K8T FIS2R Raid Problems

Okay I got my RAID_0 stiping service up on my AMD K8 build using the Promise SATA RAID Controller (FastTrak 378) on the MSI K8T FIS2R. Okay so I get XP working and installed XP.
So I install the drivers for it already and when I do HDD Tach, I get uber low scores and a high CPU Utilization score. In Sandra I get like 1 HDD scores. Now how do I fix this mess up?
Something tells me I should have used the damn VIA SATA Raid Controller instead to have avioded this mess.
Can you help me folks? Thanks
Update: From looking at the VIA SATA bios/setup, it doesnt look like the VIA can do Raid 0...Am I right?
The Promise does have a separate BIOS and it's really easy to use. It has a AUTO service and has basically two options. Performance: Which is Raid 0 and Security: Which is Raid 1. So I choose Performance and then a box appears. That box says Create and Iniatize OR Create Only. So far I have chose both and they dont make a difference. After that, its pretty much done asking me to reboot. HOWEVER...In the manual...It says Step 4: You should FDSIK like it were a new drive.
What is FDISK? Did you have to FDISK? I thought Fdisk is in the MS DOS Disk and lets you partition the drive or something. Anyways, all I did was create the partition and then right after install Windows XP WITH the Raid controller drivers selected in XP setup...
Any ideas?

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Originally posted by pxmedia
I had a similar experience. Tried my two SATA drives in RAID0 on the Promise controller as boot drive and the scores were very low (similar to one IDE drive) and the CPU utilization was up around 30%.
I moved it over the the VIA as a RAID0 and everything looked and ran great. CPU ultilization around 8-12%.
I hooked up two more SATA drives on the Promise controller (not as boot) in RAID0 and low and behold, the scores were great! What is going on here?
You will get even better scores using 10k rpm sata drives WITHOUT raid. Your boot drive is the only one which is ALWAYS live; therefore CPU utilisation from a second virtual drive will not effect benchmarks unless it is being accessed.
As I've said many times, software raid is a Bad Thing.
err!
jak.

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I didn't find the sig things which i find odd but anyway...
here my rig
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Jkmet,
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Is there any specific option I should look for in the bios to change that? I assume I might have made a wrong configuration at some point.
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Cheers

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Concerning the RAID problem I cannot access the SB600 onboard Fastbuild utility as long as the PCI sata controller is plugged in --> I get the "Not enough space to load PCI rom" error message. Without the PCI card I can access Fastbuild and define arrays without a glitch.
This is common problem with boot-roms, the BIOS can't handle multiple of them, only 1 if you use raid.
So disable the PCI-Sata bootrom or disable the RAID.
This is a BIOS limitation, nothing you can do about it.
AHCI is a type of RAID also.
What you see is normal, the BIOS doesn't have enough hooks to put a Boot-rom in, and exspecially the RAID MUST need one to function.
Other solution is to use Windows software raid and put the RAID controller in normal-mode.
You won't notice the speed difference anyway as the onboard is a soft-raid as well, but then done in the BIOS, however in both cases it's the CPU that must handle them.

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HI! i'm the one wih the raid problem on a k8n neo2....
That's what a i Did.. i unpacked the exe and copy the files in a floppy... question is: if i do that, windows instaler askme for some files that aren't in the .exe, anway it reconices the raid and everithing goes fine until the first BOOT on windos... it shows a blue screen, butremoves it so fast that i cant read it or pause the system. But i know it's a raid problem because if i install it on a ide disk it works.
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new to the forum, have searched but nothing like my problem exist.
I have a K8T Neo FIS2R M/B and trying to get a single SATA HDD working for my secondary drive. primary is a IDE which works well and I want to leave it.
I have plugged in the SATA HDD into the SER 1 port ( Promise 237 ?) anyhow the bois at startup or post recognises the drive, but then says soemthing like you have set up raid before F1 for setup F2 to continue to boot.
I have pressed both f1 and F2 at various time, but it appears that it want to turn the single drive into a RAID system, which is not possible with one drive !!....
Anyhow windows XP then boots up and loads a RAID driver and also the promise RAID drivers. the real problem is that XP sits and waits for the raid which never comes and during startup on XP. it is extremely slow.
Does anyone have any ideas. I am not that computer techy as you can see by the description, but it appears that I cannot get into the RAID bios to turn it off.. I have zapped the bios to try and reset it. basically i am loosing my hair ove this.
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Sorry for the slow reply, retrieving the box from the bottom of the swimming pool !!!
I set it to SATA as you have indicated Hans, I did check that setting. Thankyou for checking.
Spray, I have tried the P20378 setting as well. You indicate that you need to press F6 when installing the OS. I have WinXP running already on an IDE master and am trying to set the SATA up as a secondary disk drive.
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BIOS and all drivers were/are up-to-date. All HD`s work OK in a "no raid" situation, on both controllers.
I have searched this forum, but didn`t find similar problem. If you have some ideas/suggestions/solutions, you will be a hero, for saving a one young man`s life
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Belgrade, Serbia

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Originally posted by Tiresmoke
Promise ATA raid can only work though the Promise ports which in the case of ATA or Ultra ATA drives would be IDE3 port. Then you must have Promise Raid turn on in the Pheriferals menu in Bios as well as set up under the Promise Raid section that will come up directly after post.
You will need to read the Promise Ademdum manual that came along with the regular user manual for setup details.
Thanks for trying to help, but I have done that all. I can create a raid array with ATA drives only on Promise...

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http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=565
VIA VT8237(R) SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)
I followed the disk directions having already done it before. When I tried to install with my new drivers, I got this error.
"File\I386\NT5\viamraid.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 2108 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c."
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AMIBIOS A6702VMS V2.2 030405
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Quote from: sombernote on 11-July-08, 09:15:36
Thank you so much for your help.
I tried your two versions of your drivers, "VIA PIDE&SATA RAID.rar" "Promise 20378 S-ATA RAID.rar" neither of them worked well (I selected the "VIA RAID Controller(Windows XP"). I received a slightly different version of the last error "File\I386\NT5\viamraid.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 2108 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c."
The (4096) was a different number.
I had used 4 different (yet old) disks, trying to get it to work. None of them did so until i tried it once more. This last time worked, it saw and used the drivers. I was able to get into the disk selection screen, and set to format the disk. As it started formatting (Quick), windows said that there was something wrong with the "Disk or CD". It then asked for me to install the SATA combo drivers. I let it detect the drivers I was using, and it kept saying something was wrong. I tried it 3 more times, and the last time it held and copied the files from the CD, to start windows.
It is obvious to me that I have either a bad disk, CD, Disk drive, or CD drive. This is quite possiblly my last format before I make my new computer. Thank you very much for your help. I would have had to start my voodoo magic tricks to get it to work.
Crappy floppy cause that
Happend to me many times as well, when you receive the error take out diskette and re-insert it, then load drivers again until works.
Of course simple solution is just replace the floppy drive to avoid "voodoo magic tricks"
Or best solution do a slipstream XP installation and integrate the drivers which you need in XP installation.
>>> Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD<<<
>>> Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2<<<
"Thank you very much for your help. I would have had to start my voodoo magic tricks to get it to work."
You are done well

K8t neo fis2r framerate problem

i have an athlon 64 3400+, msi k8t neo fis2r, 120 gb seagate barracuda, corsair xms series pc3200 512MB ram(with black heatspreader), gainward geforce fx5700ultra, 500w allied power supply. I'm having terrible framerate problems when i'm playing games. It doesn't matter what game i'm playing...i've been playing unreal tournament as a tester game. At first I thought i had a bad video card so i sent that back. I'm still having the same problem. I've flashed my bios, sp1a, all the newest chipset drivers, set my RAM timings, newest video card drivers (53.03), everything. I don't know what is going on. My games run at the same frame rate at 640x480 then when they are on 1024x768. When I turn vsynch on, i'd say about half or maybe more of the time i'd have bad frame rate, when I turn vsynch off my games play reallllly fast. It seems to jump in and out of normal rate of play. I was talking to my friend and he thought it was the timing chip on my motherboard. I'm on my last straw and i'm about to send this board back for a replacement.

I dont know what you mean by am i letting windows install it...but i'm using live update to download it then it automatically installs itself. I'll try that uninstall the agp thing on the 4 in 1 but I doubt it'll do anything seeing as how i've probably reinstalled windows 4 or 5 times and installed the 4 in 1 drivers each time to no avail. I really think my mobo's agp slot is bad or something on my mobo is bad. I was using a 300W psu for awhile, that might have done something to the board.

K8t fis2r problems

the funniest thing happened to me. I installed powerstrip by recommendation from a buddy (for those of you that don't know, it allows you to edit video settings easily, and apply them to certain programs exclusively). when I started up the program and noted what it said my agp aperture size was, it said 128. this is a problem, seeing as how I have an nvidia geforce 6800GT in my system. I restarted, entered bios, and corrected the problem (set agp aperture to 256). when I tried to restart the computer, I got nothing. no POST whatsoever. I do have an LED message on the back: the upper-left hand is green, the others are red. my motherboard is a k8n neo-fis2r, I have a gig of RAM (never had probs with it before), an athlon 3000+, and a thermaltake purepower 420 watt psu. anyone know what is the problem and what I can do about it?

You should be running 1.9 Bios or newer with that rig. However I suspect that it is a quirk that a few other guys have had with running 256 Apature. I was able to do so but I have the bigger card and the cards that have been reported giving the same with the 256 apature have been mostly the GT's. Pull the power, reset the Bios and back off the apature a tad and see if it won't come back to like. If it does make sure your running the latest Bios and do click on bios setup Defaults when you get it back up again. Do not use the High Performance Defaults as that can give you some extra problems due to it overclocking some of the setting a tad and does not always work well for folks.

MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R: RAM problems

I have the motherboard K8T NEO-FIS2R with AMIBIOS 2VMS V2.0 010505.
I tried these DDR-RAM:
DDR-RAM 512MB PC400 CL3 Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512
DDR-RAM 512MB PC400 CL3 Samsung
but the motherboard recognizes only 256 MB for both. The RAM are good: I tried them in an other pc!
Now I have installed an A-DATA ram 256 MB and the motherboard recognizes 256 MB!
Do you think that my motherboard is defective?
Thank you in advance.
P.S. I'm sorry for my bad english.

No the memory controller is onboard the CPU so in any case the MB is not defective. However the CPU revision may hold you back on some RAM especially if you mix make and model RAM on the same channel. A socket 754 CPU only has one channel so all RAM must be matched to work properly.
If those Sticks can only be seen as a wrong value when used by themselves it is likely that either they have errors or the timings in Bios are improperly set to azllow them to work. In this case you can normally find out what is going on by running memtest86. If you get errors on test 5 or 7 then you have timgs timed improperly and any other errors would show bad RAM.
Another case is not having enough power for everything to work properly together. Usually this happens when you don't have enough 12v amps for these newer rigs.
Post complete specs and test results and maybe we can help you further.

MSI K8T Neo FIS2R - Memory problem???

I have bought myself a second stick of ram for my computer, being careful to make sure it was exactly the same brand and model.
In spite of this I now get random bluescreen errors of varying types, the first was PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and the latest:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
STOP: 0x00000050 (0xC5AD0D7C, 0x0000000, 0x8050298A, 0x0000000)
Is the new ram incompatible?? this makes no sense though..... ???

I have tried switching ram sticks around but no luck there
Got three BSOD's yesterday, no specific error just STOP: blah blah blah when trying to burn a CD and then after that just when using IE.....
........and then I played call of duty 2 for 3hours without a single problem
Today when trying to run FS2 open I got two IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL errors (with no driver mentioned)
Anyway, I have been doing some research on socket 754 athlon 64's, and I found some interesting info from AMD:
Where MSI says that the board supports that config at DDR400. so the board supports it but the CPU doesn't! what is the point of that??
I tried running at DDR333 but the CPU stuck at 1.8GHZ (150FSBx12) according to everest
Is it possible at all to run two sticks of Double sided ram at DDR400? surely someone has done it and has it working....
Another thing, after the first IRQL error my computer hung at detecting the CD-RW drive and I had to turn off and on again ???

MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R RAID SETUP PROBLEM

hie everyone
with my hard disk now , how can i setup raid ?
detail plsee

Your signature shows 3 drives, all different sizes. If you are going to raid a pair, they should preferrably be the same size and preferrably the same type. If you raid a mismatched pair then your new raid "drive" will the the size of the smallest, losing the remaining space on the largest.

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