Gigabyte motherboard not recognising Dell PERC 6i card

[Redgie]

I have a nice new Gigabyte B360M-D3H motherboard, and have fitted to it an old Dell (LSI) PERC 6i RAID card. The card isn't recognised in the BIOS as a storage device and no prompts come up during boot (normally a length initialisation process would come up).

I have tried:
- Using the RAID card in another PC (it works fine)
- Using another PCI-E card in the Gigabyte board (a network card) (which also works fine)
- Updating the motherboard's firmware (no change)
- Disabling all the onboard SATA controller (no change)

This is leading me to think it may be an incompatibility between this specific card and this specific board?

Thanks in advance

 

[lude1962]

Is there a legacy/csm option in the BIOS ie not UEFI?

 

[Redgie]

Is there a legacy/csm option in the BIOS ie not UEFI?

I have changed "Storage boot option control" and "Other PCI devices" both to "Legacy" but sadly still the PERC card is not detected

 

[Armageus]

Have you tried the "tape mod" that is needed to get the PERC 6i working in certain motherboards:

http://yannickdekoeijer.blogspot.com/2012/04/modding-dell-perc-6-sas-raidcontroller.html


Presumably you have it in the bottom PCI-E slot (16x physical, 4x electrical)?

Do you have a Video card in the other PCI-E slot (if not then worth trying one as well rather than the onboard video, based on comments on the above page)

 

[Redgie]

Hmm, seems the tape mod is only useful for systems unable to boot due to the presence of the PERC card, whereas my issue is that the board doesn't detect the presence of the PERC card?

Annoyingly I don't have a GPU to hand here, but I will grab an old one and try it, thanks

 

[Redgie]

Tried a GPU but still no change Starting to think that the combination of this card and this board just doesn't work for some reason... I'm just hoping it's not the same across the whole chipset...