I recently upgraded my PC with new 6th gen Intel i7 with a newer motherboard (Gigabyte Z170-HD3P), which unfortunately, like most newer motherboards, has only 6 SATA internal connectors and none e-Sata connectors, so I had to buy an external add-on SATA controller in order to plug in my external HDDs. I bought the Silicon Image Sil 3132 controller and was happy to see that it was immediately seen by the motherboard and BIOS. Unfortunately, while Windows 10 recognized the controller, found the driver for it and reported that the device works correctly, when I plug my external HDDs, Windows 10 starts to choke and become unusable. When I unplug the HDDs, the performance comes back to normal. After a lot of failed attempts (Flashing the BIOS to different versions [Base, Sataraid 5] accordingly changing the drivers, using older drivers), unfortunately nothing worked. I also need to report that I have my motherboard's most recent BIOS version (F5) and all newest drivers for the rest of the hardware (which is mostly brand new), including Intel's chipset and Rapid Storage.
This behavior reminded me of a driver issue I had with my old motherboard and its Marvell SATA controller when I had first upgraded to Windows 8 from Windows 7, and I had managed to solve it by using newest drivers. Intel Network Connections Drivers Windows 10 on this page. Unfortunately, there are no newer drivers for Sil 3132 from Silicon Image. I asked a question at Microsoft Community here: and they redirected me here. I've uploaded a WPT log file, following the steps described here: The link for the file is here: Is there any hope for me, or should I just quit trying to make this controller work? I am willing to provide you with any additional information you'd like to help you pinpoint the problem.
Thanks for your help. Hi Gpower2, To make a device work well, we should get compatible drivers. Please try to download the Windows 10 compatible drivers for those devices from the device manufacturer website(motherboard, hard drive, chipset). Based on EckiS`s analysis, we could try to perform a clean boot to have a troubleshoot. How to perform a clean boot in Windows Best regards Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com. Your logfile still contains disk access from mvraidsvc.exe, which is supposed to be a marvell service, although you are now using a SIL controller. Did you uninstall the marvell drivers? But then there is an UI delay by wsxservice.exe supposedly by 'Winstep Software Technologies'. After seeing processes like 'AAM Updates Notifier', 'AdjustService', 'AGSService' (this was only the ones beginning with 'A') I stopped investigating the logfile. Can you please please please test a clean install of Windows 10, without installing any Utilities, helpers, AV programs, firewalls and then test the performance again. Hi Gpower2, To make a device work well, we should get compatible drivers.
Please try to download the Windows 10 compatible drivers for those devices from the device manufacturer website(motherboard, hard drive, chipset). Based on EckiS`s analysis, we could try to perform a clean boot to have a troubleshoot. How to perform a clean boot in Windows Best regards Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
Overview This driver may be used to install an OS to support RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10 for the Silicon Image 3132 SATALink Controller. Use this driver with the. Softraid windows 10. PART I: Installing the device drivers for the RAID 5. Installing the device drivers for the RAID 5 controller card. 10) Another pop-up will. It should show “Silicon Image Sil 3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller”.
If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com. Hi Victor, Unfortunately I didn't manage to solve the issue with the drivers. I did a clean install with Windows 10 1511, but the issue remains. I had to buy a USB3 hub and new USB3 external HDD cases in order to use my HDDs. How To Delete All Drivers Windows 10.
Perhaps you could try to create a WPT log file, following the steps described here: and upload it to OneDrive and post it here, in case some MS expert can pinpoint the problem. Just thought I would throw this in mix too. It is not confined to Win 10. I have Win 10 at home without esata, but have an si3132 card in a Server 2008R2, which does recognize both the r(raid) and b(base) versions of the drivers.
I flashed the bios to latest using device manager, used pass-through, used striped with sataraid5 and all seems to work except PC starts bogging down and choking (as mentioned above). During a copy, it would start fast and slow down to not copying at all. A small portion of files actually got transferred. Extreme delays doing simple tasks. All kinds of 9 and 11 events relating si3132 in Event Viewer. I have given up. I used this to replace an old Promise esata card which was slower (by specs), and now I ordered a.
We will see how that goes. So just wanted to put out there that it may not be a Windows 10 issue with this card.
The motherboard was a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 with sata set to AHCI.
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