hard drives and a DVD-ROM in the system, an ATI Radeon 9200, and I'm using onboard sound and LAN.

The SATA drive is recognized fine by the RAID BIOS, but when I get into Windows the RAID controller shows up in the device manager as having problems - the exact problem is "Code 12. This device cannot find enough resources to use." I tried disabling quite a few devices: all my serial and parallel ports, the second display on the video card, the floppy controller, even the sound card and the DVD drive, but the same problem occurred.

So, I'm not really sure how SATA works - do I even need the RAID controller? I don't really want to RAID the drive. If I don't need it, how do I enable the SATA controller but not the RAID controller? The BIOS only has an option to "Enable Onboard SATA Device".

If I do need it, why is it complaining about not enough resources? Anything I can do to fix that?

I checked for a new BIOS and driver, but I seem to have the most recent ones...

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bingle