875P Neo/Boot from Serial ATA Raptor?

Hi all,
I am building a new system with a 875P Neo-LSR motherboard and Serial ATA Raptor drive that I want to install Windows XP on/boot from. I have it so Window's sees my Raptor drive but it won't let me format the drive. Any ideas???
The manual tells me to refer to "Serial ATA/Serial ATA Raid Manual"...well I haven't been able to find that...
I setup via a message I saw from JC74:
- operate mode should be Native
- ATA configuration S-ATA only
- keep P-ATA enabled Yes
- P-ATA channel select both
- S-ATA ports definition (first option)
- Configute S-ATA as RAID no (JC74 recommended Yes but I'm not setting up RAID)
This setup lets Windows XP see the drive but not format it.
I also downloaded the Intel ICH5R drivers on this website and as I booted up XP I attempted to load those drivers and got:
"File iastor.sys caused unexpected error(512) at line 2108 in d:\xpclient\base\..."
I'm stuck at this point ?(
Hopefully someone can help...thanks,
Ken

I read a post by wonkanoby that said that for WD drives make them jumperless so I removed the jumper that was in the right most side (its OEM so no manual...).
He also said to set boot order to cdrom, raid so I did that as well.
I also disconnected my WD 200GD.
After making all these changes I am now able to format the drive. I'm not sure what fixed the problem.
Knock on wood...hopefully I can get everything else working

Similar Messages

Upgrading from Serial ATA to SSD

Seemingly, upgrading laptop components through Apple is very expensive. RAM and hard drives to name a few. For instance, Apple quoted me on an upgrade from 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM to 2GB at $400. I just went and bought/installed 2 new sticks myself for $25.
I had the same idea for upgrading from a Serial ATA drive to a Solid State Drive. I was wondering how compatible is the existing slot inside the Macbook Pro?
When I upgraded my RAM, all I had to do was find the right specifications and voila, just remove the old sticks and insert the new ones. Is the process the same for converting from Serial ATA to SSD?
Thanks, Alex

Serial ATA is the interface used to connect the hard drive to your computer. SSDs use serial ATA connection, so there's no problem.

I have to enter the winxp cd to boot from s-ata drive

Yes! Really O_O
First with the drivers included on the sata disk, win xp wouldn't even install properly. Then my brother downloaded some new ones from the webbie and then I could get through the initial setup of windows xp. So everything worked then till I removed my win xp cd from my drive and tried rebooting ... nothing.. just stays put on the ms-dos type screens. If I enter my win xp cd again it asks me if I want to boot from it and when I just let it time-out it starts windows.
Very annoying. Am I doing something wrong or will a new bios fix this too?
Also I couldn't boot the board with an Aopen GF4 Ti4200, it boots perfectly fine on my old Epox nForce2 8RDA3+ board so It can't be the graphics card right? All it does is spin my fans a little and then shuts down. It boots fine with my 9700Pro and GF2 MX tho. I have a 380W PSU so it can't be that right? O_o
I have MSI K8N Neo Platinum with bios 1.1
Thanks in advance

I had almost exactly the same problem, but with more "disk" options to be confused by....
After I got my Power Supply problem fixed yesterday, I then found that the machine would usually boot, but then sometimes it would not boot at all - I was just getting a black screen.
I noticed that it would sometimes try to boot (or perhaps jump back to POST) if I opened and closed the DVD drive (I have 2, 1 a writer).
On reading this thread, I realised (and confirmed by testing) that the times Windows was booting OK were when I had CDROM set as my first boot device, and the WinXP disk was in the drive. This got me to thinking.
What I thought was that the BIOS must be changing the drive assignments somehow so that the windows boot loader doesn't know how to find the relevant Windows disk/partition.
In my case the disk arrangement is rather complicated (I've got 4 physical HDDs set up with 2 of them in a RAID array (i.e. 3 physical disk volumes visible in Windows), and overall have 8 logical partitions on these 3 volumes). Because of the problems I've been having, I've also had Windows installed on the 2nd partition of each of the 3 volumes at one time or another!
Anyway, after a lot of grief and 4 hours of trying lots of different things, the solution proved simple, I just went into Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery Settings and chose "edit startup options manually":
This allows you to edit the main "boot.ini" file so that you can choose which operating system to load in a multi-boot configuration. I had an entry which read:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
Basically this told the system to boot from the 2nd "rdisk" (the first would be rdisk(0)) and from the 2nd partition on that disk. There's more info about this here: http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips136.shtml
Most people with XP on a single HDD would have an entry reading: "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS" which means the first partion on the first disk.
I added a new line which read:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Rdisk2)" /fastdetect
This gave me an extra option in the boot menu, and without the CDROM in the drive (or with the first boot device set to "floppy") if I choose the "R2" option this then boots properly into my main XP directory (on the 2nd partition of the 2nd physical disk).
Basically, I think there may be a BIOS fault which sets the physical disk references incorrectly if there is a bootable CD in the drive.
I don't know how one can fix this, but at least by having both options in boot.ini I can boot into Windows without the CDROM in the drive!
In your case, the reference to "rdisk(0)" is presumably pointing to the correct disk (SATA) when the CD is in and your second disk (PATA) when it is out. To sort this you could presumably add various lines to the SATA disk's boot.ini to enable you to correctly boot to either drive as desired:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP SATA (CD in)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP SATA (CD out)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP PATA (CD in)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP PATA (CD out)" /fastdetect
Cheers,
David

? on K8T-Neo's factory Serial ATA cables

The orange Serial ATA cables that come with the MSI K8T Neo motherboard - are those male or female connectors?
Also, I noticed that the cables are almost 2 feet long. Does anyone know where I can get shorter Serial ATA cables?
Any information is appreciated! :-)
[Countdown to HyperX memory arriving in the mail: 3 days!]

...it doesn't matter which end you plug into the HDD or the mobo...I guess you would call them male...check online vendors for shorter ones...different colors...fluorescent ones...etc...

PT880 Neo (VIA Chipset) Serial ATA Driver needed!

I have just recently built a computer with a NEO PT880 Motherboard along with a Seagate Baracuda 120gb HDD with Serial ATA support, however, W2k does not detect the hdd (because of it being SATA), the bios does see it, yet I need the drivers to install it but the motherboard did not come with a floppy to install the driver during W2k 'F6' prompt, any ideas or can you point to where I can grab the proper drivers? Thanks.

I need this too, didnt get a diskette and cant finish building this new computer :( Anyone have it?

P965 Neo: Boot from USB-Stick problem

Hi!
I have a problem with booting from a USB-Stick (FAT) with the P965 Neo board, Bios Version 1.5.
The USB-Stick will not be detected properly as a boot device (HDD) in the bios setup. It appeared only
once at the 'Hard Disk Boot Priority' list and sporadically at the 'CD-ROM Boot Priority' list (which is not always there).
Can anyone please point me to the correct bios setting to boot properly from the USB Stick?
(Booting from the USB Stick works fine on a ASUS board, so the USB Stick itself is bootable).
Here is my attached hardware:
SATA Harddrive
IDE DVD Burner
(both connected to the JMicron SATA/IDE controller)
thanks,
-phazer-

I use software called "Flashboot" to format my USB Stick, this software has options to format USB stick as USB-FDD, USB-ZIP or USB-HDD. You can use built in Free-DOS as your USB Stick OS. I have formated it as USB-ZIP and set my BIOS to boot with USB-ZIP and i didn't have any problems. Try this software it's very simple to use and user friendly. Only problem is that is not freeware so if you use trial version you can boot only once and after that you must format it again.

IMac 20" Core 2 Duo - Boot from P-ATA?

As far as it seems my iMac's 20" S-ATA controller broke, I was thinking to either boot it up from an external FW drive (cables, power adapter, very little friendly by the way) or to remove the optical drive (which is not S-ATA but P-ATA) and to install a hard drive in its place to keep using the computer.
I guess the machine can boot from the P-ATA controller since it does when using the install DVD but, if possible, how then I do to install the OS, via target mode in FW?
What you think about it?
thank you

I have a coiuple macbooks and an air newer than the iMac but it's a pity to throw it away, it would still be a good machine for general use and, say, as a media server over the network.
thank you for your suggestion

MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R support booting from USB devices?

I am building a super computer using the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R. I would like to either get a USB pen drive, or an external Floppy Disk Drive in place of an internal Floppy Disk Drive.
Does anyone know if this board supports booting from a USB device?

I ordered my board as well, however, they were out of stock and it may be as long as 2 weeks before they get more in. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get yours from? I am VERY much excited about getting this board as I only await the MB and CPU. What all are you putting in yours??
Mine:
MB- Obvious
CPU- 2.4 800Mhz
RAM- 2 sticks, 256 PC 3200 XMS Corsair using dual channel, at first I think I will use the 512 pc3200 I already have though.
HDD- 80GIG W/D 7200 RPM ( May get another to run RAID 0)
VGU- Chaintech TI4200 at 8x w/ 128 DDR
CD#1- 52x cd rom
CD#2- dvd 16x, cdr 48 cdrw24 cdrom 48
500W raidmax Pwr Sup
Koolcases Panther case w/ window and 3 80MM/ 1 60MM fans
For now I will even use the old 3.5 A drive. Just in case.
Red light internaly
Digidoc 5 for thermal monitoring on:
1.cpu 2.ram 3.VGU 4.case 5.HDD 6.other ram 7.chipset 8.dvd for curiousity sake. just curious of the temps they produce. but always able to move it to a more vital area if the need arises.
Will be upgrading to liquid cooling in the future, that way when I am deployed the temps stay in the blue. (HOPEFULLY)

875p Neo-FIS2R - won't boot from CD

I am assuming I had a hard drive failure, but not certain. This was and old (9 years) hard IDE hard drive. My PC would no longer boot, saying "Boot Failure." I was able to boot with the WinXP cd and it did not see the hard drive. When booting with the CD, it took a LONG time to move from the splash screen into the CD boot process.
I bought a new SATA hard drive hoping that would solve the problem but no success. I attached the new drive to SER1. I can see it in the BIOS along with the CD/DVD drive. Both are selected in the boot order, but it will not boot to the CD with WinXP on it. The CD was on IDE 2 master. I moved to IDE 1 master and it made no difference. I turned off the splash screen and it says it is attempting to boot from CD/DVD but then fails.
The CD/DVD drive was just replaced with a new unit in November 2010. The power supply was also replaced in November (430w).
Any ideas? Thanks!

I got it to work. I tried a new IDE cable and that didn't help. Neither did trying to load from a DVD.
Finally, I put an old (broken) IDE hard drive on IDE 2 (CD is no IDE 1, new SATA hard drive on IDE 3). When I turned it on, it was searching for the second IDE master for a while, so I had it abort. It then booted right up with the WinXP CD. The Windows CD then got stuck at one point trying to access the broked IDE drive (just kept making a clanking noise). So I removed the power from that drive and the Windows install proceeded, and now everything works fine. I reconnected the other SATA drives (four in total) now and removed the IDE 2 cable completely.
Any ideas why it worked this way? It seems and IDE hard drive had to be connected to get the CD/DVD to boot. I have not tried booting to the CD again, now that everything is working. I will try that just to see what happens.

Problem with S-ATA optical drive(MSI 875P Neo)

Ahoy MSIers,
I am in a most dire situation, and before I go to spend money on some computer-tech guy to solve my problem, I thought maybe you could help me.
*My PC specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood C 2800Mhz
MSI 875P Neo
A-DATA 512Mb RAM DDR 400 * 2(1024)
PowerColor Radeon 9800Pro
Western Digital Hard Drive 80Gb 8Mb buffer P-ATA
Pioneer DVR-212D S-ATA (The main issue here)
Bios - AMIBIOS - VERSION 3.31a
Windows XP Pro - SP2
Until 2 days ago I owned an MSI CD(P-ATA) burner which was virtually dead.
2 days ago, It died completely, So I decided that I will not just replace a CD burner for a CD burner... no! I will buy myself a new shiny DVD burner!
So I bought myself a Pioneer DVR-212D(S-ATA) and I went on with installing it.
I plugged the Serial Power Cable from the PSU to the drive, and connected the drive and the S-ATA port on my M-Board with a serial-ata cable.
I booted up, and found that the device was nowhere to be found although power is being transferred to it(the drive opens and closes when pressing it's eject button).
I searched the net and found that I was supposed to "enable" S-ATA in my BIOS.
Tried that, yet every setting I tried besides the default setting gives makes the computer freeze for a few minutes at the MSI logo and then a "friendly" error massage appears, usually it's something like
"4th master drive ATAPI incompatible" ( the number changes, I haven't got a clue why).
Searched the net a bit more and found almost nothing... most s-ata "problems" were about booting from a s-ata hard drive....
I am getting desperate, So in order to maximize the chances of me getting help solving this issue, I took a few pictures of the BIOS and the inside of my case... maybe it will help, I dunno.
Here are some pics:
The S-ATA cable connected to the Mother-Board
Back of the DVD burner with the S-ATA cable attached
BIOS - standard CMOS features
BIOS - Integrated Peripherals
On-Chip IDE configuration
P.S
I have a DVD ROM(Toshiba, nothing special) and I would of course occasionally like to burn Dvds/Cd's from my DVD ROM to my DVD burner. However, seeing as the DVD burner is S-ATA, there is no physical connection what so ever between the two drives(unlike in P-ATA connection where each cable has 3 "connections", 2 for drives(hard or optical) and one for the Motherboard) I really don't know how I can "achieve" this.

A friend of my father's, whose occupation is a computer technician toke a look at the PC and bios settings today.
WE tried EVERYTHING and It still wouldn't work so we concluded that the problem is probably in the hardware.
There were two possible "suspects" here - The Mother Board(specificially the S-ATA controller/ports on it) or the drive itself.
We connected the drive to my sister's computer and it worked like a charm.
So the answer was clear - something was wrong with the board.
I replaced my S-ATA drive for an IDE drive, and all is well.
Well
that's the end of that story

Help How to Boot SATA drive? Serial ATA (NOT)- Raid

hi, i have the
Msi K8N Neo Platinum and i despertly tried to boot from the Serial ATA drive.
i have 2 hd in the IDE primary channels
and 2 Cdrw and Cd Rom connected to the IDE Secondary Channels
the Serial ATA is connected to 3 port due to overclocking and msi detecting bug.
the Serial ATA is NTFS and so the Primary Master.
i want to install WINXP on the Serial ATA and so it will boot from it.
i am using the reguler Primary Master for the boot now,, but i really want to boot from the Serial ATA,,
and plz explain me what the hell are those Raid SATA, and all the other types
PATA and stuff.
and do i need to use the driver RAID/SATA diskett from msi?
it's Western Digital 80GB 8mb
plz help

Quote
Originally posted by Valaire
So... disable the IDE channels (or disconnect the drives temporarily), then just install the drive. You don't have to F6, if you are not using RAID. Parttition and format in Windows XP bootable cd setup.
Does the same hold true with Windows 2000? No need to F6 and add drivers for a single SATA (WD Raptor 36GB) drive?
I am having a devil of a time getting my K8N Neo Plat seeing this single drive, and shall try the tricks in the FAQ thread: Single SATA or Multiple Drive Array Setup FAQ
I cannot even format the SATA drive in the MSI - the system locks up, aborts, or I see ASCII characters in the screen after "format terminated" messages. Drive formats fine in my Asus P4P800-E Deluxe.

875P Neo FIS2R-Slow boot with Raid on Intel + Raid on Promise

Hello all.
Here is the configuration I'm trying to set up (and almost did)
SI 875P Neo FIS2R,MS-6758 BIOS v2.4
P4 2.6 GHz HT
500W 6fan total
2x1G Kit DDR 400
2x74 G WD Raptor Raid0 (Intel S1-2) Win XP inst
2x36 G WD Raptor Raid0 (Promise S3-4)
GeCube X1600Pro
DVD-RW (IDE 2 )
Win XP SP2 (All latest updates installed)
I followed the instructions as they are listed in the sticky (great job btw) and configured the 2 SATA 74G WD Raptor on Intel Raid controller(serial1&2) as Raid0 and install WindowsXP Prof sp 2 on it.
Then I configured the 2 SATA 36G WD Raptor on Promise controller(serial3&4) as Raid0 and added this Raid to the existing WindowsXP installation.
This set up is working very good once I'm logged into Windows with no problems at all.
The glitch is that I need 3 min waiting time till I see the windows loading logo.
I have all the latest drivers installed also IAA and INFs and my bios is as the default values except the changes mentioned in the sticky
Onboard Promise IDE - as Raid
ON-Chip IDE Configuration:
Native Mode
SATA Only
Keep SATA Active - Yes
Keep PATA Active - Yes
PATA Channel selection - Both
Configure SATA as Raid - Yes
I did the Win XP installation twice till now, taking care to install INFs and drivers in the right order but the result is the same...3-5 mins till I have a fully operational windows environment and after that all is running like a dream.
Now, I've searched in the forum and saw that many more people have the same problem but never read the solution to it, so if someone has ever found the way to solve this or has the same configuration please tell me how he did it. Even if someone knows that it can't be solved just drop me a line telling me so. Altough the system is running smoothly I find the 3 min waiting time unacceptable and frustrating. I've run out of ideas so please help me.
Thanks in advance

Hello Blazer and thank you for replying.
Answering one at a time...
are both raid arrays setup with the same stripe size?--> Yes Both arrays are configured at 16k stripes
do you see both the intel and the promise bios setup screens?-->Yes both screens (Intel(R) RAID... and Fast Built (tm) ...)appear almost instantly after MSI's logo screen showing my Raid arrays in Normal status. The delay starts after the Promise's screen till the Windows Loading logo screen.
how is the raid bootable drive identified in the boot from menu?-->
Boot Device Priority:
1st BBS-0 (Raid): Intel <name> (---> this is the OS drive on Intel controller)
2nd Disabled
3rd Disabled
Try other boot devices NO
I have also the option to select the the Drive on Promise which shows as BBS-1 (Raid) FT 378 Ary 1 but I have left it out cause it doesn't have the OS on it.
is the OS drive labeled as C: and seen as 200GB drive [as one] from the four drive array]--> No as it shouldn't cause these are two different Raid Arrays. The first Raid on Intel's controller with the 2x74G WD Disks indeed shows as one C: 137 G and has the OS on it. The second on Promise controller with 2x36G WD Disks also shows as one D: 70G.These are two separate Arrays with 2 disks each and they show as indented.
is network boot enabled causing a delayed boot?--> I don't quit understand what you mean. In case you mean what happens if I unplug the 2 disks from the promise controller then yes if I do that the system boots fast in the Windows even if I leave the Bios setting "configure promise as raid"!!!
My problem is similar with this post: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=69994.0
other posts that have reported the same trouble:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=94944.msg683258#msg683258
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81901.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=66662.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=98005.0 ---> I wish it was that simple, I did it as with all other drivers
I hope that info helps you helping me.

Moving data from a dead G5 with serial ATA drives to a Mac Pro

I have a dead Power Mac dual 2.7 GHz G5. The red light on the edge of the mother board is on - and the machine does not start up. It has been dying slowly - the dual monitors turn off when I send an image to my printer.
It is under Apple Care - and today I purchased a Mac Pro quad 3.0 to replace it.
But - I need some files from the 2 drives in the dead dual 2.7 G5. They are 250GB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm drives.
From what I read here I cannot simply put the drives into the new Mac Pro.
So - I think that I need a firewire enclosure for the 250GB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm drives that will let me get out the data.
What is a good enclosure to do this - or is there another way? I can't send in the G5 for repair until I rescue the data from the drives and erase them.
Dual 2.7 G5, 2 intel iMacs, 1 MacBook, 1 Powerbook, 18 G4 Macs, 3 iPods Mac OS X (10.4.9) I teach Digital Photography clases - on Macs

You can install them - you just won't be able to boot
from them.
Don't move programs over - you should re-install them
instead.
That would be great. I don't need to boot from them - I just need to rescue some files.
Can I erase them from the Mac pro before I send the G5 off for service?

K8T Neo - no boot from CD/DVD

I have a K8T Neo FSR board, with 512 MB, one 250 GB ATA hard drive and a DVD writer/drive. It refuses to boot from the DVD drive. I've done all the standard things - going into BIOS, checking its boot order, disabling the SATA drives, even slowing the memory speed down from 400 mHz to 200 mHz. And yes, I've removed the battery and power cable and let it sit for 24 hours to reset the BIOS. None of it works.
The DVD drive runs during POST, but does not run during the time that BIOS is looking for boot devices. It does not boot. BIOS recognizes the drive, but whether I set it to "auto" or "CD/DVD" in BIOS, the drive does not run.
I have used a floppy disk (a modified Win 98 boot disk) that loads ATAPI drivers. The disk boots, but the drivers do nothing to help me boot or even read anything from the CD/DVD drive.
I've even put in another power supply (that has 22 amps on the +12V line) and still, no joy. Anyone have any ideas?

Okay, please note the new signature line. As I say, this info will not help you one bit. These are all common components, nothing exotic and nothing unearthed from a swamp. The person on eBay who sold me this motherboard says that the system booted fine for him when he ran it, he did not overclock the processor, and he is mystified as to why the system won't boot.
I have swapped out the DVD drive for others (notably a Pioneer from my Mac G4, I think it's a DVR-106), and I did try different settings on the drive (master, slave, cable select) and tried it on the other channel. I've switched out the secondary IDE cable for a new one, and it's a cable with a key plug so it can't be plugged in the wrong way. And I've tried auto settings and the DVD/CD setting in BIOS for the drive. I cannot set up UDMA mode, since that selection is greyed out in BIOS. That shouldn't matter, as that is a high-performance setting, and booting is a low-performance task. Remember, the drive light is not coming on when BIOS starts going through its boot devices.
And to answer another post, yes, I've set the entire boot order to CD/DVD. Plus "try other devices" so that at worst, it'll boot off the floppy.
At this point I'm prepared to follow BOSSKILLER's suggestion and flash the motherboard BIOS to 2.2 with a floppy boot disk, unless I hear a lot of objections. Other than that, I'll have to take this to a tech, who probably won't have a clue and won't give a damn about a homebrew system ("Why don't you just throw all that in the trash and buy a nice, new system from me? There's nothing wrong with PC Chips!")
Sorry if this is a bit abrasive, but this is something that should not happen, especially to an MSI motherboard.

875P Neo FIS2R DRAMM / Boot Problems

After having significant difficulties with my new machine
I thought it may be helpful to others to know how I fixed the Mother Board problems. I have the following configuration:
875P Neo-FISR
P4 3.02 GHz 478P 800fsb
Two Geil PC 3200 400MHz 500mb DDR’s at positions 1 & 3
( CAS 2 6-3-3 1T; 2.6-2.9 V)
Two Seagate 120 Gb 7200rpm SATA drives on Promise Raid 0
Generic Cd Reader
Pioneer DVD Writer DVRA05
ATI 9700 Pro
Aquarius Liquid Cooler
Enermax Fan Monitor
( Addictions are bad )
Open all the boxes and put everything together. Boots up once and then starts active unstable.
Clear the CMOS and then it fails to post at all.
No monitor at all.
Looking at this web site I thought that putting the Aquarius Fan on the SFAN 1 slot may not be playing with CoreCell Chip well. Switched to the Enermax and it boots. Remains very unstable. Reading an email here I changed the DDR voltage to 2.7. System stable but I can’t get the Promise RAID to engage.
Looked at another email ( Thanks Mr. K. Keenan)
and set the BIOS as follows:
Frequency / Voltage Control:
CPU Ratio Selection: Locked
Dram Frequency : AUTO
Spread Spectrum : DISABLED
Adj. CPU BUS Clock: 230
DDR Clock: 460
Adj. AGP/PCI Clock: 67.1/33.50
CPU Vcore Adjust: YES
CPU Vcore: 1.5750V
DDR Power Voltage: 2.70 ( KK suggested 2.65)
AGP Power Voltage : 1.75
Everything stabilized.
Start adjusting the Promise RAID settings (following M. Johnson’s advice)
as follows in the BIOS:
ON CHIP IDE Configuration
ON Chip ATA Operate Mode: Native Mode
ATA Configuration : S-ATA Only
P-ATA Keep Enabled : YES
P-ATA Channel Select : BOTH
S-ATA Ports Definition: PO-1st/P1-2nd
Configure S-ATA as Raid : YES
Back to
INTEGRATED PHERIPHERALS
ONBOARD Promise IDE: as RAID
Run Windows 2000 prof and it finds the array but can’t format ( ???)
Tried formating with Millenium Boot disk ( Bad move).
Windows ME won’t let Win 2000 boot.
Clear CMOS and then the system dies.
Spent days trying to get at least the monitor to fire with no luck.
Reread web site and picked up on the Low Latency Memory issues noted
in a note ( Thanks Mr. K. Keenan again). Put in some Kingston cas2.5
333 DDR’s at 1 & 3 positions.
Fires up immediately.
Windows 2000 boots and loads. Totally stable.
Never to be one that leaves well enough alone…
Set the BIOS under
ADVANCED CHIP FEATURES as follows:
Under dram Timing Setting:
Configure DRAM Timing by SPD : Disabled
Cas Latency: 2
RAS # Precharge 3
RAS # to CAS# Delay: 3
Precharge Delay: 6
Burst Length : 8
AGP Aperture Size: 128 MB
Shut down and replaced the 1GB ( 2 x 500) Geil DDR 400’s.
Rock stable and faster.
Evidently when you clear the CMOS, the board resets
the DDR Power Voltage to 2.50 which is too low for
some of the faster DDR SDRAM’s. Unless you put
slower chips in you can’t adjust the bios to a higher voltage.
I would love to know why MSI did that.
Hope this trail helps somebody else.
Best RBC

Quote
Originally posted by Undergrid
Quote
Evidently when you clear the CMOS, the board resets
the DDR Power Voltage to 2.50 which is too low for
some of the faster DDR SDRAM’s. Unless you put
slower chips in you can’t adjust the bios to a higher voltage.
I would love to know why MSI did that.
Simply, when you use the jumpers to reset the BIOS all the settings, including the voltages, get reset to the default. The default power setting for RAM is 2.5v, and I would assume that its difficult to find RAM that doesn't run at that voltage at least well enough to get into the BIOS. What use would the jumper reset be if it only selectivly reset settings?
Hi all,
The system will reset the performance to Slow and the DDR ram timing to default by just 4 unsuccessful boot up.
Meaning just press reset button for about 4 times and the system will boot with the default setting for the performance and RAM Timing.
So I do not need to do jumper reseting or open the CPU casing.
Cheers.

875P Neo/Boot from Serial ATA Raptor?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for