Strange bug on the KT7- RAID!!!

sutty

lo all

ok I just got my two IBM 30Gig 75GXP drives, and like any good computer nerd I thought "what would it be like to have these drives as a RAID 0 array at ATA100" (UDMA5).....quite nice I can tell you!!!!! windows loads in 15 seconds with all my drives and crap installed.

But I did have a very strange prob at the start (past two days). When I would start the computer with the RAID drive in UDMA5 mode it would crash(if I tried to do anything) so I tried to lower the modes it was using......in PIO 0 it would work fine but I lost a lot of speed. so after a bit of looking around, the good ppl at the boards for http://www.hardocp.com told me to try http://go.to/kt7faq after a bit of reading I found two probs that matched mine.

1)..A timing prob soon to be fixed in a BIOS update by highpoint. but until then you could try and higher your FSB by 1MHz.

2)..If you had a disk from your array on the second IDE RAID controller and a Hollywood+ card in a PCI slot on your system. The comp would crash and the HD light would stay on. The fix to this one is two things, first you could try to move the disk to be the slave on the first IDE RAID controller (losing out on some speed) or you could take out the card......as I'm running a 1.015Gz comp I figured I did not need the DXR3 card in my system (hollywood+ and the creative DXR3 are the same cards with diff frame ware)....so I took it out and now it works fine!!!!! This is also soon to be fixed but I just have to say ROFLMAO

The card just needs to be in a PCI slot no drivers and not even hooked up to anything and it will lock the system (even in D.O.S)




ps.....yes now I do have 60Gigs of RAID 0 sweetness!!!!!

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Ciaran Sutcliffe
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LOL Sutty

Boyz n there toyz heheeh
? for uz im up grading me motherboard to abit k7 and getting a thunderbird 1100 amd but i wondering if my powersuply with be enough coz its only a 200 watt ?will it or wont it?

also cdrom cdrrom hardrive have to be driven too

Stone

sutty

Good god man are you mad!!!!!!

no you'll never even get it to boot with a 200w psu, you'll need a 300w psu to be safe and get a stable use out of it. you have to remember that every thing in the comp will use power from the psu. if your thinking of getting a 1.1Gz T-bird you'll need a lot of cooling, a very good cpu heatsink and fan is the GlobleWin FOP38 but it is very very noise, I'v been told by Gerry that over the phone it sounds like I'm beside a plane or in traffic!!!. still it keeps the heat right down, you'll also need a good intake fan and an out take fan. the intake fan should blow right on to the heatsink (I'm using a 120mm fan that blows onto the heatsink and Ge-force DDR) but to get back on track..... a 300w psu is not very dear (30-50 pound) if your going to peats(i think i read your news post) I say don't. you can find a better price online try http://www.overclockers.co.uk but make sure the psu that you get is AMD approved.

hope some of this helps, if you have anymore probs just post here.

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Ciaran Sutcliffe
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redder88

Hey Stone!
Where were you thinking of getting your ABit kt7 from? I think they're kinda awkward to get. I got one recently from ITDirect in Dublin, but I had to twist their arms to get them to order it in especially. They were the only ones who would get it in for me (well that is they were the only ones I knew of.) Its kinda expensive aswell for a student such as myself, but It is a really cool board.

sutty

as i said overclockers.co.uk are the best to buy from, the two times i order from them i have got my stuff on the 3rd day. all there stuff is tested and the also have unlocked cpus

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Ciaran Sutcliffe
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Huuum
First up red peats do them for £156 so that wasnt to bad weather or not they come up with the goods is a different matter ? havent tried em yet.Sutty u da man hehehe £201 sterling for a thunderbird 1.2 wooooop ok its overclocked but garenteed whats the rate of stirling tho ?.Have to admit its getting abit trickyer than id have liked i hoped it would be a case of wacking in a new
mb and cpu maybe uping the power but now i have to ad fans in and out !!!!!!!.Ok what do you reckon ive got £600 irish to upgrade me knackered old 450 p3 btw i also have a gforce ddr power.So what do you think can i get what i need with that much money ?give or take a few sqids.Your wisdom greatly received HEHE

Stone

ps any ideas on a QUIET cooling system much cheapness hehe me no like noise my missus likes it even less

Damit just thought i have 128 meg pc100 memory and hopefully another 128 megs pc100 in the post.Do i need 133mhz ram for the new set up please just say NO hehe.

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Sutty

cool sight my shopping list came to £397.51 stirling power/300 watt fop cooling 1.2ghz thunderbird and a k7 mb sweet>

sutty

STONE old boy what can i say but............when i'm hot, I'm sh!t hot!!!

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