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

skaven

Ewww...the dreaded "out of resources" error. Haven't seen that one in a while. Usually you can get Windows to tell you what "resource" it can't acquire (I/O, IRQ, etc). Instead of just randomly disabling devices, find out what device is conflicting, then either disable it or change the conflicting device's settings to not conflict anymore. I don't have a Windows box handy, so I don't have the exact directions for that.

As for the RAID driver, you definitely need it. Even though you're not running RAID, the RAID controller is what Windows must communicate with to access your drive. If you disable or remove the driver, your sATA ports essentially become invisible to Windows.

theburner

It has been awhile since I set up the Raid on my system, but if I remember right I didn't need any raid drivers to use my SATA ports. Check your BIOS to ensure that you aren't set up for RAID. I have an IC7-Max3, IC7-G, and IC7. All have Raid on them except the IC7, and I didn't use any raid drivers to install my SATA.

1) Check your BIOS to ensure that you haven't got it configured to automatically set up RAID.
2) Reinstall, but don't load your RAID Drivers. [edit: by reinstall, I mean reinstall the drive without loading the RAID Drivers]

My bet is the "out of resources" refers to the lack of a second SATA Drive (ie your system is trying to RAID the single drive).

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bingle

Thanks for your suggestions. I saw mentioned on another forum the possibility that this motherboard doesn't support single SATA, only RAID - it was just mentioned, though, not confirmed. Does that seem logical? It seems somewhat odd to me that something like that would be sold, but anything's possible. And in the BIOS the only option is to enable onboard SATA RAID, there's no option to enable SATA without a raid.

I'm going to keep fooling around with it; thanks again for your help.

Bingle

bingle

OK, So I solved the problem. I'm going to post this here in case anyone else has a similar issue.

It turned out that Windows was ill, and my HAL was messed up. Another symptom of this was the fact that my PC was showing up as a "standard PC" rather than an ACPI Compatible PC. Unfortunately, I had to reinstall Windows to fix the problem, but once I did everything was fine. Now I just have to get back to reinstalling Meedio and reconfiguring everything...

Bingle