Sata Card On PCI-E Running Slow

Kingy1968

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Hi All

I have just purchased a 3gb/s PCI-E Internal Sata Card as all of my other sata ports are being used on the motherboard.

I have the Asus P5K Deluxe motherboard and it has 2 x PCI-E connectors free.

I have connected my hard drive to this card and run either HD Tach or HD Tune and its only running at sata 150.

If I do remove one of the satas off the motherboard and try it on there then I get the full speed.

On the board HD Tach shows aproximatly 250mbs and if plugged into the sata card it shows as about 125mbs.

The card says it supports up to 3gbs so im presuming that I must be doing something wrong..

Are there any settings in the bios that I have to change or is this running how it should be??

Any help is much appreciated as this is really doing my head in now as I have been toying with this problem for 3 days solid..

Thanks Guys
 
Also, press the key combination to enter the card's setup. It should give it when the BIOS initializes the card upon initial system boot. Once in setup check that the settings are set up correctly to accept the right speed.
 
The only jumpers on there are to enable or disable the sata ports which there are 4 of..

the 2 inner ones are on and the 2 outer ones are off..

Also there are no instructions on how to get into the cards bios on boot up.. nothing at all in the instruction book.

So i am stumped...

Can anyone help

the card I have is on 'www.st-lab.com' and in the search type 'A-331'

If anyone can help it would be great..

Thanks Guys
 
Regardless of whether the interface is running at SATA150 or SATA300 speed the drive isn't maxing it out. The burst speed you're getting from HDTach is irrelevant in real world use.

I'd just leave it as is and get on with life.
 
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