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Problem with adaptec 1430sa card??

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bwp73

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Okay, just want to run this by some of you guys and see what you think the problem may be.

Current WHS setup
MB - Intel DG45ID
Mem - 2GB Wintec
Video - Onboard
CPU - Celeron E3300 (2.5GHz)
Nic - Onboard
Cage - Icydock 4 Bay
Drives - 3 Hitachi 2TB, 1 WD 500GB and 1 Hitachi 1TB (In the cage and not in use right now)
Optical - Asus Bluray drive
Power - OCZ 500W

I'm trying to get the cage online but ran out of SATA ports so the Adaptec card was purchased. Since I don't have a PCIe x4 slot I have the Adaptec card installed in the PCIe x16 slot with one SATA drive installed in the cage. When powering the PC on everything comes up as normal but I have no video. No beep codes or anything to tell me something is wrong but you can tell that the pc is booting up to the OS. Now when I have nothing plugged into the SATA ports on the Adaptec card I get the same results, boots up but no video. Card removed, boot up is normal video is back. I did take a look in the bios and the only thing that I saw that might pertain to this was "Primary Video Adaptor" which I have set to Interal Graphics (IGD).

What I'm wondering is.....with the addition of the cage and the power it requires along with the one 1-TB drive in the cage and the Adaptec card do you think that I'm drawing too much power for the power supply and it's shutting down the video or could I be wrong and it's something totally different.

Thanks for any input.
 
IIRC, Intel G45 mobos had the issue where you could not add anything other than a video card in the PCI-E x16 slot.
 
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