- Apr 5, 2001
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I bought this Syba SI-MPE40095 Mini PCI-e SATA RAID controller, ASM1061R chip.
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1599
VEN_1B21&DEV_0622
I put it on an MSI AM1I motherboard w/AMD 5350 and 8GB RAM.
No drivers came with the card, and none available to download. Supposedly, it's compatible with Windows Standard AHCI Controller driver.
Desired OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. If I boot up the machine using the motherboard's AMD SATA controller, it detects the card as Standard AHCI Controller. Any drives plugged into it show up as "Other Devices" and not drives. They don't show up in Disk Management so I can't assign them drive letters or make them Online. I Googled and found some Asmedia 106x drivers, v.2.0.4.0000 for Windows 8.1. Windows does recognize those drivers as matching the card, but if I do a manual driver install, the computer spontaneously reboots. If I install from Setup, it also spontaneously reboots.
For no particular reason, I tried installing Windows 10 Build 10130. It recognized the card and I was able to do a clean install to a fresh drive and it works just fine, drives show up as "Hard Drive", so I know the card is good. Windows 10 uses the Standard AHCI Controller driver as well.
So I decide to try a clean install of Windows Server 2012 R2. It doesn't see the controller, doesn't see the drive. Same problem as the pre-existing Windows install. I tried loading the Asmedia drivers from the installation screen, and the drivers from the SCSI folder are detected and do nothing, the drivers from the STOR folder causes a BSOD, but no specific error. Since 2012 R2 is built on Windows 8.1, I tried clean installing Windows 8.1. Same story, no drives detected, SCSI driver does nothing, STOR driver BSODs.
Since Windows 10 worked, I tried replacing storahci.sys on the existing Windows 2012 R2 setup with the version from Windows 10. This required me to turn off driver signing. It does recognize the controller, but same problem with drives showing up as "Other Devices".
Decided to try the Asmedia drivers in the working Windows 10 install. It detects and uses the driver from the STOR folder, but BSODs in asstor64.sys with DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Every time it boots now, it goes straight to that BSOD.
Not sure what else to try. Also tried the Asmedia 2.0.3.0 driver and same result.
Syba customer support told me simply to "install the drivers". Gee, thanks.
Any ideas?
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1599
VEN_1B21&DEV_0622
I put it on an MSI AM1I motherboard w/AMD 5350 and 8GB RAM.
No drivers came with the card, and none available to download. Supposedly, it's compatible with Windows Standard AHCI Controller driver.
Desired OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. If I boot up the machine using the motherboard's AMD SATA controller, it detects the card as Standard AHCI Controller. Any drives plugged into it show up as "Other Devices" and not drives. They don't show up in Disk Management so I can't assign them drive letters or make them Online. I Googled and found some Asmedia 106x drivers, v.2.0.4.0000 for Windows 8.1. Windows does recognize those drivers as matching the card, but if I do a manual driver install, the computer spontaneously reboots. If I install from Setup, it also spontaneously reboots.
For no particular reason, I tried installing Windows 10 Build 10130. It recognized the card and I was able to do a clean install to a fresh drive and it works just fine, drives show up as "Hard Drive", so I know the card is good. Windows 10 uses the Standard AHCI Controller driver as well.
So I decide to try a clean install of Windows Server 2012 R2. It doesn't see the controller, doesn't see the drive. Same problem as the pre-existing Windows install. I tried loading the Asmedia drivers from the installation screen, and the drivers from the SCSI folder are detected and do nothing, the drivers from the STOR folder causes a BSOD, but no specific error. Since 2012 R2 is built on Windows 8.1, I tried clean installing Windows 8.1. Same story, no drives detected, SCSI driver does nothing, STOR driver BSODs.
Since Windows 10 worked, I tried replacing storahci.sys on the existing Windows 2012 R2 setup with the version from Windows 10. This required me to turn off driver signing. It does recognize the controller, but same problem with drives showing up as "Other Devices".
Decided to try the Asmedia drivers in the working Windows 10 install. It detects and uses the driver from the STOR folder, but BSODs in asstor64.sys with DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Every time it boots now, it goes straight to that BSOD.
Not sure what else to try. Also tried the Asmedia 2.0.3.0 driver and same result.
Syba customer support told me simply to "install the drivers". Gee, thanks.
Any ideas?