Hiya I have a sata 1 motherboard on a windows 7 system Im trying to fit a pci e sata II card the question is do I need to install drivers first.ive gave it a try and the pc wont boot when i connect a ssd boot drive to the card, I thought it would just plug and play
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OS windows 7 64bit sp1 CPU I7 2700K @3.5GHz Motherboard GA-Z68XP-UD3P Memory Corsair 16GB PC3-12800 1600 MHz (4x4GB) Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6450 - 1 GB - (XFX) - Silent - (PCI-E) Sound Card none
PSU Corsair 600W (CMPSU-600CX) Case Cooler Master Sileo 500 - Silent Hard Drives 90GB Corsair Force Series 3 SATA 6Gb/s SSD and 1 TB Seagate ST31000524AS Barracuda SATA-III 7200RPM
Before connecting a drive to the card, install the drivers from the disc or the manufacturer's website. If you just installed the card and then hooked up a drive to the card, more than likely, Windows will not be able to see the drive.
System Manufacturer/Model Number Rig 1 OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 CPU AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition @ 3.4GHz (AM2+) Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P (AM2+) Memory Corsair CM2X4096-8500C5 (4 X 2GB) Graphics Card XFX Radeon HD 5770 / Diamond Radeon HD 5770 CrossFireX Sound Card Asus Xonar DS (PCI) Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 932bw+ (3) Screen Resolution 4320x900
Keyboard Logitech Desktop Wave Mouse Logitech LX8 Laser PSU Corsair CMPSU-750TX Case Cooler Master HAF 932 Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H50 Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 2 80 GB - Windows 7 System --
WD Caviar Black 1TB - Music, Movies, Vids, Pics --
WD Caviar Black 640GB - User Profiles & Games --
WD My Book 320GB external Internet Speed 20 down / 2 up Other Info LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray / HDDVD combo --
Hauppauge HVR-1250 --
Silverstone MFP-51 --
Logitech Webcam C600
OS windows 7 64bit sp1 CPU I7 2700K @3.5GHz Motherboard GA-Z68XP-UD3P Memory Corsair 16GB PC3-12800 1600 MHz (4x4GB) Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6450 - 1 GB - (XFX) - Silent - (PCI-E) Sound Card none
PSU Corsair 600W (CMPSU-600CX) Case Cooler Master Sileo 500 - Silent Hard Drives 90GB Corsair Force Series 3 SATA 6Gb/s SSD and 1 TB Seagate ST31000524AS Barracuda SATA-III 7200RPM