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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
Sorry this is a bit involved, its not half as confusing as the real thing though 8-) Gigabyte KN8SC-939 MOBO Athalon 3800 X2 Processor 2 GB RAM PNY Nvidia 6800GT Graphics 2 x 80Gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA HDDs Seasonic 500 Watt PSU Bespoke Case with more than enough cooling (IMO) CPU is nowhere near temp cutout but then has not actually done any real work yet. Having severe difficulty with this set up, Installed latest BIOS, All latest MOBO & VC Drivers I can find and I have been through the BIOS Settings many times but I am confused, it looks right, but I cannot tell if it is OK or not because the info I have is very basic and relates to RAID setup mainly, I don't want a RAID array just a couple of fast HDDs. POST is OK, SATA Drives are recognised, XP Installs just fine but for some reason at some point during the set up I get chkdsk errors on startup which clear OK but that is later followed by a re-start hang at the Windows Splash Screen. The hang can only be cleared by a "hard power reset and a "use last good config". A full power off, power on reboot works fine so I am a bit puzzled by this. I am not sure if the chkdsk / reboot problems are related but the one follows the other after a couple of re-starts, also I am not seeing the "saving settings" during the re-start power down which I reckon is significant. Tried to backtrack out of the problem by undoing my recent steps but no good. Cannot re-install an image as it is corrupt however a reformat / re-install followed by installing the same image works no problem so obviously the image is not corrupt. Eventually I got fed up and used 2 x IDE Drives instead, the setup went fine without any problems, which tells me its the MOBO / Drives / BIOS or all of the above but does not help much to solve the issue. PC is working very well but I want to use my SATA drives. I have tried the manufactorers websites for the MOBO and the HDDs FAQs but can find nothing useful. Any help - SATA / BIOS related how tos etc whatever would be appreciated. I have saved up and got the parts for this PC for a long time now and it is very frustrating not being able to use it. TIA Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
What BIOS is it? Someone might be able to walk you through it better if
they know that. Maybe this will help: Q: My motherboard comes with onboard RAID controller. Why can't I install OS or get into Windows when just install one SATA (IDE) HDD? A: The SATA (IDE) RAID feature is enabled by BIOS default setting. Please get into BIOS while BIOS POST, and make sure the RAID feature is disabled by related BIOS option. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...spx?FAQID=4651 BTW I just got two 80GB deskstars working in RAID 0 and it seems to work great so far. |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to
SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm "jonah" wrote: Sorry this is a bit involved, its not half as confusing as the real thing though 8-) Gigabyte KN8SC-939 MOBO Athalon 3800 X2 Processor 2 GB RAM PNY Nvidia 6800GT Graphics 2 x 80Gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA HDDs Seasonic 500 Watt PSU Bespoke Case with more than enough cooling (IMO) CPU is nowhere near temp cutout but then has not actually done any real work yet. Having severe difficulty with this set up, Installed latest BIOS, All latest MOBO & VC Drivers I can find and I have been through the BIOS Settings many times but I am confused, it looks right, but I cannot tell if it is OK or not because the info I have is very basic and relates to RAID setup mainly, I don't want a RAID array just a couple of fast HDDs. POST is OK, SATA Drives are recognised, XP Installs just fine but for some reason at some point during the set up I get chkdsk errors on startup which clear OK but that is later followed by a re-start hang at the Windows Splash Screen. The hang can only be cleared by a "hard power reset and a "use last good config". A full power off, power on reboot works fine so I am a bit puzzled by this. I am not sure if the chkdsk / reboot problems are related but the one follows the other after a couple of re-starts, also I am not seeing the "saving settings" during the re-start power down which I reckon is significant. Tried to backtrack out of the problem by undoing my recent steps but no good. Cannot re-install an image as it is corrupt however a reformat / re-install followed by installing the same image works no problem so obviously the image is not corrupt. Eventually I got fed up and used 2 x IDE Drives instead, the setup went fine without any problems, which tells me its the MOBO / Drives / BIOS or all of the above but does not help much to solve the issue. PC is working very well but I want to use my SATA drives. I have tried the manufactorers websites for the MOBO and the HDDs FAQs but can find nothing useful. Any help - SATA / BIOS related how tos etc whatever would be appreciated. I have saved up and got the parts for this PC for a long time now and it is very frustrating not being able to use it. TIA Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On 2 Mar 2006 20:35:16 -0800, "josh" wrote:
What BIOS is it? Someone might be able to walk you through it better if they know that. Maybe this will help: Q: My motherboard comes with onboard RAID controller. Why can't I install OS or get into Windows when just install one SATA (IDE) HDD? A: The SATA (IDE) RAID feature is enabled by BIOS default setting. Please get into BIOS while BIOS POST, and make sure the RAID feature is disabled by related BIOS option. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...spx?FAQID=4651 BTW I just got two 80GB deskstars working in RAID 0 and it seems to work great so far. Its Award V6 Flash v8 (latest) Yeah I tried that before, its OK up to a seemingly random point then all the re-start trouble begins. I am going to try adding the SATA drives as well as the PATA Drives and enabling RAID 0 as you have done then see what happens. What MOBO are you using? TBO I am a bit pig sick of this SATA stuff it all seems to be very poorly documented by Gigabyte for my MOBO and lobbed in as an afterthought, plus the BIOS settings are very obscure. I am drooling over those FaTility Lanparty MOBOs so I may just bin this one and upgrade again. I have other new boards around I will try the drives in a test PC Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 05:25:17 -0800, Andrew E.
wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm "jonah" wrote: snip RTFM eh? OK Andrew, done that and every bit of info I can find from Gigabyte, trouble is the documentation is both poorly written and very sparse. There are no SATA Control drivers to install via F6, only RAID drivers but you have a point it is possible that the drivers are not lmentioned in the manual but are on the disk. The BIOS options are very poorly documented and the translation from Chinese is terrible. Your link helped a lot with general explaination of what to look for so thanks a lot. Cheers Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
Andrew E. wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm Pardon me for interjecting here but I have to question this as I have installed SATA and RAID well after the OS was loaded and configured and had been running for 6 months. I followed procedures according to Intel for my D915PBL board. I have RAID and SATA enabled in BOIS and am only currently using non RAID setup. Could I possibly be taking a performance hit and not even know it? Cliff "jonah" wrote: Sorry this is a bit involved, its not half as confusing as the real thing though 8-) Gigabyte KN8SC-939 MOBO Athalon 3800 X2 Processor 2 GB RAM PNY Nvidia 6800GT Graphics 2 x 80Gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA HDDs Seasonic 500 Watt PSU Bespoke Case with more than enough cooling (IMO) CPU is nowhere near temp cutout but then has not actually done any real work yet. Having severe difficulty with this set up, Installed latest BIOS, All latest MOBO & VC Drivers I can find and I have been through the BIOS Settings many times but I am confused, it looks right, but I cannot tell if it is OK or not because the info I have is very basic and relates to RAID setup mainly, I don't want a RAID array just a couple of fast HDDs. POST is OK, SATA Drives are recognised, XP Installs just fine but for some reason at some point during the set up I get chkdsk errors on startup which clear OK but that is later followed by a re-start hang at the Windows Splash Screen. The hang can only be cleared by a "hard power reset and a "use last good config". A full power off, power on reboot works fine so I am a bit puzzled by this. I am not sure if the chkdsk / reboot problems are related but the one follows the other after a couple of re-starts, also I am not seeing the "saving settings" during the re-start power down which I reckon is significant. Tried to backtrack out of the problem by undoing my recent steps but no good. Cannot re-install an image as it is corrupt however a reformat / re-install followed by installing the same image works no problem so obviously the image is not corrupt. Eventually I got fed up and used 2 x IDE Drives instead, the setup went fine without any problems, which tells me its the MOBO / Drives / BIOS or all of the above but does not help much to solve the issue. PC is working very well but I want to use my SATA drives. I have tried the manufactorers websites for the MOBO and the HDDs FAQs but can find nothing useful. Any help - SATA / BIOS related how tos etc whatever would be appreciated. I have saved up and got the parts for this PC for a long time now and it is very frustrating not being able to use it. TIA Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:44:55 -0500, "cliff" wrote:
Andrew E. wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm Pardon me for interjecting here but I have to question this as I have installed SATA and RAID well after the OS was loaded and configured and had been running for 6 months. I followed procedures according to Intel for my D915PBL board. I have RAID and SATA enabled in BOIS and am only currently using non RAID setup. Could I possibly be taking a performance hit and not even know it? Cliff snip Dunno Clif but I am beginning to think I should have got a Intel board 8-) Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
jonah wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:44:55 -0500, "cliff" wrote: Andrew E. wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm Pardon me for interjecting here but I have to question this as I have installed SATA and RAID well after the OS was loaded and configured and had been running for 6 months. I followed procedures according to Intel for my D915PBL board. I have RAID and SATA enabled in BOIS and am only currently using non RAID setup. Could I possibly be taking a performance hit and not even know it? Cliff snip Dunno Clif but I am beginning to think I should have got a Intel board 8-) Jonah It's not to late. They are about the cheapest thing you can do to get the most fun out of. I love Intel with the Desktop Utilities for monitoring and testing the System. Fan controls are handy too. |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:15:17 -0500, "cliff" wrote:
jonah wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:44:55 -0500, "cliff" wrote: Andrew E. wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm Pardon me for interjecting here but I have to question this as I have installed SATA and RAID well after the OS was loaded and configured and had been running for 6 months. I followed procedures according to Intel for my D915PBL board. I have RAID and SATA enabled in BOIS and am only currently using non RAID setup. Could I possibly be taking a performance hit and not even know it? Cliff snip Dunno Clif but I am beginning to think I should have got a Intel board 8-) Jonah It's not to late. They are about the cheapest thing you can do to get the most fun out of. I love Intel with the Desktop Utilities for monitoring and testing the System. Fan controls are handy too. Yeah I know this machine is on a Intel D865G Board & 2.8 P4 processor but I need to do a serious upgrade so bang for buck wise AMD is the only way to go. I am doing increasing amounts of video production these days- boat sales and bike racing DVDs mainly - thats why I wanted SATA drives as part of the upgrade plan. I have a mate who is a games freak he has the latest FaTility MOBO and the silly money top spec AMD FX processor, liquid cooled, 2 x Gainward 7800 PCI Express cards, the whole bit, its amazingly fast and lit up like a christmas tree on coke. I am probably going to get the credit card out next week and trade what I have in for the same kit, now I have played with the best nothing else will do. Bugger it! 8-) Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
jonah wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:15:17 -0500, "cliff" wrote: jonah wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:44:55 -0500, "cliff" wrote: Andrew E. wrote: Read the owners manual....Otherwise,edit the integrated peripherals,set to SATA w/o RAID,in boot priority,set to bootable add-in device (enables SATA controller),plus,press F6 to install SATA controller drivers.You can view this at: http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm Pardon me for interjecting here but I have to question this as I have installed SATA and RAID well after the OS was loaded and configured and had been running for 6 months. I followed procedures according to Intel for my D915PBL board. I have RAID and SATA enabled in BOIS and am only currently using non RAID setup. Could I possibly be taking a performance hit and not even know it? Cliff snip Dunno Clif but I am beginning to think I should have got a Intel board 8-) Jonah It's not to late. They are about the cheapest thing you can do to get the most fun out of. I love Intel with the Desktop Utilities for monitoring and testing the System. Fan controls are handy too. Yeah I know this machine is on a Intel D865G Board & 2.8 P4 processor but I need to do a serious upgrade so bang for buck wise AMD is the only way to go. I am doing increasing amounts of video production these days- boat sales and bike racing DVDs mainly - thats why I wanted SATA drives as part of the upgrade plan. I have a mate who is a games freak he has the latest FaTility MOBO and the silly money top spec AMD FX processor, liquid cooled, 2 x Gainward 7800 PCI Express cards, the whole bit, its amazingly fast and lit up like a christmas tree on coke. I am probably going to get the credit card out next week and trade what I have in for the same kit, now I have played with the best nothing else will do. Bugger it! 8-) Jonah AMD, Intel, it is far more than a processor that makes a good System. I have no games what so ever and I am running a P4 630 Dual/HT 2 G DDR2 WD Raptor SATA and Maxtor SATA/IDE with Xtasy X850XT PCI-e on an Intel D915PBL main board. All just for CAD/Video/Photo. No competition there so my old System will stay old for awhile longer. I can say that SATA is working fine. I am not all that impressed by a modest read/write increase. I was hoping for more but boot time is short. I have an old relic P4 2.4 on an Intel D845GBV Desktop board that this System replaced last fall and it is just sitting there as a DVR. Good old Intel and SATA computability. Cliff |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
1) validate your ram by running memtest86+ from floppy. even one error is
bad bad bad - correct that issue before procedding. 2) in bios, ensure APIC Mode is "enabled" (this is not ACPI, but APIC; many amd bios' default this to disabled, for xp you want it enabled. some bios' don't even list it anymore tho, so if you cant find it after a careful look then "never mind".) 3) even if you don't set up a raid, you probably need to install the sata chip's drivers at XP Setup time, via the F6 prompt. For nForce 4, you need to select TWO drivers, one after then other, before proceeding - read the MB docs, or go to the nForce site. VIA and Promise have a single driver. [This often hangs peple up, they think its only needed for raid.] Your friend with the fatality system should be able to help. Good luck, that's a good system, you'll get it working w/o regrets. -------- try googleing your MB's name and the words SATA and RAID, as in ASUS KV9 SATA RAID (w/o quotes). try in both google WEB and google GROUPS |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:44:14 -0500, "cliff" wrote:
snip Yeah I know this machine is on a Intel D865G Board & 2.8 P4 processor but I need to do a serious upgrade so bang for buck wise AMD is the only way to go. I am doing increasing amounts of video production these days- boat sales and bike racing DVDs mainly - thats why I wanted SATA drives as part of the upgrade plan. I have a mate who is a games freak he has the latest FaTility MOBO and the silly money top spec AMD FX processor, liquid cooled, 2 x Gainward 7800 PCI Express cards, the whole bit, its amazingly fast and lit up like a christmas tree on coke. I am probably going to get the credit card out next week and trade what I have in for the same kit, now I have played with the best nothing else will do. Bugger it! 8-) Jonah AMD, Intel, it is far more than a processor that makes a good System. I have no games what so ever and I am running a P4 630 Dual/HT 2 G DDR2 WD Raptor SATA and Maxtor SATA/IDE with Xtasy X850XT PCI-e on an Intel D915PBL main board. All just for CAD/Video/Photo. No competition there so my old System will stay old for awhile longer. I can say that SATA is working fine. I am not all that impressed by a modest read/write increase. I was hoping for more but boot time is short. I have an old relic P4 2.4 on an Intel D845GBV Desktop board that this System replaced last fall and it is just sitting there as a DVR. Good old Intel and SATA computability. Cliff Cliff I mean I am changing the entire system for a duplicate of my mates games system, I will trade what I have in and credit card the rest. Most importantly I know his system runs without problems on the SATA Drives he has installed and it is lightning fast also I can get direct help in setting it up should I need to. Only problem is thinking up a good stroy to run past the wife re why I need to spend several K on PC bits. Mind you she can get through that kind of cash on a couple of outfits with shoes and handbags so you would be forgiven for thinking it should be no problem. I wish! Jonah |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
jonah wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:44:14 -0500, "cliff" wrote: snip Yeah I know this machine is on a Intel D865G Board & 2.8 P4 processor but I need to do a serious upgrade so bang for buck wise AMD is the only way to go. I am doing increasing amounts of video production these days- boat sales and bike racing DVDs mainly - thats why I wanted SATA drives as part of the upgrade plan. I have a mate who is a games freak he has the latest FaTility MOBO and the silly money top spec AMD FX processor, liquid cooled, 2 x Gainward 7800 PCI Express cards, the whole bit, its amazingly fast and lit up like a christmas tree on coke. I am probably going to get the credit card out next week and trade what I have in for the same kit, now I have played with the best nothing else will do. Bugger it! 8-) Jonah AMD, Intel, it is far more than a processor that makes a good System. I have no games what so ever and I am running a P4 630 Dual/HT 2 G DDR2 WD Raptor SATA and Maxtor SATA/IDE with Xtasy X850XT PCI-e on an Intel D915PBL main board. All just for CAD/Video/Photo. No competition there so my old System will stay old for awhile longer. I can say that SATA is working fine. I am not all that impressed by a modest read/write increase. I was hoping for more but boot time is short. I have an old relic P4 2.4 on an Intel D845GBV Desktop board that this System replaced last fall and it is just sitting there as a DVR. Good old Intel and SATA computability. Cliff Cliff I mean I am changing the entire system for a duplicate of my mates games system, I will trade what I have in and credit card the rest. Most importantly I know his system runs without problems on the SATA Drives he has installed and it is lightning fast also I can get direct help in setting it up should I need to. Only problem is thinking up a good stroy to run past the wife re why I need to spend several K on PC bits. Mind you she can get through that kind of cash on a couple of outfits with shoes and handbags so you would be forgiven for thinking it should be no problem. I wish! Jonah Good luck and keep us posted. Cliff |
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SATA Help Please - (Complicated)
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 07:43:11 -0500, "cliff" wrote:
snip Cliff Cliff I mean I am changing the entire system for a duplicate of my mates games system, I will trade what I have in and credit card the rest. Most importantly I know his system runs without problems on the SATA Drives he has installed and it is lightning fast also I can get direct help in setting it up should I need to. Only problem is thinking up a good stroy to run past the wife re why I need to spend several K on PC bits. Mind you she can get through that kind of cash on a couple of outfits with shoes and handbags so you would be forgiven for thinking it should be no problem. I wish! Jonah Good luck and keep us posted. Cliff Ordered Parts - Credit Card now seriously ****ed off. Still need a story Any ideas???? 8-) Jonah |
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