I'd say use an SSD over a CF card since they're faster and cheaper than CF cards.

Also, if more than 128GB then use rloew's TBPLUS - https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/TBPLUS/3.0/

My experience with SiL 3114 cards is that they don't work with most of the motherboards I've tried using them with. They seem to be resource hogs, so your best chance for making one work is to disable everything that you aren't using - serial, parallel, IDE ports - disable everything you can, and maybe it will work. Also try different PCI slots. I do have two AT motherboards that work fine with them; one is a TXP4 the other is a PCChips M520.

I use DeLock branded SiI3114 cards with the IDE bios supplied on the driver CD for all my systems ranging from socket 5 to socket 478. The only board that it didnt work on is a Dell Pentium Pro board without onboard IDE.

Try disabling the HPT366 controller in the BIOS and removing the network card.
Try moving the SiI3114 card to another PCI slot.
Use ''EXT'' as your first boot option.

And its Sii3114 not SIL3114.

Dorunkāku wrote on 2022-12-30, 19:54:

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I use DeLock branded SiI3114 cards with the IDE bios supplied on the driver CD for all my systems ranging from socket 5 to socket 478. The only board that it didnt work on is a Dell Pentium Pro board without onboard IDE.

Try disabling the HPT366 controller in the BIOS and removing the network card.
Try moving the SiI3114 card to another PCI slot.
Use ''EXT'' as your first boot option.

And its Sii3114 not SIL3114.

Do you know if the BIOS you are using is the same as the one from this thread? This is what I've used, and it does work with some motherboards, but I've had far more success with Promise IDE and SAT PCI cards. I'd be happy to try something different if it would work with more motherboards. Re: SIL3114 sata card, need ide firmware.

those sli cards aren't very good for old pcs

if u can get a PROMISE SATA 150 TX2 or the maxtor rebranded version those work great with basically everything and even have official windows 98 drivers offered by promise on there website under legacy drivers.

It is similar to my system.
But I have installed an ISA Sound Blaster and perhaps a better (passive cooled) graphics card with DVI output and 512 MB RAM.
I use a SATA to PATA adapter in a similar system with an 128 GB SSD.

The DVI output is useful to connect the graphics card with a passive DVI to HDMI adapter to a modern monitor or TV.