Duel boot K7N2 Delta using SATA and EIDE

I have a K7N2 Delta MB with SATA running RAID 0, also I have HD pluged into the Primary EIDE cable slot, using SC ( cable select ), everything works fine. What I want to know is if anyone has had any luck using BOOT MAGIC (comes with Patition magic) to duel boot between the SATA and the EIDE drive. Also I have found that once I set the SATA to be bootable AND loaded XP then I was not able to boot from any other device, floppy or EIDE. The floppy works fine when I use it once running on XP. I have the floppy set as the first boot device the EIDE drive c: as second boot device and SCSI as third boot device, the system always boots from SCSI. Any suggestions out there great ones?
Never mind I found the answer.
I took off SCSI from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd boot. enable other boot and all works fine now.

Wonkanoby, You are now officially my hero. Did exactly what you said. IT WORKED. My system screams now. Thanks.
p.s. Have you ever thought about rewriting the manual for MSI. Their documentation was confusing at best.
p.p.s Saw the other reply below about reflashing the bios. I see no need to do that. follow the instructions in the first reply and you should be good to go.

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Can MSI K7N2 DELTA use SATA harddrive without using RAID??

Can MSI K7N2 DELTA use SATA harddrive without using RAID??
THNAK YOU

well sort off as although if you attatch a single drive you have to create an array in the raid bios ,its not a true array more a means for it to work with the drive
but if you mean without creating an array in the raid bios then no

K7N2 Delta has jibbery and garbled Video

I just purchased the FX Nvidia XT TD256 video card with the K7N2 Delta ILSR Ultra and after jumpering it to safe mode jumpers 10 and 11 i think, and clearing cmos, the screen works fine, then I restart machine, sometimes without going into bios, and video is jittery and garbled lettering. I can't get the machine to boot into windows, or even be stable enough to load windows, What could be the problem? I just purchased both of these this week, I am also using the AthlonXP 2600+ cpu, and Generic memory with TT Performance 1gig 2700, PSU 28a@+3.3v. 30a@+5v, 34a@+12v Aspire 500W, WD 80g, WD 120g, and on I/O card WD 250g HDD's. This problem occurs with every reboot, no matter what setting are in bios.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
urme9696

The nforce 2 chipset is fine, dont think thats the problem because Ive built machines with the same type board and video card without any problems at all. Do you have a different video card to try in the K7N2?? Also check and see what the BIOS version is - It might need to be updated. Maybe try a differnt stick of ram if possible. A little more info on the card if possible. its a FX5200 I think, but whats the brand?? Does it have a plug ( Molex or floppy type) for extra power on the card??
One other thing to check, Make sure you dont have an extra stand offs on the motherboard. Some boards take more than the 6 that that the K7n2 do. If so this may be trying to short something out.

K7N2 Delta LISR SATA problem

Can anyone tell me regarding the K7N2 Delta LISR SATA HDD...
do we have to create array first b4 installing win98/winxp?
I can't find the way installing without creating an array. I remember it's not required for KT6 Delta?
after creating array, in fdisk mode it run so slowly!!! Is it normal?
anyone help is appreciated!!!
p/s: it's single SATA 80GB Seagate HDD

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=50531&sid=

[nForce] Problems with K7N2 Delta 2 Platinum and SATA

Hi All
I have a MSI K7N2 Delta 2 Platinum with an AMD 3200+ Barton.
I have 2 x 512mb Crucial PC3200 DDR400 RAM.
I have a Samsung 80gb SATA hard drive.
I am trying to install Windows XP Pro onto a blank SATA drive. The trouble is that I get into the Win XP Pro setup and it just doesn't recognise the drive. I have tried installing the drivers on the Flopy, but the drive just isnt recognised for me to install Win XP to the SATA drive to use as a boot drive.
I've read the advice thread, but couldn't find my problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks

Thank for that. I haven't done that but I have got XP to recognise the drive to install to it.
XP went as far as going to the lovely bright XP installation screen and has installed hardware. When it got to installing the network it just froze up and stopped working.
Now I think the problem may be that I set the one SATA drive up to be RAID (striped) in the RAID config. I will disable this tonight and have another look. The thing that I would like to know is what setting in the BIOS of this mobo means that the SATA drive can be used as IDE? I don't have two SATA drives to use in RAID, so I figured that I have to get the one SATA to act as an IDE drive. I have SATA spreading disabled, but am unsure as to which of the other settings to change. Soz to keep asking!
EDIT: I sorted the RAID config thing. Fomatted the drive and re-installed XP. Once again, it just stops once it gets to the windowsesque creen. It stops at various points during the installation, sometimes at the "installing networks" bit, sometimes at the "completing installation" (after coying data). I just don't know what to do realy. Might RMA the board and go back to my trusted old Aopen AK77-600GN :-(
Anyone any ideas?

Practical HDD Configuration on K7N2's Promise SATA and NV IDE3

Folks,
There are lots of good fragments on the board about use of IDE3, but not much on total layout of disks for modestly disk intensive applications. Without going to server-type SCSI320 controllers and super-fast drives, here are some questions ---
1a. I'm going to assume until some wise person disuades me, that IDE will just saturate too quickly with good drives.
1b. With the K7N2 architecture, I'm guessing that the Promise chip will pump data on the bus and become less saturated than IDE. Do we know this for sure?
2a. I come from the high end unix world before the days of gigantic storage devices. Back in the day it is an article of faith that disk striping almost always yielded better results.
I'm beginning to wonder about that for non-database PC applications for several reasons. An article that looks at queue depth also reveals that as you add striped drives to an SATA controller, performance may degrade. With just the Promise chip this is probably nit-picking, as were only going to stripe 2 drives. Still one wonders. Here's the paper --
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200406/20040625TCQ_1.html
2b. Is it possible to run the Promise chip as JBOD? This could be really interesting. Can the IDE3 drive run alone, outside the Promise array?
AND FINALLY...
3a. On this board there are many stories of woe about using the NV IDE3, and good bits of info, but nothing complete. How do you build and manage it?? I don't mean ONE drive in the system, but TWO on Promise SATA and one on IDE3.
3b. Also, since it's controlled by NV, is there reason to believe that data will pump through more quickly than with the standard IDE bus (IDE1 and IDE2)??
This should be interesting...
Cheers, u.
Please PM me if you like.

Sorry chaps!
For current sytem see sig below.
Ta, Britt
IRQ 0   System timer   OK
IRQ 1   Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard   OK
IRQ 3   Communications Port (COM2)   OK
IRQ 5   NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management   OK
IRQ 6   Standard floppy disk controller   OK
IRQ 8   System CMOS/real time clock   OK
IRQ 9   Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System   OK
IRQ 12   PS/2 Compatible Mouse   OK
IRQ 13   Numeric data processor   OK
IRQ 14   Primary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 15   Secondary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 18   WinXP Promise FastTrak 376/378 (tm) Controller   OK
IRQ 19   SupraExpress 56i   OK
IRQ 19   MSI MS-StarForce GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X)   OK
IRQ 20   Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 20   NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface   OK
IRQ 21   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 22   Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 22   NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby(R) Digital)   OK

K7n2 Delta Ilsr + Sata!!!

I have bought a nice sata hd: seagate 120 gig, but i don't know how to boot it....
I used fastbuild, but me sata drive only appears in windows and i wan't to boot windows from it, but in the bios i see no options for sata
so I wondered if anybody knew how to use sata with this mainboard i would be very happy!
greetz junky

create the array in raid bios
have it as only drive bar a cdrom in box
set scsi second to cdrom in boot order
hit f6 as xp starts and feed in drivers

Run SATA and EIDE HDs (P7N SLI Platinum)

What would be the BIOS setup and cableing to run an EIDE drive as D: when the primary boot drive (C:) is a SATA? [P7N SLI Platinum].
BTW: from an earlier post, new computer up and running- I cloned my EIDE HD on old system to new SATA HD. Installed SATA HD into new system, booted XP CD and ran the Repair (the later one). Booted into Safe-Mode and loaded nVidi Ethernet Drivers, rebooted, reactivate and all is working.

Drive letters are not assigned by BIOS or hardware, but by the operating system. If you install the operating system on the SATA Drive, it should automatically become drive C:. If you want to make that automatism faik-safe, simply unplug the IDE Drive when you are installing the operating system on the SATA Hard Drive,

Cannot boot into Arch using Gummiboot and Intel fake RAID

This is my first time installing Arch Linux in a few years. The installation seemed to go fine, but I can't boot into it. At this point, when I try to boot into it this is my console output: http://pastie.org/9389435
First of all, what confuses me about this output are the RAID lines. My system currently has two RAID arrays: My RAID0 array where Windows 7 is installed and my RAID1 array where I'm attempting to install Arch Linux. My fstab nor Gummiboot entry files refer to the RAID0 array at all. Why does it activate the partitions on the RAID0 array but not the RAID1 array?
Second of all, lines 10, 11, 14, and 16 refer to /dev/sdd3. When I mount the partitions on my RAID array using the Arch live CD, I have to refer to them as either /dev/md/RAID1_0p1-4 or /dev/md124p1-4. The /dev/sda-sdd seem to refer to the individual drives. Why is it different when I try to boot into the system?
Here is my current fstab: http://sprunge.us/bQCT
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Here is my gummiboot arch.conf entry file: http://sprunge.us/HPVb
I'm also referring to my root partition by label in this file, rather than the UUID which seems to be the norm. The reason for this is because I was previously getting an error saying that it couldn't even find the root partition based on that UUID. As you can see, I left the UUID line commented in case I have to use it again later.
Here is my mkinitcpio.conf file, which I'm thinking the problem has something to do with this since it's the part I understand the least: http://sprunge.us/IFDL
The modifications I made to this file were based on what I read in the fake raid article on the Arch wiki. All I did was make sure dm_mod and dm_mirror were added to the MODULES line and dmraid was added to the HOOKS line. At first I also had chipset_module_driver in MODULES, but it just generated warnings when I ran `mkinicpio -p linux` so I took it out. I don't know what that module would be for, since it only says "if necessary" on the wiki.
As for the emergency shell it puts me in when it fails to boot, there's not really much I can do from there. The filesystem it puts me in looks entirely different from the root filesystem I can mount from the live cd.
At this point, I'm stumped and I'm not sure where to go from here.

x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
This is the line that's causing it. It's probably not because of this line, but because kdm isn't starting properly (possibly erroring) and being re-run because of the respawn option.
Try booting into single user mode, changing the default run level to 3, and debugging it from there (figure out why kdm doesn't want to start right).

Using SATA and 2 ATA drives

I'm having some trouble getting the last ATA drive to be found, the normal primary ATA, as the sata drive has been set to primary.
Where can i set it so i can use it. can't really seem to find it.
Any help is more than welcome.

Assuming W2K or XP, set for
Native mode
SATA only (to boot from PATA) or PATA only (to boot from SATA)
SATA keep enabled - yes
PATA keep enabled - yes

About K7N2 Delta-ILSR SATA

I am already used up all the PATA/ide connector (for 2 optical drive, and 3 HD), and want to add a new HD...
Soo i am want to use the two idle SATA connector on my motherboard, the problem is: I don't need the RAID function, just plain SATA HD
is that possible?...i read the manual said it only for raid, and i don't want to make a wrong HD purchase(cause RMA can be pain in my ass in my condition)

Quote from: mechwookie on 09-September-05, 16:15:12
Like you want to, i've just started using my SATA connections.
You have to use it as RAID, theres no way around it. However, how you set it up is down to you. Raid 0/1 whatever.
Can't answer anything myself with regard to just using the the SATA's for another set of storage would be worth it in the long run or not, but will say this, Installing on the SATA's take a lil less time than using a standard IDE drive (just ya basic 7200rpm SATA, not the 10k Raptors which some say can install XP in under 20mins)
Will say this, just what are you planning to use the drives for? And can you post a sig with all you system details in it, including you ram make, and PSU voltage rails current capacity (that last bit is kinda compulsory when it comes to this forum )
Soo there no other ways heh...maybe i suppose just swamp one of the old HD (40gigs) with the new one(200GB likely)
THe new drives should be just another generic volume aka not for installing OS...because the old ones getting full AGA!N...
Haven't i post all the details in my sig?...ow the rail capacity are:
Vcore 1.63-1.7,
3.3v=3.3-3.4,
5V= 5-5.1,
12V= 11.4-11.70
I think it still OK just +- 5% from the real voltage.........

K7n2 delta l mobo and usb2 on win2k

been trying to install the usb2 for days with no luck. i even used the sp4 pack and followed the procedure. i am using windows 2k pro. any suggestion? thanks.
peter

Yes I am reusing my OS and Hard Drive. I have normally done a fully format and reinstall of OS. I will try your suggestion and let you know. Want be until the weekend thou!
I will also try the 98 Boot disk option as well
I just want something to show on my monitor when using the new board
Thanks for your quick replies.

K7N2 delta L sata hell

allo,
Coo what a mess, this sata drive has put me thru hell and back.
ok its a diamondamax 120 plus 9 sata. Created me raid 0 and partitioned it with PM magic and installed windows - kept crashin on the windows updates, solved that by powering it with the sata converter rather than the standard molex 4 pin. Problem was i couldent make an image of my install with powerquests drive image - norton ghost - acronis true image. I came to the conclusion that this 120 sata would have to be used as storage and i would put windows on a standard 40gig ide drive.
Ok - so did that. Now i cant write anything to the 120 sata without windows lockup up. Formatted it several times in XP still no joy.
Jesus christ almighty what a lash up. I just wanted a fast 120 gig drive - never wanted to have any kinda raid setup at all but you have to for the drive to become visible to windows.
What the hell is going on....... anybody ???
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K7N2 Delta ILSR SATA Performance Questions

hello
does anyone know if there are drivers that will increase performance? i just got a WD Raptor and ran a benchmark and it runs at 47 MB/s. shouldnt i be able to get almost 150 MB/s ?
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

as i said no drive exists that moves data that fast
they will all shift the 2 or 8 mb they have cached at the full bus speed
after that they get no were near it
there is nothing wrong with that result
but sandras not a good benchmark for drives

System won't boot :/ K7N2 Delta

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kmslayer,
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512meg mushira ram or what ever the name is
If you RAM nForce Approved?
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