K8N Neo4 Platinum: SiI 3114 Raid 5 is anyone doing it?

I've scoured the internet google, yahoo, etc. I can't find one single review of anyone using the SiI 3114 chip for raid 5. I want to put 4 sata drives on the SiI 3114 controller in raid 5 but I am concerned about performance. See, I am putting together a home media server and these drives will be written to often and read from constantly - 24/7. Originally I wanted to get a hardware raid 5 controller however I ran into a few problems. There are no current mobos that support PCI-x (if you're not aware PCI-e and PCI-x are not the same thing) and sataII/PCI-e/any current technologies. This is a problem because all hardware raid 5 cards use PCI-x. Sticking them in a standard PCI slot will kill performance and is pretty useless. There is one exception which is the Areca cards but they are all over $500 (actually closer to $1000) and thats overkill for a home server.
So all I would really like to know is if anyone has experieince with, seen a review, knows a friend - anything - that can tell me how bad the performance of raid 5 on the SiI 3114 (the 2nd sata controller on the K8N Neo4 Platinum) is. I am quite anxious as I have spent almost 2 weeks looking for all this info. I know the SiI 3114 is a software solution, so I am not expecting anything amazing spped-wise, but I do need it to perform smoothly. I will be putting an AMD64 3500+ with a gig of crucial ram (2 512mb sticks) in this box and there will be no overclocking.
Someone please enlighten me? Thanks alot!

Sorry but I can only assume you are reffering to the SLI board which only has 2 ports. The non-sli version has 4 ports.
See here: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Neo4_Platinum&class=mb.
Quote
Silicon Image's SATARAID5 supports another 4 SATA ports(SATA5-8). Transfer rate is up to 150MB/s
-    RAID 0 or 1, RAID5, RAID10, and JBOD groups are supported
-    Support up to 4 SATA devices connected to a single controller
I've been struggling with a way to get raid 5 on an nforce4 chipset for almost 2 weeks. So I've done my homework though I am not a tech expert by any means. Actually, this has been a thorn in my side till I discovered this new MSI board. I understand that more PCI-e raid 5 cards will be comming to market this quarter but, I assume, they will probably fall in the Areca's price range. So I'm hopping MSI has come to my rescue :D. Otherwise I have to buy an old technology operon board (no sataII, no pci-e, no anything current) and server hardware is totally out of my technical experience so I would like to avoid that if possible. Also, if I didn't mention it, what I want to do is use raid 5 with this chip with all 4 ports (4x250gb sata drives). Thanks!

Similar Messages

  • Constant HDD access (K8N Neo4 Platinum)

    Hello all, this is my first time posting on these forums.
    A couple of days ago I put together a new system for myself, with the following components:
    * Athlon64 3200+ processor
    * MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard
    * 1Gb RAM
    * Gigabyte 128Mb GeForce 6600GT graphics card
    * 2x Seagate 250Gb 7200rpm SATA drives
    * LG IDE dual-layer DVD-RW drive
    * Apacer 7-in-1 internal USB 2.0 card reader
    * Thermaltake "soprano" ATX midi-tower w/ 400W PSU
    The two hard drives I have connected to ports SATA5 and SATA6 on the motherboard and set up in a RAID1 configuration (using the on-board Silicon Image SiI 3114 RAID controller). I then installed Windows XP Professional, which went on fine. The only problem I have now is that the hard drives are being constantly accessed by the system, even when I'm doing nothing on the system. This isn't just an occasional access once every second or so, the little HDD LED just flickers away merrily the whole time. I have run both filemon and diskmon on the system, and found that while no particular files appear to be being accessed, there is almost constant write activity being performed to the hard drives.
    I have narrowed it down to somehow involving the Windows XP RAID drivers. If I boot from the Windows XP install disk and load the third party drivers for the SiI 3114, I get the constant disk access when sitting at the first screen of the install process ("Welcome to Windows XP" text-only screen). If I do the same without loading the drivers (thus Windows does not recognise the RAID drive), no disk access. I have tried updating the RAID controller drivers under the Device Manager (now up to version 1.2.0.0), but it does not fix the problem. I have done a full virus and spyware scan (bearing in mind that this is a clean install), with no results. I have checked all running processes and services (including making sure Indexing Service is not running), but have been unable to find anything that could be causing this constant activity. I have yet to try actually breaking the mirror and running the drives off the normal SATA controller. I will be trying that tonight when I get home if no other solution presents itself, but obviously I would rather get it behaving properly in RAID1 if at all possible.
    It's driving me crazy. There doesn't appear to be any actual issues with the performance of the machine, but the constant hard disk activity can't be good for the drives long-term. I have searched these forums for a possible solution, and while some people have had similar problems, none of the suggested solutions have worked for me so far. If anyone can help me with my dilemma, I would be Eternally Grateful(tm).

    Yes! At least I'm not alone... constant disk ticking is driving me nuts too.
    I have same issue with a newly built system - different board but Sil3114.
    My C: is on the NF4 SATA interface, but I have 4 250GB Seagaets on the Sil3114, intended for a RAID5 array. Having installed XP, I've become distracted by the constant disk access and have been trying everything to eliminate it before proceeding with the rest of the build - nogo. Your post gave me the clue - boot with Sil3114 disabled = no disk activity; boot with enabled = constant disk flogging.
    I've got the Sil driver up to 1.2.3.1 but no better. Suspect it may be the Sil3114 BIOS that needs upgrading but seems no way to flash it - have you got anywhere with your debugging?
    Appreciate a solution before I go crazy with the tick, tick tick....

  • K8N Neo4 Platinum, how to move MBR to sata (make it drive #1)?

    I am not sure I am phrasing the question correctly, so bear with me. I have a K8N Neo4 platinum with the SiI3114 controller and sata ports 4-8 (I believe its what they are calling PCB 1.x) with bios v1.D. I moved the board to another box and installed winXP on it. I was running it with IDE hard drives. Everything was working great but the OS was running really slow so I bought a SATA 300 mb/s drive and pluged it into SATA1 (I read about using ports 3 and 4 for raid but I do not want to use the NVraid at all, it is disabled). Then I proceeded to reinstall win XP. In the setup, I deleted the original C partiton and created one on the sata drive and rebooted so that there would be no "C" drive confusion by the winxp setup (have had that problem before and this keeps it from happening). Went through the setup and the sata was correctly reported as "C". Told windows to install itself there but it told me that it needed to write to MBR on the old c drive but that, since I had deleted the partiton, it couldn't and had to format it. So I knew that something was wrong.
    So I rebooted and disabled the ide bus that contained the old IDE drive and just left the CD ide bus enabled. WinXP installed fine with no complaints. Then it rebooted and I re-enabled the ide bus in the bios. It wouldn't boot into the partiton I just installed winxp on! To get it to boot, I had to use F11 (the bios boot menu) and select the sata drive. Went through the whole setup winXP thing and rebooted. Same problem, it wouldn't boot the sata drive. :(
    As long as that ide bus with the old ide drive is enabled, it won't boot the sata drive! I have rearranged the boot order on the bios every way possible. I opened up the box and moved that ide chain with the old ide drive to the ide2 port and put the dvd drive on ide1. I made the old drive slave and the prior slave master. That didn't fix it either. How do I tell this motherboard that the 1st drive is the sata drive? How do I tell it the MBR should be there not on the old ide drive? How do I fix this? Thanks!

    Thank you for your replies! Hans, thank you I will give it a go again doing full formats all the way. I usually use the full format when installing winXP but I did things in a different order than you instructed so I will definately try it.
    Aicjofs, thank you, There are 3 hard drives in this system currently. There is the ide hard drive that used to be the "c" drive (a western digital 160gb ata133 7200rpm 8mb cache) and a second ide hard drive that is an extended partition with 1 logical drive with data on it (western digital 300gb ata133 7200rpm 8mb cache). Then there is a sata hard drive in sata1 port with 2 partitions one primary and one extended. The extended partion does have data on it as I moved stuff there after I got winXP up the 2nd time (western digital 250gb sata II 7200rpm 16mg cache).  Right now, I have the ide drive with data on it as ide2 master and the old "c" drive as ide2 slave and it is unformatted and contains no partion information (I deleted the partition  after I installed the SATA drive and installed winXP). XP won't boot. What happens is that, if I take the winxp cd out, it gives me a "no system" error. If I leave the WinXP cd in it boots that disk. However, if I use "f11" and choose to boot the sata drive, winxp comes up just fine. If I disable the ide bus with the two ide hard drives, it boots winxp just fine.
    Edit: bios is v1.D. It feels like this mobo is telling windows setup that the master ide drive is the first disk and to ignore everything else. It feels like if I can just tell the mobo that the sata drive is the first disk then everything will work . It is late night where I am now, and I've been fighting with this since the afternoon so I might have to goto sleep but I will be back at it tomorrow and will go though what Hans instructed. If anyone has any otehr ideas, I'd really appreciate that as well.

  • Strange power-on (issue?) with K8N Neo4 Platinum

    Hi all, i have a new K8N Neo4 Platinum, non-sli.
    My rig:
    A643000+ winch, no overclock
    2x512MB Corsair XMS DDR400MHz
    2x200GB Seagate mirroring
    Plextor PX-708A
    BenQ DVD Burner
    AN OLD Matrox Mystique 4MB PCI  (new pci-e gfx card later...)
    A powerfull enermax coolergiant 600W ATX 2.0 power supply
    Latest official nforce4 drivers and bios
    It seems to be ok: installed winXP pro sp2 and updates, installed two Seagate in raid-mirroring with the nforce4 controller, installed some progs and utils, firewall is ok, prime95 go without problems for 1 our (more tests later), cpu temp is 34°C and sys temp is 30°C.
    CoreCenter Say:
    Vcore -> 1.41V
    3.3V -> 3.39V
    +5V -> 5.13V
    +12V -> 12.26V
    memory volt -> 2.60V
    FSB -> 200MHz
    PCI-E -> 100MHz
    cpu volt -> By-VID
    Apparently no weird things...
    When i switch-on the Pc, for some seconds(  ̃10 secs) it don't want to boot, optical drives blink repeatly and the screen is blank, like a bad overclock... But the machine isn't overclocked, and the bios is ok, i think. After 10 secs, finally it go and run flawlessly, post and other things are ok. When i reboot in win, the 10secs-issue repeat itself. So this strange thing at the post is normal? Anyone with the same "problem"? For now the rig is ok when it logon in winXP...

    Hi all my friends 
    @JER101 >>> Ehrr i mean post, sorry 
    I had unplugged the optical drives, but the problem persist. When plugged, they blink for some times and after blinking the machine go into post-phase and after it boot in the correct manner. I think the PCI card is the problem, like some of you said... I will buy one pci-e card (obviously), but i hope things are not dangerous for now 
    In the mean time, i have a new problem: emule+firewall=BSOD. I know, there are tons of post about this issue around, but the solution is unclear... Tried to disable DEP, patched WinXP SP2 with latest things from winupdate, but nothing work for me, emule and the firewall generate a crash&reboot. Tried with the Marvell LAN, too, without success.
    Any suggestions? Usefull links? If i uninstall the "NVIDIA Forceware Network Access Manager" it will work without problem with a thirdy part firewall, like sysgate?
    P.S.
    What's the problem with nvidia drivers? C'mon nvidia, solve this damned issue! 

  • XP64bit installation halts, K8N Neo4 Platinum - No SATA drives found?

    My setup:
    Athlon 64 3500+
    K8N Neo4 Platinum
    2GB OCZ 3200 Premier
    2) WD Sata 80GB HD's (for RAID 0)
    Nvidia 6800GT Extreme VGA
    I was recently lucky enough to get my hands on a real Windows XP Pro64bit Extended Edition. I gathered quite a few 64bit drivers which claim to do the job (so they say.)
    However I ran into a very strange issue during installation.
    My main concern was getting RAID drivers to utilize after pressing F6 during the Windows install. Unfortunately I could not find Nvidia drivers so I went with the Silicon Image Sil3114 64bit drivers I got from their website. Copied them to a disk and thought I was ready to rock N roll. I have updated all BIOS to latest versions as of the date of this post.
    Now I went into the RAID BIOS and setup my RAID 0 Array and both SATA drives are shown. All went well in this dept.
    I began my installtion of XP64 and pressed F6 to install the RAID drivers. Popped the floppy in and the driver files were copied successfully.
    I continued on to the point where you are prompted to setup Windows XP and it searches for any previous installs.
    I continue to where I should get the dislmaimer and to press F8, however the install halts and say no hard drives were found. Setup cannot continue.
    Any ideas as to why my drives are not being detected during installation? They show up fine under the RAID setup BIOS.
    Any info or thoughts is truly appreciated.

    You need to make your own floppy for the nvidia 64 ide drivers.
    How to install Windows on SATA using F6 to load Drivers
    Follow item 1 Obviously usinfg the Neo4 64bit unified driver pack Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
    luck

  • Difference between K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI and K8N-SLI Platinum

    Hey guys.... I have one question and i hope you can help me.
    I'm about to get an MSI SLI Platinum motherboard, but it seems that there are two versions, the K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI and the K8N-SLI Platinum.
    What is the real difference between them? As i can see in the manual, the Neo4 version has the additional SATA2 and Gbit LAN controller.
    Anyone: Does your K8N-SLI board have 4 or 6 SATA2 ports? and 1 or 2 LANs?
    At this picture  http://www.midtdata.dk/asp/index.asp?varernr=K8N-SLI-PLAT&goto=productinfo&mainfunc=link I can see that there are 6 blue SATA connectors (lower right corner), and 2 LAN ports left to the LPT port... But the description says 4 SATA and 1 LAN, and so says the manual.
    To all owners of this mobo:  Does this picture look like your K8N-SLI Platinum or does it look like your K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI ?

    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?board=36.0
    d/l a raid manual and all should be clear

  • K8N NEO4 Platinum the boat anchor from hell!

    I just asembled the following:
    MSI-7100-030 K8N NEO4 PlatinUm SLI
    Geoforce 6800 PCIE
    2 Gig DDR400
    2x200Gb WD SATAII drive
    2x80GB  Seagfate SATA drives
    2x80GB  Wd IDE drives
    I get terrible performance.
    Takes One hour to copy a 6Gig file to another drive or folder.
    Multi tasking is almos nonexixstant.
    I got this board as a white box [oem].
    No software or manuals.
    So I Dl'd the system & raid drivers from MSI.
    As i did not run well I then got updated drivers form Nvidia & from Silicone Image.
    No better.
    I ran a benchmark program (Passmark Perfomance Test) and was very unhappy.
    Has anyone had similiar issues?
    Would anyone download a copy of this software from:
    http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm.
    Please run the "Run All test Sequentially" icon [second from end of tolbar].
    Save & email me the results at [email protected]
    Should take no more than 5 minutes.
    Please specify your system build for comparison.
    Thanks & happy newyear!

    selkov,
    you don't appear to have a CPU or PSU in your system, can you tell us what they are please?

  • RMA'ed K8N Neo4 Platinum board, no sound on the new board's output

    Hi Folks,
        I just got back the replacement for the K8N Neo4 Platinum boad I sent in a month ago.  The good news -- my mirrored RAID array came back up and my WinXP/SP2 setup looks fine.  The bad news -- my front speaker output doesn't put out any sound.  My Amplified 2.1 speaker set was plugged into my older machine and working fine, and I just swapped the speaker cable into the green output plug on my MB, and no sounds comes out.  Sounds was working on the previous MB which I sent in for RMA, so the software on my HDD's should have been set correctly to generate sounds on the new MB.
        First, any suggestions on how to get the sound outputs working?  Second, any pointers on how to diagnose what's going on?  Should I be seeing "Realtek '97" (or something like that) for the playback and recording devices, for instance?
        Thanks in advance for the help!
    Clark 

    Couple of things come to mind.  Power on the system and head on' over to the bios.  Ensure the audio onboard is actually turned on...or if the board they sent you had it disabled. 
    Check the Device manager for any "!" in yellow next to anything in the audio dept. (windows control panel/system/hardware...yadda yadda....)  If the onboard audio is turned 'on' and windows is seeing it? You'll have a heading for AC '97 listed, and also under sound effects options in the control panel it should be listed.  If it's listed as working 'ok'?  I seem to remember a set of jumpers on the motherboard for audio output.  In the manual it's listing as follows:
    "If you don't want to connect the front audio header, pins 5&6, 9&10 have to be jumpered in order to have signal output directed to the rear audio ports.  Otherwise the line-out connector on the back panel will not function"  That's out of my manual regarding JAUD1 connector.  And I have the Neo4 K8N board.
    Best of luck!
    S-

  • Nforce 4 ultra k8n neo4 platinum need info

    hi people. i need some help
    im about to purchase a new mobo with nforce 4 ultra and i like msi k8n neo4 platinum (nforce 4 ultra + dual lan gigabit, 8 sata ports (4 nvidia) etc. i didn't whant sli by now so... 
    1° do you recommend this mobo?
    2° i see lots of bios upgrade in the support page of this mobo, if there something i didn't like is to flash a bios several times, so i must upgrade bios at once with the latest or i must do it one by one?
    3° am2 or 939?
    4° there some bios or something upgrade to support raid 5?
    5° y want to build this:
    amd athlon 64 3000+
    nforce 4 ultra msi k8n neo 4
    1 gb ddr memory (kingston
    msi nx7900gt256e or msi nx7600gt256e (depending of my pocket)
    did you like it
    ok
    im actually have
    duron 1600 applebred
    768mb ddr 400 pc3200 memory
    mobo nforce 2 ultra 400 msik7n2delta ilsr
    msi geforce fx5700vtd128
    thanks guys you are allways helpfull
    bye

    ivangelion, I have this board and it's a good choice.
    So to answer your questions:
    1. yes
    2. No you can upgrade to newest right away [ver1.D]
    3. 939. Most people/ forums are saying to wait awhile on the AM2
    4. The Silicone Image RAID supports RAID 5 as it is now on this board.
    5. That's a good starting point and you can amp it up from there as $$$ permits.
    Good Luck and let us know if you need help along the way.

  • SATA drives not being detected - K8N Neo4 Platinum

    I have the same problem, different PSU!
    msi k8n neo4 platinum pcb 1.0
    3000 64 939
    corsair 1gb dual channel ddr400
    nvidia 8800gts
    antec truepower 550 (19a @ 12v)
    used to run 2 ide maxtor 120 and 80
    added in a sata dvd writer, worked for 6 months
    added in a sata 1TB seagate 7200, sata fails a majority of the time
    same symptons now persist as in original post.
    :< either bios detects both sata drives, neither, or it crashes. this happens respectively rarely, uncommon, and most common
    what ive tried:
    updated all mainboard, bios, video drivers to the most up to date (i had to in order for bios to detect the full size of the 1TB)
    no ide, same problems
    only 1 sata, with and without ide, same problems
    the sata only works after a long period of time (or randomly), that i dont use it
    (ive had both sata unplugged for 12 hours, booted up this morning with them and it detected, i selected safe mode boot, after making it through a majority of the load, it crashed)
    testing a new psu in a day or so, much more powerful. ill give you all my results.

    The cables aren't overly bent?
    "...worked for 6 months"
    "...fails a majority of the time"
    Not very relevant, but since i found the FAQs, and there are no less than four FAQs for hard disks http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodfaq&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=165#menu :
    "Silicon Image Si3114R Raid bios doesn't have JBOD setting in it, why?
    In the new Silicon Image BIOS, JBOD already been renamed as "Concatenation".
    If you want to use single SATA HDD or when tou want use each SATA HDD as IDE mode, you can choose "Concatenation" function in Silicon RAID BIOS."
    "I am using a SATA hard drive with NCQ technology on this motherboard and I am experiencing problems. How do I fix it?
    The issue depends on the Southbridge chipset. Nvidia is currently working on an updated nForce driver to address the issues with certain hard drives.
    You could contact Nvidia support to ask for the new driver if there is one. If there is not any new driver to solve the issue, please disable NCQ on your system." /My fattening. /

  • K8N Neo4 Platinum questions

    K8N Neo4 Platinum
    WinXP SP-2
    SATA RAID setup
    When I installed my HDDs I mistakenly connected them to the SiL3114 SATA ports (SATA 5, 6, 7). I did not realize until later that the NVidia SATA ports offer better data transfer rates. I was initially upset but, based on posts in this forum, I did some research and found that the Seagate Barracuda drives I am using only support a data transfer rate of 150 mbps anyway. Now I am thinking that the way I set it up is a good thing - if I need to add HDD in the future I can add drives that support 300 mbps transfer rates. Is this correct?
    Device Drivers
    Device Manager indicates that I have driver errors associated with the "NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator", "PCI Memory Controller", and "SM Bus Controller" devices. I haven't had any problems with my system or any of the programs I have run to date - but the unresolved device drivers make me nervous - like they are system problems waiting to be encountered.
    Again, based on posts in this forum, I attempted to reload the drivers using the CD that came with the motherboard - but that didn't resolved the problem. I also attempted to 'reinstall' the device drivers from within Device Manager. It found the drivers but displayed an "access denied" message when it attempted to install them (the account I'm using does have administrator access). Any ideas? Is it possible that I have something set incorrectly in the BIOS?
    Thanks!

    imjb,
    If you have a water pump that puts out 66gph, and you use a hose that has a max of 33gph, you will move 33gph of water. You take a hose the has a max of 66gph, you will move 66gph of water. You take a hose the has a max of 100gph, you will move 66gph of water. You take a hose the has a max of 133gph, you will move 66gph of water. You take a hose the has a max of 150gph, you will move 66gph of water. You take a hose the has a max of 300gph, you will move 66gph of water.
    You get my drift?
    Take Care,
    Richard

  • Problem witn MSI K8N Neo4 platinum

    Hello!
    Got a strange problem.
    gonna give u my specs for the pc first:
    AMD64 3000+
    2*512mb PC3200 Kingston Hyper X
    MSI K8N Neo4 platinum
    His x800xl
    Seagate 80gb,IDE 3,5 ( currently Linux is installed on it)
    Here is the problem.
    I've just put all the parts together. Turned on the PC, got into boot screen, pressed delete to enter bios, no problem here, change the first boot to: Cd rom. Beacuse I'm gonna install Xp on it. save and exit the bios, the post(?) screen shows up with sume info, and at the button i can choose: Press F1 to continue or press DEL to enter setup.
    I press contunie and a blac screen show up and it said hit ctrl+s to enter raid meny, or something like that, press just enter, the a long list is been gone threw, ends up with : press any key to boot from cd,
    i press a Key and the xp cd just start and gets to: controlling the hardware of the computer ( first thing the swedish install cd does). And after seeing that line and three dotes after it for about 5 seconds, it just dissapear and the screen remains black, the cd rom is loading, but no more...
    anyone of u know what the problem is?
    Best regards
    // Swedo

    Seems like i am having the same problem on My K8N Neo4 Platinum, actually i built 3 identical rigs.  And i am having the same problem as above.  What i did to get around the problem was connect My Sata II hard drives to the orange slots on the mobo, and run them as raid0 and everything works, i dont know why i can run it on the purple slots without raid.

  • New K8N Neo4 Platinum build. Help, Nforce4 driver question?

    I am building a new K8N Neo4 Platinum system (see my sig).  I wanted to get the latest Nforce4 drivers, before installing XP.  I noticed on the Nvidia website a 5.10 Unified Driver download and a 6.66 AMD download.  Which should I use?  It looks like the versions in the 5.10 Unified Driver are actually older than what is in the Nforce4 drivers, from the MSI site.  If I use the 6.66 AMD drivers, should I make a SATA Raid Driver floppy, from them, to use during the XP install?  Any advice is appreciated.

    just do it from a floppy, LiveUpdate is crap
    and yes you HAVE to F6  these drivers on Windows install  if you plan on using SATA or you cannot boot from SATA
    unfied drivers are NOT FOR NFORCE 4.  You MUST use the NF4-specific 6.66 (or earlier)
    Unified Drivers are specific only to nForce 1/2/3.  AMD and Intel each have specific and unique driver sets for nForce4.
    download 6.66, extract and explore the folder
    go to IDE->Win2K->SATARAID and copy everything in this folder to a floppy
    make two floppies just to be safe
    you cannot use CD, you MUST use floppy because Windows will look in a: only
    as soon as Windows install starts you will see a screen that says "Press F6 to install third party SCSI or RAID driver"... hit F6 and insert floppy and after a few minutes, you will get a screen that says"
    "Press S to install other drivers..."
    press S
    next screen comes up, first select and install "nVidida Raid class driver (required)" -->hit enter
    back to "Press S to install other drivers..." screen
    press S again
    screen wil come up again, this time choose and install ""nVidia nforce storage controller(required)"
    one more time back to "press S to instal other drivers...", this time just hit ENTER
    now you're good to go

  • HELP! Installation of SATA HD on K8N NEO4 PLATINUM

    I finally put together my system
    AMD Athlon 64 3200+ venice
    MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum
    1 GB DDR400 RAM
    Etc....
    now my problem has to do with the SATA hard drive i bought for it, a maxtor diamondmax10 6L080MO, my system will boot and say "invalid drive" and will tell me to go into the RAID Tool.
    I really dont know much about sata interface setup so i would appreciate a step by step walkthru on it, right know im forced to use my old reliable maxtor 20gb,
    is it possible to have both the 20gb ata hd and the new 80gb sata drives? how do i install my sata drive?
    i was planning on using the small one for software installation and the big sata one for storage
    everything on my system is running well so far, except for the SATA drive problem,
    PLEASE HELP!

    Ceckardt,
    You should not need to install any special drives with single SATA that not in a RIAD Array, if you have Windows XP SP2 installed, if you do not have SP2 installed, upgraded to it before doing anything I instruct you to do below.
    If you using just SATA hard drive, all you should have to do is plug it in to one of the nVidia SATA connectors on the motherboard and if you have Windows up and running on the old 20GB Maxtor.  Start windows and open the Disk Management Window.  You get there by right clicking My Computer, menu will pop-up and left click “Manage” a Window will open and on the list on the left side of the call Computer Management, left click “Disk Management”.  On the right of the Window you should see all of you drive of you system including you new 80GB SATA drive.  You will have to Partition and format it, then it will show in My Computer as logical drive, the drive letter you will have assigned in the Disk Management.
    If you need instructions, other the Windows Help to partition and format your drive under the disk manager, just reply or if the drive is list in the disk manage window and you cannot figure out how to partition and format the just start a new post asking for help using the Disk Manager.
    If the drive is not listed in the Disk management Window, reply in the post for more help.
    Good luck,
    Roger

  • K8N NEO4 PLATINUM SLI BETA BIOS

    WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT? DO I HAVE TO INSTALL IT FROM FLOPPY?

    which one is the BETA BIOS? none of them seem to be a BETA?
    Model Version Size Platform BIOS BIOS Date Counter
    K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100) v. 3.6 353 kb AMD Award BIOS 7/22/2005 
    1. This is Award BIOS release.
    2. This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
    - Update CPU ID for E6.
    3. 2005/07/22
    Model Version Size Platform BIOS BIOS Date Counter
    K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100) v. 3.3 358 kb AMD Award BIOS 5/10/2005 
    1. This is Award BIOS release.
    2. This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
    - Update SiI3132 Raid ROM version to 7.2.18.
    - Update NVRAID version to 5.27.
    - Update NVPXE version to 2.12.
    - Update NVMM version to 4.94.
    - Update CPU ID for Sempron E3 2000MHz/59W.
    - Update CPU ID for Sempron D0 1800Mhz/59W.
    - Support K8 Dual Core CPU.
    3. 2005/05/10
    Model Version Size Platform BIOS BIOS Date Counter
    K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100) v. 3.2 358 kb AMD Award BIOS 3/30/2005 
    1. This is Award BIOS release.
    2. This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
    - Update SiI3132 RAID ROM version to 7.1.05.
    - Update CPU Microcode for Sempron D0 2000MHz CPU.
    3. 2005/03/30
    Model Version Size Platform BIOS BIOS Date Counter
    K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100) v. 3.1 359 kb AMD Award BIOS 2/21/2005 
    1. This is Award BIOS release.
    2. This BIOS fixes the following problem(s) of the previous version:
    - Updates NVPXE version to 2.03.0469.
    - Updates CBROM version to 1.47. 
    Model Version Size Platform BIOS BIOS Date Counter
    K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100) v. 3.0 359 kb AMD Award BIOS 12/31/2004 
    1. This is Award BIOS release.

Maybe you are looking for