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  1. August 24th, 2012, 08:37 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niclo Iste View Post
    What about SD card readers on the machine? If you have any disconnect them/disable in the BIOS. Some card readers play havok on programs designed to format drives.
    Nope, no other drives connected to the system other than the SSD Sata and the SATA ROM drives which are on the onboard channels. I only have the monitors and a keyboard and mouse connected in the back too to minimize any interference.

    On a side note I first booted the computer with the OCZ Linux boot tools to verify the firmware was up to date and it detected the drive and the firmware but I could not flash it. I had to connect to the onboard and reboot to flash the firmware from 1.4 to 1.5. I think it is the card but not sure what to do about it since there are not many vendors of those cards that I can find and who is to say that I will not have the same trouble with a card of another brand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOB IROC View Post
    I think it is the card
    I'm leaning towards that too... Does the card show up OK in Device Manager when you boot from SATA2, & if so does a HDD connected to it operate ok?

    And just to try covering all bases, the SATA2 controller hasn't got set to IDE mode in the BIOS has it? If so, Windows will be set up as a non-AHCI installation, and the Vantec will no doubt be in AHCI mode.
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    Ok here is the latest. As a test I took a 250GB SATA 2 laptop hard drive as that is the drive that is closest in size to my 256GB SSD and Windows is installing on that. I figure if I can get Windows on that I can possibly use my work's copy of Acronis 14 that I made boot media from to clone it to the SSD and then it should bring over everything just as it was connected to the card and with a little bit of luck maybe boot and I can take it from there.

    Since it will take a SATA2 maybe the Vertex4 drive is just too fast for the SATA3 card and Windows is not liking that for the install. That's my theory anyway.
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  4. August 24th, 2012, 09:52 PM #4
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    Well that didn't work.. THe computer just sits at a black screen when it tries to boot. Plug the SSD into the onboard SATA2 and it boots fine. The question is do I try another card or just deal with the performance hit of SATA2 even though it should be much better than using a spindle Hard Drive..

    At least now I know it is an incompatibility with the Card and the SSD at the very least. Either that or the card and my motherboard.
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