Old ASUS A7V + Silicon Image PCI Sata Controller problem

Hello!

Pci cards in my system: Sondblaster Live! Player, Realtek PCI Fast
Ethernet, SATA Controller, Hauppauge WINTV

I have a Manhattan Mercury Serial ATA Controller (Silicon Image
SIL3112ACT144) in PCI Slot 2 (newest SATALink-Bios, current drivers).
Bios Version of the Motherboard is 1011. The Bios-Settings for the PCI
Bus are default.
When I install Windows 2000 in a 3GB partiton on the sata drive
(Seagate Barracuda, 120GB), everything is ok until the first start of
Windows. Here I sometimes get a bluescreen, that says that Windows is
unable to load either "tcpip.sys" or "rdbss.sys". Next I press the
reset key. This time Windows starts up (most times).
Next problem is, when i copy a large amount of data from the ide drive
(Western Digital, 40GB) to the sata drive, i get data corruption and
crc errors. When i use "chkdsk" on the sata drive, it has to repair
the "Mirror of the Master File Table" and the "volume bitmap".

My question is, if there is a problem with the PCI-Bus settings in the
Bios, or if the error is to search elsewhere (where?).

Thank you for your help
FuXi

 

When I set a controller card I try to find out what slot would have shared
irq/dma channels with the raid version of that mobo!
I hope I never see those damn Live cards again!
For W2k, non-PNP OS, I would pull everything except vid card and get the
sata on the irq from the bios post where it doesn't share.
Add the other cards back in later, one at a time!
Some combinations just never seem to work right.

 

Thank you very much for your answer! I pulled every card out exept
sata. Next i tried to start windows, but i got a black screen with an
exeption before windows could boot up. I put the sata controller into
another slot, system hangs after sata bios report.
So, the controller only "works" in pci slot 2 (shares irq with onboard
promise ide, which i don't use) with all cards plugged in (funny
thing). Bios post shows promise and sata on irq 10, windows shows
promise on 10 and sata on 9.
I still don't believe its a resource conflict. In my opinion, its a
wrong PCI-Bus setting in Bios.
Another problem is: There are several bios files for the Silicon Image
chipset. One is the SataRaid Bios, the other is the SataLink Bios.
Both work for my card (Silicon Image SIL3112ACT144 Chip). Which one
should i use? I bought the controller as Sata without raid, but
originally there was a Raid-Bios installed on the Controller and Raid
drivers on the CD.

Thank you for any tip
FuXi

 

It may be a driver issue, in fact, it most likely is. For win2k, are
you using the latest SP, and the latest VIA drivers (all but the
ATAPI/IDE ones). Win2k is smart enough to handle IRQs/DMAs, assuming
you installed with pnp OS on, and your not using the old mode.
I also have read that the Hauppauge drivers cause conflicts in some
other devices.


Btw, which A7v is it exactly? Is it a A7v133 v1.05. or ??