Open the INF file & make sure the right ID's are listed compared to what the system
has detected.
Sometimes you have to tell windows a driver is for a device explicitly depending on
how badly the driver is written. Likely Rosewill did not make this card themselves,
so I'd be looking into the OEM driver or vice-versa being concerned with the driver
you have being the OEM generic that Rosewill neglected to updated the INF to match
their PID.
Winterlight wrote:
About 18 months ago I wanted to add external SATA ports to one of my
PCs. Newegg had a sale plus rebate deal on a Rosewill RC-209 that was
too good to ignore... I think after I got the rebate it cost me 15
bucks. It is a 4 port RAID controller that can be set up with or without
external ports in just about any configuration you want. This is done by
hardware jumpers. They now have a RC-209 EX that is, according to their
site, identical with the one difference of < hot swapable> external ports.
18 months ago I tried to install it on a straightforward and 100 percent
compatible / reliable Intel 865PERL motherboard. I couldn't get it
installed because windows wouldn't recognize it and match it to the
driver. I tried moving it to other PCI slots with or without an
internal, or external drive configuration. Nothing worked. I wrote tech
support who never bothered to reply and eventually I decided that it had
to be something tweaked in XP2, so I pulled the card, and forgot about it.
Now I am redoing that computer for another job, and I have it in another
case, PS, video card, everything is new to the board including a new
install of XP2 and, like usual it runs great. So I thought I would try
the Rosewill again. Same problem. It is acting like a device that I am
trying to install the wrong driver to, like I have the b version of the
hardware and I am trying to install the d version drivers. I can force a
install but I end up with a yellow triangle.
The driver is 11 months old and there is a wide range of drivers posted
for everything from 98 through Vista 64. This time, after the correct
driver failed, I tried installing the driver for the new RC-209 EX
version, then I tried installing the driver for the onboard chip = SI
3114 , and while windows let me force the install, it also yellow
triangeled.
Any ideas?
BTW Rosewill sucks, Cheap crappy hardware.
