I just got a Mediasonic ESata pcie card today and installed it with the hope that it would fix the USB 3.0 issues I have been having (they are driving me nuts) So I got the card installed it and booted the machine it saw only two of the 8 drives but that was to be expected until I installed the drivers for the port multiplication which I had downloaded from the Mediasonic Website. I installed the drivers and restarted that is when the problems started first it wouldn't boot it would load the Asus screen but just spin and never start then I removed the drives and it booted but then it kept blue screening on me so the next time I booted it up I disabled the driver very quickly and killed the problem. Then I tried to install the firmware update that was listed on the support sight I used Rufus to create a bootable USB drive via the instructions on the site I then loaded the folder they had indicated onto the drive rebooted my PC and changed the boot order in the BIOS only to have the dual boot option pop up right away like there wasn't a bootable thumb drive inserted so I went back into the BIOS and enabled full usb support instead of partial and changed the CSM (I think that was the letters) settings but it still goes right to the boot menu I even tried numerous times with the same results (also know as insanity). So now I have a card that I can't use and have no use for if I can't get the portmultipliers to work and I can't update the firmware because I can't boot into DOS. I have a USB floppy drive (It was under 10$ on Amazon so I bought it just in case I came across a use for it) around here some where would it be possible to make a floppy and try to use that to boot into DOS
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