Wyndle
09-03-2006, 10:40 PM
Some of this seems simple yet I can't find anything specific to suggest anything other than a possibly bad MOBO.
The board is an MSI RS482M4. The first problem that I noticed was that the on-board SATA ports don't seem to work. The only device showing as unknown in Device Manager is "PCI Device" and it does not like the drivers from the recovery disk, from the MSI site, nor from the ATI site.
As if that wasn't enought to drive me batty, now it seems that if I try to install Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, SuSE, or Arch) that I get tons of errors that equate to file not found (the self-test on the disks shows them as good). I was orginally going to use Linux to see if the SATA ports issue was a Windows driver issue but now I'm convinced that it's something else hardware related.
I don't want to to fork out money on a new mobo unless it is unavoidable. Any suggestions or possible help?
**Edit**
After coming across a few Linux forums discussing the issues I have determined that it is the mobo causing the problems (though not really a broken hardware issue, just poor support for anything other than Win XP). While I'm a little upset at not having as great a gaming machine as I'd hoped (without the SATA drives) I've got a few other machines that I can play with Linux on. Since this machine was intended to be my XP gaming machine I am not going to go through the trouble it would take just to get it dual booting.
Anyone know a good 4 port PCI SATAII RAID card with Win2k Adv Server and/or Linux support? Since I'm not using onboard SATA for gaming I'll use the drives for a decent server.
The board is an MSI RS482M4. The first problem that I noticed was that the on-board SATA ports don't seem to work. The only device showing as unknown in Device Manager is "PCI Device" and it does not like the drivers from the recovery disk, from the MSI site, nor from the ATI site.
As if that wasn't enought to drive me batty, now it seems that if I try to install Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, SuSE, or Arch) that I get tons of errors that equate to file not found (the self-test on the disks shows them as good). I was orginally going to use Linux to see if the SATA ports issue was a Windows driver issue but now I'm convinced that it's something else hardware related.
I don't want to to fork out money on a new mobo unless it is unavoidable. Any suggestions or possible help?
**Edit**
After coming across a few Linux forums discussing the issues I have determined that it is the mobo causing the problems (though not really a broken hardware issue, just poor support for anything other than Win XP). While I'm a little upset at not having as great a gaming machine as I'd hoped (without the SATA drives) I've got a few other machines that I can play with Linux on. Since this machine was intended to be my XP gaming machine I am not going to go through the trouble it would take just to get it dual booting.
Anyone know a good 4 port PCI SATAII RAID card with Win2k Adv Server and/or Linux support? Since I'm not using onboard SATA for gaming I'll use the drives for a decent server.