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I'm running Vista Home Premium. I have an esata external drive connected to Marvel. Itunes runs without problems.

I got mine from http://www.satacables.com. I've had it installed since March and is working fine. It was only $11 plus shipping, not a huge investment.

Not sure. I don't know how the red port differs from the other Marvel ports. I do know it works for me. Good luck.

Does anyone know if the current bios does fix the S3 standby issues?

Right, it doesn't use a pci slot. The bracket comes with the e-sata connector already built in. It just fits in one of the unused spaces where a pci card would attach. I got mine from a place called satacables.com. If you do a search for e-sata cables you'll find a couple of places that have them. I...

You need to buy a Sata to E-Sata pci bracket. It has an external e-sata connector with an internal sata connector. There is a wire that connects internally to the red port. It costs about ten dollars. Mine is connected to the Marvel red controller and works well with my seagate external e-sata hard ...

Also, there is a newer matrix storage driver available. It is version 6.2.1.1002 from January 07. You have to hunt for it but it is on the intel site.

I believe you loaded the wrong raid driver. What you want is the 82801 GR/GH driver.

Glad all is well. Building computers can be awfully frustrating. There is a lack of instruction available from the manufacturers. Luckily there are forums like this one available.
Rich

I meant in device manager for the controllers.

Look in control panel under storage controllers. You should see both the Intel and Marvell listed. If you do then you have the drivers. The other Marvell driver on the website installs a program that shows all the drives attached to the controller. I would be interested to know if it shows there. Th...

I'M talking about the Marvell raid controller drivers. You got a floppy for f6 install with the motherboard. In your application you don't need the f6 You need the driver on the intel website for Marvell Raid.

Do you have the proper cable? I bought a pci type adapter that has an e-sata connector externally with a sata connector wire which fits the red port on Marvell.

I assume you have installed the Marvell drivers? If so, all I did was power on the drive and it was recognized.

I have a seagate e-sata drive on the red sata Marvel Controller. This is what worked for me. I went into the Marvel Raid setup by pressing control-m . The controller recognized the drive. The only options were to define the kind of raid setup. I cancelled out and the drive was still recognized even ...

I have the same processer overclocked to 2.6. I have Corsair twin2x2048-6400C4 800mhz memory. The memory timings are 4-4-4-12 at 2.08v. Fsb set to 325. All at stock voltages. The only way to get a stable overclock for me was to disable Watchdog and C1E in the bios maintenance menu. My temps are IDU ...

Three beeps is a memory error. Make sure the memory is seated properly. If that doesn't work, try a new memory stick. Good luck.

Your response is the reason I started this discussion. I'm looking for the most trouble free configuration. Thanks for your response.

If I may ask, VDDOBREV, why did you elect to put your external drive on the Intel controller instead of the Marvell red port, supposedly designed for that.

Thanks for the reply. My system is much simpler than yours. Right now I use a usb external for backup but it is pretty full. Not sure if I even want to put an OS on the new Sata drive. Glad to hear that all is working on the Marvel controller. Did you install the new Marvel driver that was just post...