Card is installed and works fine in my Vista Ultimate x64 system. 4GB RAM. Primary drive is SATA connected to on-board. Storage drives are to be connected to controller card. System boots fine as long as drives aren't connected to card. Once drives connected, system sits at boot-up splash screen w/ knight rider status bar. Never boots.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
- 21 Apr 2009 #1My System Specs
VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
- 21 Apr 2009 #2My System Specs
Re: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
Do you have access to another graphics card ?
Try swapping them and see if that fixes the problem.
I had a video card wouldn't work with a computer, random reboots, sometimes it would hang up during boot. Put that card in another machine, worked fine. Put a different video card in the first machine, worked fine.
I couldn't find anything wrong with the computers nor the video card.
- 22 Apr 2009 #3
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My System SpecsRe: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
The reason it wont or boot off your SATA drive when you connect it, is because it is not a SATA controller. It is a controller for IDE drives.
Originally Posted by mattklump 
For VT6410, which is an IDE RAID controller, use ATA HDDs (not SATA)-or dont use this controller. Evidently you have a onboard SATA controller otherwise your SATA HDD would not load (unless switched to IDE mode)
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...5&ArticleID=54
Many SATA controllers offer selectable modes of operation: legacy Parallel ATA, standard AHCI-mode, or vendor-specific RAID. Intel recommends choosing RAID mode on their motherboards (which also enables AHCI) rather than the plain AHCI/SATA mode for maximum flexibility, due to the issues caused when the mode is switched once an operating system has already been installed.[2] Legacy-mode is a software backward-compatibility mechanism intended to allow the SATA-controller to run in legacy operating-systems which are not SATA-aware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ller_Interface
Unless you switched your HDD in the BIOS from ACHI to IDE, I dont know why you would be using a IDE storage controller for a SATA drive.
I would check your device manager for the storage controller, It should be a SCSI (if it wasnt Windows would not see your drive, and thus not load it). When you tell it to use a IDE (ATA) controller It will look for PATA/ATA Hard drives, then will not find it, and will not load the drive- thus Windows does not load.
This is the version 5.80c for Vista x64 SATA storage controller for Discrete Serial ATA RAID controllers VT6420/1 ( VT6420 VT6421 )
VT6410 IDE RAID controller ( VT6410 )
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...0&SubCatID=117
Last edited by rive0108; 22 Apr 2009 at 10:19 AM.
- 22 Apr 2009 #4My System Specs
Re: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
My bad. I hadn't included that the secondary (storage) drives were IDE. THat's why I'm using an IDE controller card. The on-board IDE controller is serving the optical drives.
- 22 Apr 2009 #5
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My System SpecsRe: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
If it is the Optical drive controller why are you connecting the SATA hard drives to it? I would check your BIOS settings. You evidently have an IDE/SATA controller- Originally Posted by mattklump
Most controllers for SATA will also support IDE. Let me ask you this; If you remove the VIA6410 PCI card, can you boot from both a CD/DVD, and then from the hard drive into Windows?
If you can, then way are you trying to install a IDE PCI controller?
Perhaps you should replace the VIA 6410 with a VIA VT64210/Vt6421/A PCI card If you are having problems.
- 22 Apr 2009 #6
DNPNWO Join Date : Sep 2007 Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA Posts : 2,083 Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 Local Time: 12:13 PM
My System SpecsRe: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
I have the VIA VT6421 controller and I also have two SATA hard drives in RAID, and a IDE optical drive.
- 22 Apr 2009 #7My System Specs
Re: VIA 6410 IDE controller PCI card problem.
If it is the Optical drive controller why are you connecting the SATA hard drives to it? -- It's not the optical drive controller. Per my post, the on-board IDE controller is the optical drive controller. The on-board SATA controller is serving the SATA (primary) drive.
Most controllers for SATA will also support IDE. Let me ask you this; If you remove the VIA6410 PCI card, can you boot from both a CD/DVD, and then from the hard drive into Windows? -- The system boots fine with the card installed. It only hangs when the IDE drive is connected to its port.
If you can, then way are you trying to install a IDE PCI controller? -- The controller is to serve the secondary drive(s) used for storage.
Perhaps you should replace the VIA 6410 with a VIA VT64210/Vt6421/A PCI card If you are having problems. -- That's what I'm trying to avoid. If the card is compatible with the proper drivers (which I've installed), then I'd like to use it.
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