975X Platinum SATA HD, IDE disaster.

I tried looking around the forums and couldnt really find any mentioning of my problem so here I go,
I just finished building my new machine:
Intel E6600 @2.4Ghz
Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR2 800
nVidia XFX 8800 GTX
X-Fi Soundblaster XtremeMusic 7.1
WD Raptor 150GB (SATA)
Seagate Barracude 250GB (SATA)
Sony DVD Burner (IDE)
LG DVD Burner (IDE)
Here is my problem, I installed the OS on the 150GB Raptor, from the begining of the installation the Sony Drive was being detected but wasn't booting the XP Pro disc, so I switched to the LG and unplugged the Sony (the LG wasent being detected when the Sony was plugged in) then once I finally got done with updates, and drivers I went on to reconnect the Sony (as master) and the Seagate. But it would boot XP, so I unplugged the Seagate and it went right through, but when I got into windows I found out that it was only showing up one drive, and it wouldn't even read the media I inserted. I later tried plugging in my old WD Drive (old machine) thinking my seagate was dead. But it didn't detect that ether...
I don't know if its a known issue and a simple BIOS flash will clear it up. But I usually stay away from flashing my BIOS unless I am sure its going to fix my problem.
Please any help/comment is appreciated I am going nuts since I was planning on selling my old machine and I need to get my data from my old HD into the seagate... plus it would be nice to fix the drive issue aswell....

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 21-March-07, 22:29:29
Probably not. I am using the German Edition of Windows XP that is why I can't tell you the exactly what you have to look for but I will try anyway:
One if the many options in the system settings menu has to to with Computer Management (at least this is the name of that option if I translate it from German). When you open computer management you should find a section that has to do with drive management only. Try to find it and see if the drive is listed there. You may have to activate it or assign a drive letter before Windows will be able to use it.
omg... I feel like such a noob... I forgot since I didnt have the seagate plugged in when I installed windows, I never formatted it so windows wasent assigning it a drive letter....
thanks alot guys.
:agrees:MSI!

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Hello,
I searched but didn't find info. For a new build with a 975X PUE, what is the optimal configuration of IDE/SATA drives. I want to have a configuation like:
DRIVE PURPOSE SATA or IDE?
C: VISTA OS ?
D: Data drive 2 SATA, RAID1
E: Backup for Data ?
My question is: Should I use SATA for drives C and E or IDE? Or one of each? Is there a general rule for which is preferred? All things being equal, I prefer SATA since cables are smaller.
Thx.
Scott
PS C and E will likely be single-drive, non-RAID.

Quote from: jsmartin22 on 16-June-07, 14:51:31
I thought perhaps there would be a difference data rates between the IDE/SATA, which arise only when you reach a specific # of SATA drives--in which case it might be better to begin using IDE. Looks like I was wrong. Thx.
Scott
SATA II 300 has 3.0 Gbit/sec available per port, so the number of SATA ports used should not make a difference. There is a theoretical advantage in using SATA, as it is a serial connection instead of a parallel connection with PATA.
Furthermore, because of your RAID 1 setup, you will be using AHCI mode for the onboard Intel controller. The Intel Matrix Storage driver (used for AHCI mode) might give you a couple percents extra drive performance over an IDE interface, even when using single drives.
So SATA would be the way to go...

IDE question on 975x platinum power up

This is more then likely a stupid question and a easy one but here it goes.
I have the 975x platinum power up edition board and for my main ide i have 2 hard drives installed ma/sl and on the second ide i have 1 dvd burner set as a master. when i boot up and see it load in it just shows the 2 hard drives under primary master and primary slave and then i see like 3 other spots 2nd primary 2nd slave etc. that shows nothing and even in the bios i do not see the dvd drive untill it gets past that screen and i see the jmicro boot section and it shows the atapi dvd drive and in windows all seams fine. I was just wondering why i do not see it in the bios or on the main load screen under the 2 hard drives ?
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Hello bobndeb,
the board has two different controllers. Intel ICH7DH is the primary controller (SATA Ports 1-4, IDE1). All drives attached to the ports hosted by Intel ICH7DH appear in BIOS and on the POST Screen. The secondary controller which hosts the 5th SATA port and the second IDE port is a JMicron JMB361 controller. The Jmicron controller has its own BIOS/firmware. None of the drives attached to the 5th SATA port and the IDE2-port will appear in main system BIOS or on the POST Screen. This is normal, nothing to worry about.

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I did not know you were supposed to clear CMOS after a Bios upgrade. I am in the middle of installing Vista SP1 RC0 so after that is done and stable, I will try 7.6 again and clear CMOS.
Yes, you should at least test it. Make sure that the main AC power cable is unplugged from your PSU when you press the clear CMOS button on the mainboard.
Also, list full system specs with detailed information about all components used in your configuration. If the problems persist, maybe it is just a matter of a few BIOS settings to make some adaptions to your system. If your system is running fine with 7.10, it should run fine with BIOS 7.60 as well.

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Hello everyone,
I just received my new MSI 955X Platinum motherboard today. The boot-up screen looks quite horrible! Is there any way to change it?
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Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Kamran

Yes, you can disable the boot up screen in the BIOS. But if you thought of changing it to something else, hmm you must hack the BIOS code, which I don't recommend.
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I am having what looks like a familiar issue with setting up a new build PC. Spec is as follows:
MSI 975x Platinum edition MOBO
Intel Core Duo 2 e6600 CPU
Western Digital Raptor 150GB S150 16mb 10000rpm SATA drive
Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL5
SONY DVD-RW
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I press F6 as instructed to install the SATA drive - I have created a disk with the necessary driver files from the MSI website.
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Hard drive problems with 975X Platinum edition

Hi guys.
I was wondering if you could help.
I recently upgraded my pc after the power supply was shot on my old one, I decided it was time I did a big update anyway, as it was using non pci express etc.
I plumped for the 975X Platinum complete with Samsung DVD writer, nividia 8800GTX and two Western Digital SATA II drive, a 250GB for my 'C' drive and a 500GB for my 'D' drive.
Everything went in fine, install Vista Premium perfectly, I copied across my documents I'd backed up onto an external drive onto the 'D' drive no problems...however, after downloading some Vista updates, I went to do a reboot, and it hung during POST.
After much frustration the D-thingy lights were showing it was halting during the IDE Controller initialisation. By a process of elimination, I discovered the bios won't get through POST while the 500GB 'D' is connected.
I've checked that it's not the SATA cable, the power cable, the SATA socket on the motherboard...but it just will not start up with that drive hooked up. However, if I starting Vista without the 'D' connected, then connect it while it's running (yes, I know I shouldn't really do this), do a scan for new hardware, the drive starts up mounts itself as 'D' and works happy as anything.
Could you tell me if there's some configuration I have wrong in the BIOS, or is this just simply a faulty hard drive??? As far as I know I have everything set up in BIOS correctly, such as having SATA set to IDE and not RAID etc...but I guess I could have missed something.
Any help you can offer would be much appreciate...before I decide to just send the hard drive back and hope it is that, and not something I'm overlooking.

Sorry, yeah, I got a little carried away and excited.
The problem I noticed using the Western Digital tool was that it was seeing both the drives as the 'C' drive, so obviously on booting with them both connected, it was getting into a mess.
I have no idea if I should have done this in the first place, but, when I put it all together, on the main board, there appears to be one SATA connector that's set on it's own, under the others. I'd used that for the DVD writer and placed the hard drive ones all together. So I just swapped the 'C' hard drive into the lone connection, and put the DVD Writer and 'D' drive into the ones that are clumped together. It seemed to boot up fine, then using the Western Digital tool again, set up the 'D' drive.
I've had no problems since.
I always thought that SATA was just plug it in, and it sorts itself out...so dunno if I should have done that in the first place. I'm still getting used to the newer stuff...I've made do with none PCI Express and IDE for ages now.
It must have been me setting it up wrong in the first place I guess.

975X Platinum PUE V2.0 Power shuts off after ~45 sec?

I'm looking for help with a frustrating issue. This is a new build with the following:
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*XFX GeForce 7900 GT Video Card in PCIe
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Thanks for any help in advance!

I've never done that before. I usually still have my original media so that I can reinstall my programs.
It is hairy but I am sure it is possible to manually move over all the required stuff so that it can work
again. Several things to look into:
a) Can you migrate checkpoints? XP creates checkpoints so that you can later rollback. My question
is, can you use a checkpoint and move it over to a different computer? Probably not but it might be
worth investigating.
b) Manuallly do what an installer does.
- first move over your program files directory to where you want it to reside
- the nasty part is to somehow copy over the registry that refer to the programs that you just moved.
Good luck on that one.
- also inspect the system32 directory for dll's that applications sometimes install. Move those as well.
I do recall, I needed to do something similar to what you are doing and it was a hit or miss depending on
the program. Some programs just complained it wasn't in the registry and asked if I wanted to put it in.
Those solved themselves. Things like Microsoft Word just insisted to do a reinstall.

975x Platinum Power Up Edition Help Required

Good Afternoon,
Have just purchased the following setup
Motherboard: MSI 975x Platinum Power Up Edition
Processor: Intel E6600
Ram: Cruicial Ballistix 2 x 1GB PC6400 Dual Channel (MSI Say It Is Supported)
GFX: MSI GeForce 7950GT 512MB PCI E
HDD: 2 x 80gb Seagate (Connected Via Sata)
CDROM: Sony DVD-RW
PSU: Hiper Modular 530W Black SLI Certified PSU
Think thats all you need, its been built by an experienced pc builder.
It will not start, when we switch it on it boots for about 5 seconds then shuts down and restarts, the error reporting leds are in the following combination:
Red Green
Red Red
Originally we were running Geil Ram, but realised MSI didn't support this so got some Crucial however it still doesn't work, I have read a number of threads on this forum and tried resetting the CMOS and playing around with the memory configs, any help and advice on how to get this working would be much appreciated.
Thanks

@deastwood:
Can we call you Clint for short?
Sympathies - We have a similar setup. I returned my first Corsair twins as the board would not boot with them as a twin. Turns out one was supposedly defective. BUT - when I recently replaced my Corsair twin 800s that did not work eventually with twin 1Gb CL4 800 Crucial Ballistix stix - I had a severe reboot issue and frequently - the system would not start without hitting the reset or the cold boot start button on the powerup many times. When it did not start I had the same LED settings you noted.
My colleagues who run a "confuser" shop, took out the Crucial memory, tried it in another 975 board (I think the ASUS 5B delux). and the Asus board booted just fine with the memory. They left the momory at 1.8VDIMM - stock - even though Crucial recommends 2.2 for these stix.
They removed the 975XPUE battery, reset the CMOS, and plugged the battery back in - VOILA - everything worked and today I am running as below. We have no idea why it would work after a CMOS reset as I had tried that before (but perhaps I had not left it long enough or did not press the reset button on the CMOS in the right sequence - something real simple like that????? ).
BOTTOM LINE: since they did that - it has no reboot issue - and all I did with the memory is set it manually to 5-4-4-12. It is like a ROCK now.
Others are more qualified than I about this board - but suggest you might go back to basics:
1) check the memory works in another board
2) remove battery, wait 10 minutes, press CMOS reset button for 10 seconds, replace battery
3) check yourself all the power/CPU fan connections and that you have the 4-pin molex connected to the GRAKA
(do you have a 20 or 24 pin power bar ?)
4) reseat the memory (just use one stick in either of the green mem slots)
5) do not bother connecting the IDE/CDROM until you get to post.
6) Just use one SATA drive (connected to SATA 1 (top))
7) Put in a less powerful GRAKA (a radeon 600 or NVIDIA equivalent) and run it with a VGA connector.
8) Read the MOAN guide just in case you all forgot something real simple. It does not take that long to ge through it.
It took me quite a few fiddles and frustrations to get my 6600 rig solid - sorry to hear about yours not even kick starting.
But just be a bit patient and take it from the start with as few extra bits of kit til u get past post to the Bios.
Happy rails.. and let us know how trhings are progressing... keith

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hi all,
Does anyone have a MSI 975X Platinum PUE and MSI 7950GX2 putting together as a system? (My rig's detail is as my signature)
I have a case here. These 2 only work if I use BIOS 7.0. I have tried BIOS 7.3 and 7.4, both will distort the Windows screen. To be exact, the "transparent" layer of the GUI display is distorted, such as mouse cursor appears as a big square distorted, some icons are missing, video playback is totally ruined with distorted output, etc. Only BIOS 7.0 gets them to work fine. This rules out it's due to power supply, RAM, or the card itself is the culprit.
I have yet to try on BIOS 7.1, 7.2 and other beta. But I can't tell what's wrong with the newer BIOSes, even I kept all the settings the same. I have yet to get to MSI on this...
Does anyone have similar issue with me?

Quote from: Vaniireq on 26-February-07, 09:17:57
well ...its not babble but I will try to clear it up a bit...
The blue PATA (old style IDE connection) is integrated in ICH7DH, meaning that you should be able to hook up a drive to it and it should be recognized. This is only place that you can connect your old style IDE optical drives...
The other PATA (IDE 2) and SATA 5 are controlled by the jmicron chipset (requires the jmicron driver) are intended for hard drives. The jmicron ports allow you to run a single PATA hard drive, or a single SATA drive, or you can combine a PATA hard drive and a SATA drive in a Raid.
The SATA ports 1-4 are intended for, well.. SATA devices such as hard drives and optical drives. They are controlled by the Intel chipset on your motherboard. You can operate the hard drives individually or in Raid configurations... Some of the drivers for these devices may be integrated into your Operating System, others may have to be installed using the F6 method, and others can be added after your OS is installed...
One other quick thing, both PATA and SATA drives are IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drives, since both have drive controllers built in. If you have trouble sleeping, you can read a bit more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment
@Maesus, Sorry to get off topic, just wanted to help neoplasmic understand a bit more...
I tried searching on the web and on the forums like guru3d and found no one with the same problem as you.
The only other person that I could find that has a problem is Zentos on this forum, he can not find a solution either...
Here is the thread https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=105929.0
Thanks for the info.

MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp and Areca arc-1220 problem

intel e6600 core duo
975x platinum powerup
2x kingston ddr2 PC6400 800Mhz CL5 Dual Channel Kit (KVR800D2N5K2⁄2G)
Sapphire ATI X1950XTX 512MB
4x Samsung spinpoint 500gb
Windows 2003 r2 sp2
Zalman ZM600-HP 600W
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i dont see the card in bootup, already installed bios 7.7
tried the card in an other sytem works fine
also installed the latest firmware on the arc-1220 card
anyone have an idea which bios i should try

can you see the card in windows if you boot off the on-board controller?
I know Intel boards are picky with RAID controller cards. If the Intel RAID is enabled then a lot of add-on cards won't work. Also, even with Intel RAID disabled some still won't work. I had to flash my SiI 3132 RAID card to non-RAID for it to work as a boot device.
I've had my system not even post at all when both RAIDS are enabled. But if I get a post and it boots from the Intel side, it always sees the add-on RAID card.
Also, do you have the latest BIOS? Hopefully that will fix the issue.
Myself, I have the ARC-1210 controller and have NOT had any issues on my 975, 965, P35, or X38 boards. However, only the X38 board has allowed my card to run at full speed. The other chipsets run the 2nd PCIe X16 slot at only X4. It seems it's too slow for the controller to work properly, or there is some issues still. But my X38 boards run great. I get over 300MB/s with my 4 x 150MB Raptors in RAID0.
Good luck
-=Mark=-

975X Platinum, IDE2, Jmicron Controller + DVD drives?

Hello.
I have the MSI 975X Platinum PUE motherboard, and I'm currently using 5 disk drives (4 IDE, and 1 SATA)
The SATA drive is my system disk, and it is setup as IDE as Primary Master.
I have 2 IDE hard drives on IDE1, and the 2 DVD drives are on IDE 2. Read/Write times are fine with the hard drives, but I'm not quite sure if the DVD drives are set up the best way.
I have read the whole thing about PIO and UDMA mode with the JMicron controller, but I still have a few questions.
First, a very NOOBish question. How do I find out whether the DVD drives are in PIO or UDMA mode - I simply can't remember how to do it. I have both checked in Device Manager, and in Sytem Administration (is it called that in English? My XP is in Danish )
In Device Manager, both DVD drives are listed as a SCSI devices. But the read times are strange with the 2 DVD drives.
The LG drive reads at 9 MB/s (6.6x) 26ms (Secondary Master)
The NEC ND3500A drive (burner) reads at 5235 KB/s (3.9x) 109 ms (Secondary Slave)
Tests are done with SiSoft Sandra. Shouldn't the NEC drive perform better? It is supposed to be the better one of the 2 drives ???
Can anyone tell if the performances are as they should be? I'm a little confused
Thanks in advance

Good Luck!
Right click My Computer>Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE/ATAPI controllers>Double Click on the controller and then > Advanced Settings
My experience is that you cannot enable DMA with the jMicron driver, which is why you have low read speeds. Write speeds are just as bad. 1 hour to write 4GB Data on secondary channel, as opposed to under4 minutes for 4.4GB Data on primary.
The DVD needs to be on the primary channel.

975X Platinum Power Up Edition v 2.1 - Will not Boot!

Hi All,
I have what seems to me to be a major issue. I've just built a new machine with the following specs :
PSU : Coolermaster eXtreme Power 650W PSU - ATX 12V V2.01 120mm Fan 20+4pin
MBO : 975X Platinum Power Up Edition v 2.1
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache
MEM: OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 5-5-5-12 GOLD XTC *SPECIAL OPS* ED
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HDD: Hitachi Deskstar T7k500 HDT725032VLA360 320GB SATAII (2)
When I boot, the D-Bracket briefly shows green lights at position 1 and 4 and then just hangs on one green light in position 4. I see no display on the monitor. All the fans are spinning but nothing else happens!
I got the following response from MSI :
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your concern. Please follow the below steps to have a try.
1.unplug the battery and clear cmos.
2.clean up all the components and plug them again.
3.change another memory.
4.change another power supply.
5.make sure whether the cpu fan is fixed properly and tightened.
If still can't help, please mail us again.
Regards
MSI Technical Support Team
I have tried everything they said, but it has made no difference. The strange thing is that no red leds come on. I thought that the first in the display sequence of the d-bracket was four red leds.
Any ideas? I really need your help!
Many Thanks,
Matt

Did you connect the 8-pin +12V-CPU-connector to your power supply?
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GFX : Sapphire X1950GT 256MB
Make sure the 6-pin PCIe connector on your graphics card is hooked up to your PSU. Also use the 4-pin (4x1) PCIe connector on your mainboard to re-assure stable power supply.
Take the board out of your case and put it on a non-conducting surface for testing. Use barebone configuration only:
- CPU
- one RAM module in Slot 1
- graphics card
- D-Bracket
- disconnect hard drives, optical drives, USB devices, add-on cards and USB front panel connectors.
- Clear CMOS (remove main power plug removed from PSU first)
Then try to boot your system again and see if there are any changes. If not, use the other RAM module and try again.
One more thing:
Make sure that you are really using the Power-Up Edition of the 975X Platinum mainboard. The regular edition (MS-7246 v1.x) does not support your CPU. There was a case not too long ago in which a user bought a 975X Plat. PUE mainboard (MS-7246 v2.x) that did not want to work as expected. It turned out that he actually got the older edition of the board.

Random reboots with 975x Platinum v2.1?

As the title says, I have the MSI 975x Platinum v2.1. The system randomly reboots fairly, often, and I'm not sure what could be causing it.
I had this setup for a few weeks, before it locked up overnight and destroyed my memory. Board would halt on the memory initialization during POST, so I sent it back for RMA and now have the replacement. While waiting for the RMA, I bought some memory from a local retailer so I would have something to use. The system would randomly reboot, sometimes in Windows, sometimes while browsing the BIOS menus. I figured the motherboard was damaged too and I sent it back to the retailer for a RMA replacement. I now have the LE version of the board. I also bought a new power supply because I now thought it fried my stuff. Everything put back together, I'm still having random reboots. Here's the system specs:
# Intel Core 2 EE x6800
# MSI 975x Platinum v2.1 LE (BIOS 7.4 official)
# mushkin REDLINE 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000
# BFG Tech BFGR79256GTOCE GeForce 7900GT 256MB GDDR3
# 1x NEC IDE DVDR, 1x Seagate 200GiB IDE, 1x Seagate 80GiB SATA2, 1x Seagate 400GiB SATA1, 1x Seagate 500GiB SATA2
# Windows XP Pro SP2
# Tagan TG-480-U22 ATX 480W, then mushkin HP-580AP ATX12V / EPS12V 580W
Currently, the system can play games for a couple hours with dnetc running in the background. Yet when I leave it running a torrent (or whatever) overnight, I'll wake up and find it rebooted (after like 6 hours of uptime). I've also gotten it to reboot while just browsing web pages for a few minutes. The northbridge heatsink/heatpipe does get pretty hot, and my room does get warm, so I'll try adding a spare fan tonight. Though, I find this unlikely as the system should be working fine at stock speeds/voltages. Other than that, anyone have any suggestions?

I was actually using the Tagan in combined mode until I started having problems (ie, when the RAM died). By then, neither combined nor split appeared to have any helpful effect. I do not know if the Tagan was the cause of my problems, or if this is all something (???) else. I suppose I could try it again, but I'd rather not break my newly RMA'ed stuff. The mushkin power supply has 4x 20a 12v rails, but it appears to automatically determine whether they should be combined or split.
Speaking of the 12v rails. I noticed that the BIOS reports varying values for the 12v. I've seen it at 12.3v, 13.0v, 13.7v, and 14.0v. However, the dualcorecenter software in Windows always reports 12.2v - 12.3v. I have no idea which is accurate.

X1950PRO Crossfire Incompatible with 975X Platinum

*** BIG APOLOGIES TITLE INCORRECT SHOULD READ X1950PRO *** ED - Oh, I can modify the title too
Hiyas,
Very brief rundown of the setup -
Thermaltake Toughpower 600w
MSI 975X Platinum Power Up Edition
MSI Radeon X1950Pro Graphics Card x 2
Now to begin with I'm pretty sure that ATI did away with the whole 'Mastercard' set up and you don't need to have one 'Mastercard' and one normal card, could someone clarify this for me? http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/howitworksdemo.html <-- That would appear to confirm what I already believe.
Secondly, the MSI 975X board that I purchased which is an alleged Crossfire ready board, didn't have the ribbon cable in the box, nor is it said to have the ribbon cable in the box as far as the contents go. In fact the manual is still talking about the DVI bridging cable, which I believe is the now defunct way of doing this? Correct me if I'm wrong.
The said ribbon cable was not in either of the X1950Pro graphics card contents either which again leaves me wondering how the setup should be instigated. Could somebody please clarify for me if the above Crossfire demo I have posted is what I should be looking at, and should I be harrassing my supplier about the missing ribbon cable, even though the box contents says nothing of a ribbon cable?? Should the ribbon cable be supplied with the card or the motherboard?
Ugggh

Quote from: Maesus on 28-March-07, 09:41:53
What is your BIOS? try with different BIOSes?
Maesus, you posted in my thread regarding the sagas I experienced with BIOS and getting the RAID to function on this board.
BIOS is 7.1 and the other guys were pretty sure the only thing I would lose was the HPET Vista crapola by backdating to this version. Though in all fareness I understand that crossfire setups are few and far between.
Now the reason I'm stuck with the old BIOS version of 7.1 is that 7.16 reports RAM at 3.4Gb and anything newer than either of them means I lose my fifth SATA port which once again leaves me nowhere.
Can anybody please point me to where in the system post it should show that the system has detected both cards?
That way I know straight up if it's a BIOS/Hardware issue or a Windows/Driver issue.
also
Should I be able to run a card in the secondary slot (obviously speed is reduced) without a card in the primary slot?
This is where I'm at right now.
Removed secondary card.
Carried out format and reinstallation with only primary card present.
Shut down system after completion of installation.
Physically installed secondary card, power to card and two bridging ribbons.
Booted system to windows and no problems.
Installed ATI 7.2 Catalyst Software.
Reboot.
All working fine.
Enter ATI Catalyst control panel to enable Crossfire but option not present anywhere.
Am running Catalyst 7.2 and at this stage 7.3 hasn't reared it's head yet.
Quote from: DryHeat on 28-March-07, 09:55:50
Do you have a version of a 32bit XP lying around that you can try if the new driver is no help?
Hell yeh, course I do, but the other fellas did say that I should stick with 64 cause the Intel memory controller wouldn't allocate the correct memory space with XP32.... arrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Someone give me a bottle of Scotch and a handgun

975X Platinum SATA HD, IDE disaster.

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