SATA drives causing pops and clicks?

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Sil chipset causes pops and clicks

Ok so I've been having problems for a week now. I seem to have isolated what is causing the issue to some degree but not how to fix it.

It all started with my delta 44. And getting a bunch of pops and clicks. In my computer I have 2x160gb SATA drive, and a cheap 5400rpm IDE drive.

I discovered that if I have my project files on the IDE drives, the pops and clicks go away.

I have come to the conclusion that its the Sil RAID controller interfering with things. I am trying to run my SATA drives in a non RAID configuration. I previously had them striped. I have deleted that RAID set. I now have them as two separate drives, but it still wants to run through the raid controller, and I stil have to install the raid drivers when running windows installer for it to see the drives in the first place.

Is this normal? I'm afraid I don't completely understand all of this stuff. I just want to run my drives as normal hard drives without all of that RAID bullshit, which is clearly fucking everything up. lol.

Is there anyway I can run the 2 drives as two separate drives without all this rubbish? I am reluctant to use my crappy old IDE drive, but if its not possible to use my SATA drives for audio without a serious degredation in sound quality, then I guess I will have to do that and eventually buy a good IDE drive and smack my SATA drives with a hammer....

Oh, I'm using the ASUS A7N8X-E mobo with the Sil 3112 controller.

If anyone has any idea how I can do this it would be much appreciated
 
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Have you gone into your Bios settings to see if there is a way to disable the Raid??(Hold down delete which booting up will usually get you into the Bios)...

My Motherboard has a Raid controller but with my system I just didn"t install the Raid Driver and just installed a SATA Driver and it works as a seperate SATA Drive....

You could also take out one of the Sata drives and then your system couldn"t configure it as a Raid...Or Partition each Drive differently which should also make it so that the Raid configuration would not work....



well good luck :)
 
Did a bit more research. Turns out that Delta cards and onboard Sil controller chip on my specific motherboard dont work well together. So I'm off to buy myself a sparkly new IDE drive. :D

Its like, it fine to have audio software on the SATA drive, but can;t have any audio streaming from them without getting hideous anomolies in the sound.

More alarming however, with a bit more reading, it turns out that those particular controller chipsets, in combination with the nforce chipset on said motherboard, are known to be responsible for data corruption without the most recent mainboard BIOS patch. Interesting how a motherboard that got such rave reviews can later turn out to be riddled with issues in that particular area.

Still, its always nice to learn these things...
 
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you could just uplug one of the sata's install windows (it allways asks you if you want to install a software raid system)ignor it.

once you've got windows installed re connect the sata goto start....settings...
controlpannel.....administator tools....computer management...storage....disk management.....and enable the drive

you will only have to do this if the drive does not appear in my computer

and don't forget to format it.
 
legionserial said:
Did a bit more research. Turns out that Delta cards and onboard Sil controller chip on my specific motherboard dont work well together. So I'm off to buy myself a sparkly new IDE drive. :D

Its like, it fine to have audio software on the SATA drive, but can;t have any audio streaming from them without getting hideous anomolies in the sound.
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Sounds like the SATA controller shares an interrupt with your audio interface to me....


legionserial said:
More alarming however, with a bit more reading, it turns out that those particular controller chipsets, in combination with the nforce chipset on said motherboard, are known to be responsible for data corruption without the most recent mainboard BIOS patch. Interesting how a motherboard that got such rave reviews can later turn out to be riddled with issues in that particular area.
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If you are seeing data corruption problems, there is probably something else wrong. The general consensus seems to be that the corruption concerns are overblown.
 
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