laptop sata card

[warship]

Hi Guy's
Hope someone can help me,I have just purchased a sata card bus for my laptop all was going well until I disabled the sata and deleted the viamraid.sys file when I enabled the card again and got the yellow exclamation mark now jungleflasher says there is no sata port , before I deleted the viamraid.sys file it picked up the 360 drive no problem,I don't want to take the chance of liteon freeze by leaving the viamraid.sys file on my sysyem.

[technoe]

Most external laptop cards don't work. Lenovo made a laptop a while back that had an intel chipset with a built in external sata port that worked beautifully for flashing drives but I've yet to see an external adapter work even half as well. Sorry.

[warship]

Got it sorted done a lot of googling and found the answer,just flashed my elite to LT+ on my laptop .first time and no freeze.

[CoFree]

well man
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go to to detail on the steps you took

[warship]

if you are using a via pcmcia sata card with your laptop, there are a few things that you have to do to get it to work.

1. insert you cd that came with your via sata card in your drive and open the cd's folders. copy all folders onto your desktop.

2. download uniata drivers from the internet (google it).

3. go into the folders that you transferred from the cd onto desktop and look through folders (raid folder, drivers folder etc) and delete all viamraid. sys files.
(also delete them from recycle bin)

4. open the uniata folder and the uniata.sys, file, rename it to viamraid.sys. copy the file into the sub folders that you deleted viamraid.sys from on desktop

5. insert via pcmcia card into laptop and it should automatically find it and want to install drivers etc. at this stage, point it to the folders on desktop (manually installing instead of "have disk") and it will install everthing you need.

6. you should have a fully working via card with no freezes.

Nice to give something back....


One more thing : The install went as normal and I was prompted to reboot. After re-boot a found new hardware box popped up saying that a "UNIATA Management Port SCSI Net Device" had been found, I ignored this and cancelled the driver install, it is not needed. and don't delete viamraid.sys file you don't need to

[CoFree]

cool man
thanks

[lcddarkangel1]

how do you plug it into your laptop?
i have a dell E6400 and wanna flash with it.

[warship]

I purchased a PCMCIA via6421 card from hong kong got it yesterday works great done another two liteons this morning.