You can upgrade to USB 3.1!
I bought a new ZTC ASMedia ASM1142 USB 3.1 pci-e card. I put it in slot 7. When I booted up, I saw those old familiar memory errors from my H310 install. Covering pins 5 & 6 on the USB 3.1 card made the errors vanish.
I was then able to install the drivers in Windows 7 Pro 64-bit using the included mini CD.
Device Manager shows the driver to be version 1.16.23.0.
I will post back if I notice any bugs.
I bought a new ZTC ASMedia ASM1142 USB 3.1 pci-e card. I put it in slot 7. When I booted up, I saw those old familiar memory errors from my H310 install. Covering pins 5 & 6 on the USB 3.1 card made the errors vanish.
I was then able to install the drivers in Windows 7 Pro 64-bit using the included mini CD.
Device Manager shows the driver to be version 1.16.23.0.
I will post back if I notice any bugs.
Quote from: LambdaFox on December 05, 2016, 11:47:23 am
Update: The DELL PERC H310 Can Be Hacked Into the Z800!Quote from: malefic on December 04, 2016, 04:51:49 am
HP P410 works fine, i used it on my build with the 512MB and battery backed cache, also used a HP P400 and the standard LSI controller...all worked with my SAS 15K HDD's....
While waiting for my new P410, I installed Windows on my hard drive RAID using the on-board controller. That was slow slow slow. Noticably slower than the H310 had been. Did I mention it was SLOW???
This made me leary about using the P410 since it drops SATA down to SATA2. So, I did a little more digging on the H310.
I found this discussion about the H310 preventing machines from booting. Covering pins B5 and B6 with electrical tape solved my problem.
Some people in several discussions I saw were trying to change the firmware to LSI or other versions. I am using the standard latest firmware and drivers from Dell.
The errors regarding the bad memory are now gone. When I installed Windows 7 in spite of the errors, I noticed that the Intel controller did not show up in Device Manager. I originally thought this was probably because I had all the SATA ports and the option ROM for the controller disabled in the BIOS. This turns out not to be correct. With this hack the Intel Controller now shows in Device Manager, where I have Windows disable it after boot.
I will report any glitches I find, but so far it looks good!