Bought this new sii3114ctu chipset card for SATA on a Gigabyte GA7-VX. It did not work well.
It works okay enough to POST and try and run winME setup but when trying to load the graphical installer, it chokes with the attached error code.
It looks like M$ should add a cause on their help page on this error.
It is most certainly the card doing this. When removed, I can install winME on the IDE bus.
There are several versions of the BIOS option ROM/firmware for those cards floating around; try flashing a different one?
jakethompson1 wrote on 2024-02-18, 23:41:There are several versions of the BIOS option ROM/firmware for those cards floating around; try flashing a different one?
Thought about that. I think I will return it instead of flashing an OPROM.
Have a look at this thread before you give up: SIL3114 sata card, need ide firmware.
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Repo Man11 wrote on 2024-02-19, 00:37:Have a look at this thread before you give up: SIL3114 sata card, need ide firmware.
I just tried the following steps and it failed to update the BIOS OPROM on each and every PCI slot on the machine. At the end the OPROM seemed well and truly ruined because it wouldn't even load the OPROM on boot.
zolli wrote on 2019-02-11, 22:42:I found this post on Sil3114 when trying to get things working on a P3B-F based machine I've been working on. I'm running DOS 6. […]
I found this post on Sil3114 when trying to get things working on a P3B-F based machine I've been working on. I'm running DOS 6.22 & Windows 98 (and Debian but that's not a primary use case.) I wanted to throw an old 1TB SATA drive into the machine for use with Windows 98 and had an old Sil3114 card sitting here. The card had the default RAID BIOS on it & since it was not straightforward to get things working I thought I'd post a quick HOWTO here.
1. You know your Sil3114 SATA card has the RAID BIOS if it gives an option at bootup time to enter a RAID utility via a Function key. (I forget which key.)
2. If you want the SATA card to be usable by DOS and Windows 9x, you need to flash it with the "base" BIOS.
3. On vogonsdrivers.com there is a driver package called "Silicon Image SiI3114 file collection" which contains the file "BIO-003114-x10_5403.zip". Unzip it. The file you need is called b5403.bin.
4. To flash b5403.bin onto the Sil3114 card you need to boot into DOS mode (either reboot Win9x into DOS mode or use a DOS boot floppy) then run the UPDFLASH.EXE utility found in the file (again, in the "Silicon Image Sil3114 file collection") "UpdFlash_v336.zip". Run the utility as follows:
A:> UPDFLASH.EXE B5403.BIN
5. If the utility complains about the flash being the same version as that found on your device, that's ok, continue anyway.
6. Reboot. After reboot, you should no longer see an option to enter the RAID utility for the card.
7. Plug in big SATA drives.
8. Partition the drives. (Don't use Win9x or DOS FDISK.) I used Linux (Debian) fdisk to create a FAT32 Win9x (LBA) partition which I then formatted using the mkfs.msdos utility. Keep your FAT32 partitions under 2TB in size.
9. Reboot into Win9x / DOS7+ & enjoy.
