Sata ports

[Vinnce]

Ok i have a dell precision t1600 with a startech raid card to run all drives (1 ssd on its own and 3 hdd's in raid 0). I was just wondering if I could get the on board sata ports to work at the same time. I need the extra ports and i was told you could run the on board ports at the same time even with a raid card installed. Can some one tell me how to do this

(I know that the wiring is mess I will clean it up when I fix this last problem)

[G27Racer_188]

Yes you can run on board ports at the same time, as they are on a different controller.

[Vinnce]

How do you do that

[G27Racer_188]

3 minutes ago, Vinnce said:

How do you do that

Just plug the drive in. From the picture your CD/DVD drive is running on the on board controller.

[Vinnce]

When i do that i just get black screen after dell post screen 

(The dvd drive power is unplugged at this time)

I think i may be missing the on board sata port controller driver? Any thoughts

[G27Racer_188]

11 minutes ago, Vinnce said:

When i do that i just get black screen after dell post screen 

(The dvd drive power is unplugged at this time)

I think i may be missing the on board sata port controller driver? Any thoughts

I don't think you are missing a driver if the dvd drive works normally when it has power.

 

Maybe there is some setting in the bios that is causing the problem. (probably the boot order when you unplug dvd drive)

[Vinnce]

When I plug something into the onboard sata port and start up the computer it goes through the dell screen then just a black screen

[G27Racer_188]

What if you just unplug from the on board, but don't plug anything new in, they are left blank?

[Vinnce]

If nothing is plugged in to the on board sata ports the computer starts fine

[G27Racer_188]

Does the drive you tried plugging into the on board have OS on it by any chance?

[Vinnce]

Nope

[G27Racer_188]

I am running out of ideas. The on board controller works fine since it runs the DVD drive.

What is attached to the second SATA port, since I see two data cables?

 

You should be able to access the bios during the post screen (when you plug in new drive) and try to setting the boot order directly to the SSD (I assume that is where your OS is)

[Vinnce]

(Sorry I was wrong)

 

Ok the red sata cable above my knuckle that is not connected is for my dvd drive. The 2 in my hand go to the 4 hard drive hot swap bay and have no hard drive in them at the moment.

 

The onboard sata ports work fine if I take the raid card out

[G27Racer_188]

Are only the 3 HDDs that are in RAID connected to the raid card, or is another drive connected to the 4th port on it?

 

Where is your boot drive connected?

 

Have you tried plugging the new drive to all 4 on board ports?

[Vinnce]

ok there are 3 HDDs in raid 0 and 1 ssd connected to the raid card.

 

The os is on the ssd on the raid card.

[G27Racer_188]

4 minutes ago, Vinnce said:

ok there are 3 HDDs in raid 0 and 1 ssd connected to the raid card.

 

The os is on the ssd on the raid card.

OK. Unplug everything from the on board and try connecting just the new drive to all 4 on board ports. Keep the raid card with it's drives installed.

 

If it still doesn't boot, I would guess the board disables on board controller (or just some ports) when it detects than an external one is installed. There should be a setting in the bios to re-enable the on board controller.

 

But if it is like I said above and the on board controller is disabled, than it should just be like it doesn't exist and ignore anything connected to it, rather than making a PC boot to a back screen.

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[Vinnce]

25 minutes ago, G27Racer_188 said:

OK. Unplug everything from the on board and try connecting just the new drive to all 4 on board ports. Keep the raid card with it's drives installed.

 

If it still doesn't boot, I would guess the board disables on board controller (or just some ports) when it detects than an external one is installed. There should be a setting in the bios to re-enable the on board controller.

 

But if it is like I said above and the on board controller is disabled, than it should just be like it doesn't exist and ignore anything connected to it, rather than making a PC boot to a back screen.

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Ok thanks for the help with how to post and my computer problem i will give what you said a try 

[SSD Sean]

Can you go into your BIOS after you install the RAID card? If so it sounds like the BIOS is just changing the boot priority once the RAID card is installed and you just need to change the boot order back to normal. 

[Vinnce]

Thanks for the help it turns out that it was a bios problem I had to turn on raid in the motherboard bios then everything just worked

And to think I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out for a month or more and boom one bios change and everything works