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I really never figured out exactly what was wrong. Areca support seemed to think there wasn't enough Option Rom on the motherboard to support the card. I very well could have had a defective card. Either way, the Areca support was rather lacking. When I called Adaptec, the sales guy seemed to...

Thought the card was working good enough. Of course, I was wrong. It seemed to work until I turned off the external Raid and tried to reboot. Then, it still skipped the Boot BIOS on the Raid Card but it hung while trying to get into windows. I took out the card and the computer booted into...

Alright, I sort of got it working. The card BIOS is incompatible with the P6T Deluxe Motherboard. I tried it on a second identical P6T Deluxe Motherboard and it was having the same problems getting past the BIOS. Then I tried the card on an old MSI nVidia chipset motherboard and it worked...

@ jcolby - this is a good suggestion. I tried the card in all three available PCIe slots and got the same results. @ verncat05 - I glad to hear the Areca 1210 works with the P6T Deluxe. I agree it should work. Areca seems to think it should work too. Thanks for offering the help but if yours...

I finally got the Core i7 system together. I got 8 WD 1tb Black Drives (enabled TLER) and was hoping to making a nice Raid 6 with a new Areca 1680ix-8 Raid Controller. I put the 1680 into the second PCIe slot (the first slot is the graphics card). When I try to boot, I get stuck at the...