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    Bios Boot from PCIE sata controller on Aspire 5920g

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by venderbroeck, Oct 3, 2012.

  1. venderbroeck

    venderbroeck Newbie

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    Hello everybody, this is my first post on these forums.

    I'm trying to repair an Acer Aspire 5920g for a friend, and it seems to have a broken SATA controller. I noticed it had an Intel turbo boost memory card in a mini pcie slot, which isn't needed with enough ram in the system. I have bought a mini pcie sata controller to replace it with, and connected the internal harddrive to it. When booting it actually sees the sata controller card, and detects the harddisk, but I'm unable to boot from it.

    I thought this might be a BIOS problem, so I tried flashing the newest Bios, some modded BIOS, and the MXM BIOS from .netroller 3d.
    None of these seemed to solve the problem though. I couldn't find any new options for it in the BIOS either.

    The controller is based on the sil3132cnu chip. Should the aspire 5920g be able to boot from such a card? Is this problem BIOS related, and if so, is there any BIOS guru that could mod this functionality into the BIOS for this laptop? If this works, my friend would like to upgrade the CPU and GPU, so I think it would be best to mod it into the MXM BIOS.
     
    venderbroeck, Oct 3, 2012
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  2. .NetRolller 3D

    .NetRolller 3D Notebook Deity

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    Can you see the hard disk in the F12 boot menu?
     
    .NetRolller 3D, Oct 5, 2012
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