Strange problem hope someone can help!
A few months ago i bought a PCI SATA card when my old dvd writer broke so i could get a SATA writer that could be transferred when i got around to buying a new setup. I cant remember the brand name but it shows up as Sil 3512a when booting.
I also bought a SATA hard drive at the same time, a 320gb Seagate 7200.10.
Everything was working fine until about 2 weeks ago when i restarted and it wouldn't boot at all. Through process of elimination i found out it was when the SATA hard drive was plugged in that it wouldn't boot. It POSTs then shows the Sil 3512a screen and identifies the hard drive as being there, then goes to a black screen and does nothing. It wont even boot into anything else, a Windows cd, a Linux Live cd, anything that boots into its own program.
PC works fine with the SATA card and the dvd writer plugged in, i tried the hard drive in a friends pc which worked fine and using the card and the hard drive in my brothers pc works fine as well. So the card and hard drive appear to be ok just the combination of them and my pc refuse to work.
Any ideas?
A few months ago i bought a PCI SATA card when my old dvd writer broke so i could get a SATA writer that could be transferred when i got around to buying a new setup. I cant remember the brand name but it shows up as Sil 3512a when booting.
I also bought a SATA hard drive at the same time, a 320gb Seagate 7200.10.
Everything was working fine until about 2 weeks ago when i restarted and it wouldn't boot at all. Through process of elimination i found out it was when the SATA hard drive was plugged in that it wouldn't boot. It POSTs then shows the Sil 3512a screen and identifies the hard drive as being there, then goes to a black screen and does nothing. It wont even boot into anything else, a Windows cd, a Linux Live cd, anything that boots into its own program.
PC works fine with the SATA card and the dvd writer plugged in, i tried the hard drive in a friends pc which worked fine and using the card and the hard drive in my brothers pc works fine as well. So the card and hard drive appear to be ok just the combination of them and my pc refuse to work.
Any ideas?
