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I had an Nforce board that also uses 3 different chipsets. 1 for PATA/IDE, 1 for 2 SATA ports, and yet another different chipset for an additional 4 SATA ports. The nv_SATA chipset performed just fine. The additional SATA ports were not functional. Deleyed starts, file corruption, drive would disappear .... I don't recall the exact silicon image chipset I had, but there are known incompatibilities with some models and Linux, and some models with certain HD manufacturers (Seagate for example). Before that I had two older Nforce 3 250gb boards, which had the exact same issues with the SATA ports. Personally, I'll never purchase another Nforce board, not when Intel ICH's and AMD's chipsets work flawlessly. |
I removed all the hardware in my system other than 1 HDD (connected to the nVidia SATA controller), 1 DVD drive, 1 USB keyboard, 1 usb mouse, 1 nVidia 7800 GT and 1 monitor. I was able to boot huge.s without any problems. I then started adding hardware back into the system until I ran into problems. Adding all the HDDs back in (4 on the nVidia controller, 3 on the silicon controller - 2 of them in a raid array), the second DVD drive, the sound card, using the USB hub in the monitor for my keyboard and mouse all had no problems. When I added the second video card back in, I got a black screen after the boot prompt. When I changed the SLI setting in my BIOS from 'auto' to 'single video card' I was able to boot with no problems. I honestly don't understand why any of that would change anything, as I had tried the 'single video card' option prior to doing anything with my hardware. At the end of the day, when I ran the setup program, the hardware was exactly the same as it was at the start of the thread.
I setup the one HDD I'm using for linux with: Code:
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VFS: Cannot open root device "823" or unknown-block(8,35) edit: re: bios etc: years ago when I first installed on this system I had no end of problems using the nv_SATA ports for my raid array, using the silicon chipset I've had no problems. |
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