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I bought a VIA VT6421A based SATA card for an 845 chipset based motherboard. The card is working i can access sata hdd from windows/linux. The problem is i can't directly boot from the sata card. My motherboard is award bios 6 based. I tried first boot as SCSI, its not worked. There is no Raid Bios screen appeared from the card. On searching i found , Add VT6421A bios to system bios as pci addon bios. I did it using cbrom6 , successfully added VT6421A bios to the existing bios. But now on booting instead of raid bios system bios showed Warning : something like cannot load add on rom for vendor id xxxx device id xxx . Whats wrong ? As the card is VT6421A based and i added VT6421A bios got from VIA website.

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What is the model and brand of motherboard you are using? – Jack B Nimble Jun 15 '09 at 7:01
I assume you are using "bootable add-in cards" in the boot order and not looking for the actual hard disk? – flashkube Jun 15 '09 at 19:44
Iam using a local(indian) 845 chipset based notherboard. Ther is no bootable addon card option in bios – Priyan R Jun 16 '09 at 4:10
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In my experience an add-on Mass Storage card should always show its BIOS 'boot text' regardless of Mainboard BIOS settings (assuming the addon card isn't really an integrated motherboard component).

Have you tried the card in another machine? Tried it in another PCI slot?

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Didn't try it on another motherboard, but i don't think its the problem of motherboard, I added the via vt6421a boot rom to my bios as an PCI addon rom, but its not working, bios shows some cannot load the addon rom – Priyan R Jun 22 '09 at 10:31
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