655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID PORT

(wonkanoby, can you use the force to help me on this one?)
Configuration:
MSI 655 Max FISR 6730 (non HT) MoBo
Antec True 400W
(2)Western Digital (10,000 rpm) Raptors
Intel P4 2.66ghz
MSI TI4800 8XAGP
Plextor 48/40/48 burner
MSI 52X CDROM
Problem:
The second SATA port is not working (ser2)
both drives have been tested and work fine. (ser1) shows the drives seperately in the array. (ser2) does not show either of the drives.
I have tried tons of different configurations, cleared CMOS, re-seated everything, disabled/re-enabled SATA in bios, still nothing.
???Does anyone have any ideas/tricks to get this (ser2) port working correctly so I can setup both harddrives???
Background:
I have already had to send back (MRA-NewEgg) this board one time because of a similar problem that I did not spend a lot of time troubleshooting. I know that a lot of people are having problems and that the SiS 655 sucks! :O This time I decided to troubleshoot and that it might be something small I was missing. No such luck. I do not feel like sending this back and losing another week of use on this workstation unless absolutely necessary. I do have this same board on a similar system with (2)SATA Seagate 7200 drives and it works great. I am really losing my respect for MSI though as I have never had a bad motherboard from other companies, and this is 2 in a row for MSI. I even tried this:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/index.php?threadid=18931&boardid=10&sid=2ffcacaf0448de534331ac97aaa46912
with no luck.
Advice:
If I can't get this working and return, I really do not want to get another 655 board. I have not read up yet on the (Canterwood 875P Chipset) boards from MSI. Has there been similar issues / problems with SATA Raid as the 655 has? Im thinking of just paying the restocking fee with NewEgg and going with an Intel Canterwood board. Sure, the overclocking is not as good as other manufacturers, but this is a work machine so it won't be OC anyway. I would rather go with stability. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Arcteryx-

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655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID-0 ?

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I am running into a small problem while upgrading a high end workstation at work and wondered if anyone was having the same problem, or could provide some advice. Here are the main specs.
-MSI 655 MAX-FISR (MS-6730) (No HT)
-Antec 400W power supply
-Intel P4 2.66Ghz 400/533Mhz Bus
-Crucial (2 sticks) 512mb DDR PC2700
Aligned in DIMM 1+3 as recommended by MSI
-MSI 128MB 8XAGP DDR Ti4200-Td8X
-Seagate (2 SATA) Barracuda Serial 80GB
In Raid-0
Here is my problem, and small but painful so far. The floppy controller on the 655 does not appear to be working. It registers in the BIOS and is setup to be the first boot device. When XP installation starts it asks to press F6 if you need to add SCSI,RAID,etc software. I press F6, and about a minute later it asks for the floppy with drivers for the onboard promise SATA software. Floppy does not initialize. The power lite just stays on. I tried to other floppy drives and another cable which I know work. Still nothing. I need to load this driver otherwise the SATA drives can not be seen by XP. I even tried it a different way with Seagate DiscWizard, but the boot floppy does not work that way either. I am thinking that the floppy controller on the board is bad. All the hardware is setup / configured properly. BIOS is all set.
Very frustrating, I hope that I am just missing something small. I have a tech support email sent to MSI. Thanks in advance if you can help.
Arcteryx~

Andy2 / Wonkanoby,
I will try flipping the cable now and the bios. Only thing is that the cable and board both have the cable guide tab that normally prevents you from putting the cable on the wrong way. Unless I really forced it on without paying attention. I have to go to another office but thank you for your quick response. Hopefully it is that simple.
Whipsnade, yes I have tried two other floppys and one other cable with the same results. Hopefully I will have a postive post when I try Andy2 / Wonkanoby recommendations.
Thank you all for the quick response!

655 Max FISR SATA & Video Card Troubles

Hi all
I put together my 655 Max FISR (non HT) based system 3 weeks ago and have had nothing but problems (this is the third PC I've built and it's the only one to have caused major problems). Initially the memory and video card were problematic, stopping me from installing Windows XP, but having read some of the other threads the poor old 655 seems to have lots of problems with various components.
My motherboard hated the Crucial Technology PC3200 512Mb memory (CT6464Z40B) I put in DIMM 1 and the MSI 5600U VTD-128 video card. Anyway suffice to say I solved the problems easily enough. I swapped the memory and the video card over with that in my MSI 645e Max U (the video card was a Connect 3D Radeon 7500 for info). The 645 runs beautifully with no problems whatsoever, unlike the 655!
I've now upgraded the Radeon 7500 to a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT which works really well. So if you are having problems with a card based on an nVidia chipset (which Win XP keeps saying has drivers that don't pass the compatability test) I'd try the ATI cards.
My main problem now is with the two Western Digital SATA drives I've got setup in a RAID 0 array.
Firstly I'm getting poor disk transfer rates (I used the SiSoftware Sandra utility to benchmark the file system, and got a really poor 23Mb/s). As an example Windows XP loads up in 1 minute 8 seconds from power on, unlike the 645 with a 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax 9 which does it in 45 seconds - I was getting Windows up in 32 seconds after initial installation of XP!!! Now I know I've got PC2100 memory in this machine, but it seems to have got slower since I did a driver and Windows XP update (hope this isn't anything to do with the I've downloaded).
The second problem is a bit more serious, one of my Raptor drives keeps dropping off line when I run either the error checking or defragmentation tools in Windows. The computer shuts down and re-boots only to tell me there's been a problem (a drive has failed or disconnected) before asking for a boot floppy. Fortunately, if I delete then redefine the array I get the system up and running again, but it is annoying! Problem is, with the 655's reputation, I don't know whether I have a motherboard, cable or drive problem. A limited trouble shoot by swapping over the drives has ascertained which one the system alleges to keep failing, but I'm now stuck, short of trying new cables, or buying a SATA RAID controller and sticking it in the 645 to see if it is one of the drives that's at fault.
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Best regards

Apologies for being away for a while, been busy with work & sorting out a pair of bad Raptors drives! Thanks for the replies from Hellwolf_36 and simps.
I can now report that after I'd worked out that I'd got not one but two damaged 74Gb WD Raptor drive (one had a lot of bad sectors and the other would take over two hours instead of 20 minutes to format which is why I was getting that stop message) and I had replaced the memory with one stick of the Kingston KV400X64C25/512 DDR, my 655 is now working quite well. I haven't got round to checking if I've got the latest C-media driver installed though.
One thing I did do though was set up my Raptor drives as two independant arrays (C: & D:) rather than RAIDing them. This is because, I didn't want to stripe the drives just in case of another failure, plus I have more flexibility over storage space not mirroring the drives, unti lI can afford to by another hard drive or two. Anyway they're really fast in the first place.
For this motherboard I wouldn't bother with any other type of memory other than the KV400X64C25 as recommended on the MSI website, as it's quite fast and no hassle, (can't wait to get my second 512Mb so I can go back to dual channel!!) Only problem is that the price has gone up a little bit over the past couple of months.
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I got some problems with my MSI 655-MAX FISR Motherboard. I play alot of Counter-Strike and when I play my comp freezes for about 5 seconds then I can move again for like 10-15 seconds then it freezes again for 5 seconds and so on. It does this over and over and frankly I don't know what the problem is. I have a Radeon 9000 128mb Pro and I tested a Radeon 9700 128mb Pro on it but it did the same thing. Could it be my memory or something???
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Dont forget now, Counter Strike is a Very Graphics Intensive 3D Game, And I am in NO way Knocking your Graphics Card But Understand that the Radeon 9000 is NOT Really Built For High Performance Gaming Card. You should Save up for a Higher Performance "Gaming GPU", I mean I have seen the All Powerful ATI-9700-Pro Advertized for $200.00US Dont Forget this Card was Over $400.00 1 Year AGO, and it is Just a Hair Bit Slower than the 9800-XT....Second, I think that You have answered your Own Question as Far as your Current RAM is Concerned, I mean I see where your 655-MAX Even Supports Up to PC-3200 (DDR-400MHZ) RAM >>> http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=655_Max-FISR If you were to Get Even 512MB of some Either Corsair, or Kingston "Value Series" RAM, Your Bandwith would Increase by Leaps and Bounds .
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OK so check this out.. I put together my new Workstation with 655 Max.. Right? Now I put it together with the tech at work.. Everything worked except the 10 mins wait to boot into windows.. And it happened right after I installed latest Nvidia Drivers..
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Now I go home with my machine looking to trouble shoot the video card right? Wrong.. Can't find Aray.. Now I plugged my machine in every single Outlet in my Apartment and I even used a APC and without a APC>. still can't find the Array.. Now I am thinking that people having this problem might be having fluxuations or Nosie in the electric. That is the only outcome I can come up with.. And for some reason I take it these Serial Ata drives must be very sensitve.. or the Motherboard must be sloppy or something.. I am not that technical but I can figure this much out so far.. Anyone want to back me up with my THeory?
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Originally posted by kaiguy
What setting are you using for memory timing/frequency? Try setting it to normal, and the CAS to BY SPD or auto (don't remember which).
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System Information report written at: 06/04/03 19:49:33
[Conflicts/Sharing]
Resource Device
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buenas wonkanoby
thanks for your reply. finally i made it work: its this freaky kingmax-ram....
i exchanged two of the kingmax modules by veritech modules and everything works fine now. instead i got problems now with an MSI 648Max-L Board from which i took the veritech memory......
so if anyone else reads this:
[size=15]IF YOU GOT AN MSI 655 MAX OR 648 MAX AND YOU WANNA USE TWO OR MORE MEMORY MODULES GET VERITECH DDR333/512MB (OR WHATEVER) BUT DEFINITELY NOT CRAPPY KINGMAX DDR333/512MB!!! [/SIZE]
cheers and enjoy :D

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2) As far as Memtest goes, how good is good enough before I should consider RMA'ing a RAM module? Should I expect perfect error-free Memtest scores?? Should I give the system to my friend and see if he experiences any crashes? I'm not sure at what point to be satisfied that the memory we have is good or defective.
Thanks.

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