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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Redgie on June 20, 2018, 04:11:35 pm

Title: Gigabyte motherboard not recognising Dell PERC 6i card
Post by: Redgie on June 20, 2018, 04:11:35 pm

I have a nice new Gigabyte B360M-D3H motherboard, and have fitted to it an old Dell (LSI) PERC 6i RAID card. The card isn't recognised in the BIOS as a storage device and no prompts come up during boot (normally a length initialisation process would come up).

I have tried:
- Using the RAID card in another PC (it works fine)
- Using another PCI-E card in the Gigabyte board (a network card) (which also works fine)
- Updating the motherboard's firmware (no change)
- Disabling all the onboard SATA controller (no change)

This is leading me to think it may be an incompatibility between this specific card and this specific board?

Thanks in advance :)

Title: Re: Gigabyte motherboard not recognising Dell PERC 6i card
Post by: shadowsports on June 21, 2018, 03:06:17 pm

Greetings,
I think you are correct.  The 6i is an x8 card.  I would only expect it to work in the top most slot (x16) if at all.  The other slots are x4 and x1   

(https://i.imgur.com/D42joS2.png)

Title: Re: Gigabyte motherboard not recognising Dell PERC 6i card
Post by: Redgie on June 26, 2018, 02:45:18 pm

Quote from: shadowsports on June 21, 2018, 03:06:17 pm

Greetings,
I think you are correct.  The 6i is an x8 card.  I would only expect it to work in the top most slot (x16) if at all.  The other slots are x4 and x1   

(https://i.imgur.com/D42joS2.png)

But I would expect an x8 card to work in a x16 slot?

Title: Re: Gigabyte motherboard not recognising Dell PERC 6i card
Post by: shadowsports on June 26, 2018, 02:58:16 pm

I would as well, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to like that card.  It may need an x8 slot...  I have never looked at the chipset.  An x4 card from another vendor will probably work.