915P Neo2 Platinum Hard Drive/Optical Drive Configuration

My main drive is the 120Gb SATA drive listed below but I'd like to utilise a 160Gb PATA h/d that I used to use for backups on my previous system.
I have the SATA drive configured as my boot drive. ATM, my DVD drives are connected to IDE1 as I have a recovery CD which needs to be booted should I need to use my backups.
I've been tinkering with this system and would prefer to have the parallel IDE drive permanently connected to IDE1 but still boot from the SATA drive. To this end, if I connect my DVD drives (configured as master & slave) on a single IDE cable to IDE2 and boot, they aren't recognized as bootable devices when I hit F11 after POST. However, when Windows boots they do appear. With this configuration I can't restore data because I need to boot from a recovery CD-ROM.
Is it possible to have optical drives connected to one of the RAID IDE connectors and make them bootable?
If not, and since I do have 2 drives, I assume someone will suggest going down the RAID route. Can RAID1 be configured across 2 hard drives if I have 1 x SATA and 1 x PATA?
TIA.
915P Neo2 Platinum PCI-E (MS-7028) motherboard
BIOS v1.6
Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz 'Prescott' processor
Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 512Mb RAM
Asus Extreme GeForce PCX6600 GT 128MB (PCI-E) graphics
Maxtor DiamondMax +9 7200RPM SATA 120GB h/d
Floppy drive
Thermaltake 480W ATX PSU Xaser Silent Edition
Thermaltake Tsunami Aluminium Case
LiteOn DVD-ROM
LiteOn Dual Layer 16x DVD±RW ReWriter
Windows XP Pro SP2

Quote from: NovJoe on 05-April-05, 21:25:01
To what I know, it is not possible to get Optical drives to work on IDE 2 and 3 since they are mainly for RAIDs and HDDs.
Keep the Optical drives to IDE 1 and the IDE HDD to IDE 2.
Thanks for your quick reply.
I've tried that - get the same problem with boot devices in that the h/d on IDE2 won't boot. (It holds a copy of my C partition.)

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use MSI life update to update your BIOS, to minimise to kill your mobo.
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June-July 2013 Video Editing Hard Drive Configuration - ideas welcome!

Greetings Adobe Community,
I am a new member and this is my first question. I appreciate any knowledgable and experienced advice for my Hard Drive Setup.
My new system:
CPU: Intel i7 3930k
MOBO: Asus P9X79 DELUXE
CPU Cooler: CM TPC 812 (Starting with Air cooling, hestitant to use liquid for now)
RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance (1600MHz) (8GB ea. obviously)
GPU: GTX 650 Ti Boost (went slim here with plan to sell & upgrade as needed or suggested)
Case/Tower: CM Storm Stryker
PSU: Seasonic 80+ Platinum 860W (currently overkill)
OS: WIndows 7 Pro (with option to upgrade to 8)
Optical Drives: Pioneer BD writer & LG DVD writer (excited about and anticipating a commercial version of new Petabyte optical technology
--> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159245-new-optical-laser-can-increase-dvd-storage-up- to-one-petabyte
Now, I am open to any suggestions that might be a bottleneck above, but my main question is about my my Hard Drive Configuration:
I have the following hard drives:
2 x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD
2 x 1TB WD Caviar Black HDD (7200RPM)
2 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (7200RPM)
I am looking for the best speed, performance and usage of these drives for cs6 Master Collection, with special consideration given to Premiere Pro, AE, and Photoshop.
(FYI: I will be backing up all important files to an external HHD and burning final projects to BD)
My plan inspired by suggestions on AF and elsewhere:
1.) C: 1 x Samsung SSD: OS & Programs
2.) D: 1 x Samsung SSD: Media Cache & Previews
3.) E: 1 x Seagate 3TB HDD for Exports (Should I buy another and raid it?)
4.) F: 2 x WD 1TBs in Raid 0 for Projects
5.) G: 1 x Seagate 3TB HHD for Media (should I add buy another and raid it?)
6.)))<BONUS Drive> I am planning on running some tests to see how much max RAM I can use, and whatever is not being used, I am hoping to hear some positive feedback on making a RAMdisk or a couple of them. (I have seen unbelievable benchmarks for them.) If it is recommended, could I use a RAMdisk for {2.- Media Cache & Preview} or should I just use it for Pagefiles and other Caches and temporary files? (or forgo it altogether?)
I know this is a loaded question, and I am open to other suggestions that might include buying ~$300 in additional drives if it will increase speed and performance tremendously.
Thank you all for reading & I am really looking foward to learning from your knowledge and experience in this area!

Mike,
Check. SATA 6G port. Add a static pagefile of 1 or 2 GB here.
Check. SATA 6G port.
Check. SATA 3G port. No sense in raiding this and doubling the risk of data loss. Even a 25 GB export will only need ± 3 minutes or less to write.The time for export is spent on encoding, not on writing. Why take the risk and spend the money for a potential 80 - 90 second gain on each export of 25 GB? How often do you do that?
Check. SATA 6G ports on Marvell. Make regular backups of your projects.
Check. SATA 3G port. I would be very hesitant to raid0 the original media because of the risk of data loss.The X79 platform is designed for dedicated raid controllers and parity raids. If you need more speed, go that route.
Forget about it. It is not practical. Windows does not allow booting without a pagefile, so it will always create a dynamic pagefile on C: if it does not find it. With 64 GB memory the pagefile will hardly be used if at all. A static pagefile of 1 GB is enough. Everytime you turn off your machine, the RAM disk gets erased and upon booting must be newly created. That means that the media cache must be newly created, indexing, conforming and creation of peakfiles must be done every time you open a project. That time lost far outweighs the potential gain of a faster RAM disk.
Just my $ 0.02

Hard drive configuration is not set to factory default. Refurbished Acer Iconia W3-810

This tablet was purchased refurbished. As soon as I got it, I went to create my backup and message is "Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Backup aborted. I had already sent it in once to the seller for repair services and it was sent back not repaired. They now say I can send it in again but seems a waste of time. I called Acer and they said I would need to purchase the recovery disk which should have already been provided to me. It does have a valid SNID number. I checked.   If there is anyone else who came up against this problem, I would love to know what you did to resolve it. Second problem. Large font had been created where is overscans the entire page so reading the Control Panel is impossible. The warranty dept created a new user account with new settings as they were unable to fix the font problem so they ignored it. This is another reason I wanted to do a factory reset. Hoping Acer will be kind enough to just send me the disk.   I've learned alot about refurbished products. Never again.

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Hard Drive Configure for MacBook Pro HD Editing

Can someone give me some advice on a two hard drive configuration that could be hot swappable.
I was told that I need two hard drives together to maximize speed for Proress 10 bit hd editing. Can you explain how configuring two hard drives gives me more speed to give me more real time cap.
I have seen a Lacie 2big swappable ext hard drive system and if I get the e sata connection. would that be fast enough if so what Raid system would be best.
Thanks for any input.

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Explaination of the various RAID levels:
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what Raid system would be best.
For...? What type of footage are you trying to work with? RAID 5 is the best...Protection and speed. Look at the HDone for that. And look at www.maxxdigtial.com, sonnettech.com, g-technology.com...
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Hard Drive configuration for speed

I've got a question regarding the best hard drive configuration for my mac pro. I'm looking to increase the boot speed, application load speed and particularly the speed with which hard drive intensive photoshop processes complete. Right now I'm just using some normal SATA II drives. I'd appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on the various options I am currently considering.
-2x 64GB SSD in a RAID 0 for OS X and applications with some large SATA drives for storage
-4x 300GB VelociRaptor 10k RPM SATA HDD in a RAID 0
-2x 147GB SAS 15k RPM HDD in RAID 0 with some large SATA drives for storage
I am particularly in the dark about the controllers I'd use for each solution. Clearly, I would absolutely require a PCIe card for the SAS drives, but would there be a marked advantage to using a hardware RAID card for the SATA drives over the software RAID in OS X? Also, how easy is it to get the mac pro to boot off drives connected to a controller card rather than the standard setup? And lastly, if there is good reason to use a card, are there any in particular that you would recommend?
Thanks a lot!

2. No. Do not make two partitions unless you do not plan to use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on that partition. If you plan to create a Boot Camp partition then you must partition the drive as one Mac OS X volume. Boot Camp Assistant will then create the Windows volume.
3. This drive must be repartitioned and reformatted as follows:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to two. Use the graphic resizer to set the desired sizes for each volume as you want. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the first volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. Select the second volume you created and repeat Steps 4-6.
4. Now here I don't know what you think is your best option. You can buy any two hard drives you want. The ones I identified were only an example of what you could purchase for under $300. There are others, slightly more expensive, that would work, and you would still be under your $300 budget. The Samsung drives are good drives and reasonably priced, but they are just one of several alternatives. You should do some checking on your own before making your decision. I'm just giving some guidance, not trying to tell you what you should do. I've provided three sites where you can read reviews and benchmarks before you decide. You need to "own" your decision.
As for how you configure these two drives that's a secondary issue. I would recommend using them for backup. Two possible arrangements are a Mirrored or a Striped RAID array. A mirrored RAID array would create one volume that has a 1 TB capacity. Everything saved to that volume is essentially saved twice - once on one drive then a copy is mirrored to the other drive. This is not what you described in your Item 4. That's not how it works. Anything saved to the mirrored RAID array is saved the way I described it just above. It makes no difference where the files come from.
Now you can use the mirrored RAID array as a Time Machine backup drive if you want, but then you should not use it for other data storage. You would need the entire capacity as backup for both of the 500 GB drives you currently have. A mirrored RAID provides some data redundancy by having a copy of everything one each drive. Thus, if one drive fails the other drive still functions and your data backup is intact. Mirrored RAIDs are generally no faster than an individual drive that makes up the array.
The second suggestion was to make a Striped RAID array. This type of array produces one volume that is twice the size of the the two drives that make up the array. Thus, you would have a single volume that is 2 TBs in size. You can use this volume for your Time Machine backups also. Striped RAIDs do not provide any data redundancy. If one drive fails all the data stored on the RAID will be lost. However, Striped RAIDs are nearly twice as fast as either drive that makes up the array. This would give you very fast storage and backup.
You could also just leave the two drives to operate independently. Use on for Time Machine backups, use the other for more storage space.
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Hardware or Software RAID?
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RAID Hardware is always a disk controller to which you can cable up the disk drives. RAID Software is a set of kernel modules coupled together with management utilities that implement RAID in Software and require no additional hardware.
Pros and cons
Software RAID is more flexible than Hardware RAID. Software RAID is also considerably less expensive. On the other hand, a Software RAID system requires more CPU cycles and power to run well than a comparable Hardware RAID System. Also, because Software RAID operates on a partition by partition basis where a number of individual disk partitions are grouped together as opposed to Hardware RAID systems which generally group together entire disk drives, Software RAID tends be slightly more complicated to run. This is because it has more available configurations and options. An added benefit to the slightly more expensive Hardware RAID solution is that many Hardware RAID systems incorporate features that are specialized for optimizing the performance of your system.
For more detailed information on the differences between Software RAID and Hardware RAID you may want to read: Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation is Best for my Application?
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Why doesn't macbook pro 2.3GHz Retina display have hard drive configuration?

When I'm about to order the macbook pro 2.3Ghz Retina display in the apple.com website. there are no hard drive configuration. the hardware configuration are only memory, apple usb super drive and apple thunderbolt. but no hardrive. why?

Because that is the base model of the Retina Edition.
The Retina Edition doesn't come with a Hard Drive. It uses a Flash Drive.
If you want a larger flash drive, you have to step up to the next model.

Which is the optimal hard drive configuration for Logic Pro ?

hello people
i would like to ask your advices about possible hard drive configurations for Logic Pro
I have a Mac Pro and thinking to buy 4 x 500GB drives .
there are several combinations in my mind to configure , but first of all i would like to ask which is the best for an optimal system for Logic Pro
model 1 :
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''System'' (500+500 = 1000)
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''recording + sound banks'' (500 + 500 = 1000)
which means to using 4 hard drives as 2 drives
model 2 :
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''System'' (500+500 = 1000)
1 Single drive for Sound banks (500)
1 Single drive for Recording (500)
which means to using 4 hard drives as 3 drives
Or , it is more healthy to use the drives as single , without raid , stripe sets but with its own capacity instead of combining .
and also if someone has an idea regarding to compare of Seagate and Westerndigital drives (which is the best for audio recording) , would be really helpfull
I am kinda rookie for these subjects :/
thanks in advance

heelo blayzay
thanks for the reply and assistance.
1) how can i create a back up set for the 4th HD to be make back up of the 2nd and 3rd HD
2) what about to make 1st HD for system and 2nd3rd4th (1.5TB) for audio recording, and an external drive for backups ?
For the back ups , is there a special process for the backing up HD (internal or external) ? Or should i just need a Clone software to make the back up
thank you again.

Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default

When I go into Acer Recovery Management to try to create a factory default backup I get a pop up that says Hard Drive configuration is not set to the factory default - back up aborted. How do I get my hard drive set back to factory default?

Create recovery backup or recovery media and resetting to default are 2 different things. you can create the recovery backup even without resetting to factory default; you just need to start Acer erecovery and follow instructions. it will copy the recovery partition to DVDs or USB flash media.if Acer erecovery is not working and you have Windows 8.x, you can follow this guide:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive about resetting to factory default, the easiest way is to press ALT+F10 at boot and then follow onscreen instructions.

915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B) and SATA setup HELP !!

Hi,
Can any one help me with the BIOS settings for my SATA HDD on an 915P Neo2 Platinum motherboard ?
Configuration:
- Antec Sonata II 450 Watt
- Intel Pentium 4 630, Socket 775
- Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 SDRAM, 1 GB, PC4300, 533 MHz
- 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B)
- 2x NEC ND-4550 16 connected to EDI 1
- 1x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250 GB, 7.200 rpm, 16 MB, SATA/150 connected to SATA_1
I have tested with the following settings:
1)
   ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced]
   Configure SATA as [IDE]
Result:
   Can't format with Windows Setup CD (sp2)
   If it formatted with 3rd party utils, then performance of the system is very poor.
Thanks in advance !

Hi, I suggest you to set the ATA/IDE config as Legacy and check that all your HDDs are detected, if not all, at least your HDD and optical drive. Then continue with the installation. After WinXP installation settled down, then go back to the BIOS and switch to Enhanced again, and then continue boot up to windows and install Intel INF.

A few bios problems with my 915p Neo2 platinum board

I'm wondering af anyone here can help me.
I just got a new system and a friend of mine helped set up the bios for me, afterwards he failed to tell me how he had configured the bios (my first big mistake).
Since the buidling of the system there have been 3 short beeps at the beginning of startup. I was told that it was a warning system of some sort and when i looked it up, the informations pointed towards a problem with the RAM.
I ran memtest86 and it found no problems with the RAM, so i contacted the site i bought the parts from and they suggested i reset the bios.
I did so and the beeps remained, but my DVD and DVD-writer drives arent being detected anymore.
I took my PC around to another friends house with only his keyboard and monitor connected. The beeping had stopped before we changed anything. Bringing it back around to my house resulted in the beeping returning.
From this i gathered that the only things different may have been his power source and the peripherals i have attached to the back of the case. (speakers, printer, kb/m, etc)
Going by the manual map, my 2 HDDs are connected as slave/master in IDE port 1 and my two DVD drives are connected to the yellow IDE port that is closest to IDE port 1 (it's either IDE 2 or 3, the map isnt too clear on which is which).
Long story short, can anyone help me in identifying the source of the beeps and their meaning, an optimum setup for my bios and how to get my DVD drives to work.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. I'm fairly new to building computers and my friends are the type to suddenly become unavailable as soon as a problem arises.
edit: just noticed i missed the spec description part menitoned in the rules.
MSI s775 915P-Neo2-Platinum
Version 1.4 of bios
Pentium 4 540 LGA775 3.2GHz
Corsair VS 1GB DDR2 240 pin RAM
256 MSI PCI-express GF6800GT, latest drivers
600W 3XS-EzCool PPFC
Western digital WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0 (160GB) (master)
Seagate U series 5 HDD ST340823A (40GB) (slave) Both on IDE slot 1
Liteon DVD-ROM (spec unavailable)
MSI 4x DVD-RW +/- (part no: G57-CB00243, this is all i could find on this part form the box)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Windows XP SP2
second attempt at clearing up the garbled mess from above.
Motherboard is making 3 short beeps on startup. Indication of a problem with memory. I've established that it's something external that causing the beeps as the memory has checked out fine with memtest86. Hence i will be checking all the attached devices.
I was guided to reset the bios in an attempt to clear up this problem above. Doing so has resulted in my bios being unable to detect my DVD drives.
My DVD-drives are connected to IDE port 2/3 (manual is unclear on which is which).
Everything was in working order (with the exception of the beeping) before the bios was reset but due to my lack of knowledge/involvement with the original configuration of the bios, i'm at a loss as to how to fix it.
If anyone could recommend me any updates for the bios, or could advise me on how to configure my bios accordingly to the parts i have i would be most appreciative. Also, if osmeone would be abel to shed some light on the beeping issue i would be thankful also.

Quote
Originally posted by Danny
The board uses a Via raid controller for the IDE 2 and 3 channels, and you do have that enabled.
Under SATA devices configuration you should select Enhanced instead of compatible. But this should effect your problem.
I see there is a 1.5 bios released that mentions the via controller
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=601&kind=1
Maybe someone with this board will pitch in and help.
I saw this and was wondering if i should install it. It would be the equivelent of resetting the bios again wouldnt it? So it wouldnt be that much of a step back from where i am at the moment and it might be able to sort my IDE problems.

915P-Neo2 Platinum - Live Update Crashes

Is anyone else having trouble loading MSI's "Live Update", especially "Live Monitor" on the 915P Neo2 Platinum? Every time I load it the entire system collapes in the Blue Screen of Death upon reboot.
I've tried loading Live Update from both the enclosed "Drivers & Utilities" diskette and from the MSI Website where the latest version of Live Update (I guess) is located.
Both crash my new system the same. It just keeps looping at the Boot-Blue Screen-CRASH!-Boot-Blue Screen - CRASH!
The only way to recover is to do a Restore in Safe Mode.
Very disapponted with the 915P Neo2 Platinum board in general, i.e., the above reason and the slow, ragged - even sloppy - boot.
And if there is any advantage in these high-priced PCI-Express videocards that justifies the money, I can't find it. My old 875P Neo (signature system) smokes this new 915P even with its ungodly high-priced DDR2-675 memory.
Stay clear of 'em.

Quote
Originally posted by mike315
Is anyone else having trouble loading MSI's "Live Update", especially "Live Monitor" on the 915P Neo2 Platinum? Every time I load it the entire system collapes in the Blue Screen of Death upon reboot.
I've tried loading Live Update from both the enclosed "Drivers & Utilities" diskette and from the MSI Website where the latest version of Live Update (I guess) is located.
Both crash my new system the same. It just keeps looping at the Boot-Blue Screen-CRASH!-Boot-Blue Screen - CRASH!
The only way to recover is to do a Restore in Safe Mode.
Very disapponted with the 915P Neo2 Platinum board in general, i.e., the above reason and the slow, ragged - even sloppy - boot.
And if there is any advantage in these high-priced PCI-Express videocards that justifies the money, I can't find it. My old 875P Neo (signature system) smokes this new 915P even with its ungodly high-priced DDR2-675 memory.
Stay clear of 'em.
i 2nd this motion very disapointed with its compabiltiy and abillity to find drives
try harder MSI (Sorry very annoyed at this point)

915P Neo2 Platinum

Hope you guys can help i have the 915P Neo2 Platinum "NOT"(V1.0B) with the Broadcom BCM5751 onboard lan i had alot of the same problems with the sound and lan as others in this group and was able to fix it with the bios update. Every thing was fine untill i had to do a fresh install of xp home "dam kids" now my lan does not show up i made sure it was turned on in the bios and did another fresh install with no luck, hope you can help
Antec true430
+5V -5V +12V -12V +3.3V +5VSB
Max. Load 36A 0.5A 26A 1.0A 28.0A 2.0A
Min. Load 0A 0A 0.8A 0A 0A 0A
Load Reg. ±3% ±5% ±3% ±5% ±3% ±5%
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915P Neo2 Platinum problems

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me as I've been tweaking bios settings for 3 days and not managed to get anywhere with this.
I've have the following:
1x 915p Neo2 Platinum Mboard
1x Sapphire x600 235MB Graphics
1x Corsair PC2-4200 512 MB DDR2
1x 40GB Western Digital IDE drive
1x 30GB Western Digital IDE drive
When I first switched it all on, the board powered up but I got no display and no beeps. After pulling out all wires and adding the minimum of devices I got it to start up properly and got into bios. Eventually, after tweaking some settings and then systematically adding each device in turn I got everything connected whilst maintaining stability so it would still boot up.
Next problem I has was that it wouldn't boot from a floppy. It kept giving me "Disk I/O error". I tried several different floppy disks - same problem. I changed the floppy cable and still got the same error. I then bought a new floppy drive and tried that but still got the same problem. Decided to carry on and install XP incase floppy started to work later.
When installing, I pressed F6 to load RAID drivers. I selected the IDE RAID driver, it chugged away and carried on loading setup. My 2 IDE drives were successfully identified and I selected the installation drive and formatted it (tried quick and full format), after it had done this, it then tried to load the RAID driver again from the disk. At this point, the driver disk is still in the floppy drive, but it then says that it can not load the file from the disk and to try another. Again I tried several disks all of which gave the same problem.
I've searched this forum to help me with my earlier issues and found answers but couldn't find any info on this one. Can anyone help? I'm starting to think that my mboard has a poorly floppy controller. Also, I've got completly confused about the RAID setup, I currently have both my drives, 1 as master and 1 as slave, in IDE2 and have not touched the RAID BOIS setup - does this mean I will still be able to use these as 2 different drives? Eventaull I will add SATA RAID.

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Originally posted by Del UK
Hi Masjj,
Could list some details of the PSU you using please, as this would help. Please see sig below as a guide.
Confirm please:
You can boot and format, then when install happens, failure????
Del
My spec is as follows:
No OS yet
- tried Win XP (blue screen after RAID driver load)
- trie Win XP with SP1a ("can not load viaraid.sys" error after disk format)
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (MS-7028 Ver 10A)
BIOS - Shows "915P/G NEO2 A7028IMS V1.0 05/27/04" on first screen, in BIOS setup screen shows v02.56
Intel P4 3.0GHz PRESCOTT, 1MB L2-Cache, 800MHz FSB
Sapphire X600 256MB + 19" TFT
Soundblaster 5.1 Live card with LiveDrive
Western Digital 30GB IDE (Master)
Western Digital 40GB IDE (Slave)
Pioneer DVR-105 DVD/RW Burner
DVD-ROM
WD 800JB+CD-RW
1* Corsair Value 512MB PC4200 DDR2 Ram
PSU - eTech 460 +3.3v-28A +5v-30A +12V-30A
I cannot boot from Floppy, can boot from CD. When I try to install WinXP with SP1a, I hit F6 to load RAID drivers, choose driver from list. Setup then detects HDDs, I format install drive, then it tries to load RAID driver again from disk and gives a fail message of "unable to load VIAMRAID.SYS" and will not continue. If I try to install without RAID drivers, it says that there is no storage device connected.

915P NEO2 Platinum (V1.0b) problem

Hi, I just bought a whole new fresh system..
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0b)
Intel P4 LGA 775 530 3,0Ghz 800Mhz FSB HT
Sapphire Ati x700Pro 128MB PCI-Express
200GB WD Caviar WD2000 200GB 8Mb cache 7200RPM IDE
Lite-On DVDRW 8x+/- RW
Aspire 500W Visible Power
2x256MB DDRII-533 Corsair ValueSelect
now the problem I have is next:
I connect evrything correctly like I did a million times before with other systems..
I boot it up and it goes good.. I check my Bios, everything detected all ok
then I insert the WindowsXP Pro CD and reboot..
it gives the screen with Loading Files: blablabla u know that when its preparing the installation..
then I my screen goes black for a second.. normal I think.. then I get a Bluescreen!! even when windows isnt installed yet :/
So I think , hey I got another Maxtor 120GB IDE over here with windows onnit and all good. so i put that in, works like a charm.. so I think, lets try to install windows on it from another system so i do so.. I plug it back in my new system and it gives the exact same bluescreen when I just try to boot up windows.. but I was able to install windws on it from the other system so its not my HD..
I really dont know what to do, I did a memtest I got from another system so it aint the memory neither..
this is the bluescreen error:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xF853D0BF, 0xF8989208, 0xF8988F08)
*** pci.sys - Address F853D0BF base at F8536000, DateStamp 3b7d855c
can anyone help me plz ?

had exact same problem so i followed what has been said. this got rid of the message Technical information:
***Stop: 0x0000007E (0XC0000005, 0XF853D0BF, 0XF8989208, 0XF8988F08)
*** PCI.SYS - ADDRESS F853D0BF BASE AT F8536000, DATESTAMP 3B7D855C
but i now have a new message Technical information:
***Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7C8263C , 0xC0000034 , 0x00000000 , 0x00000000)
system spec :915p neo 2 plat
intel 540 processor
corsair vs1gbkit533d2
seagate baracuda 80gig hd
pny geforce fx5200 pci
lg dvd rw drive
400w psu
plz help!!

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