K9A2 Platinum Raid problem

Hi i have 4 days trying to install my new system. And the mobo do not want to recognize the drives in sata 5 and 6, those controlled by promise.
My system specs:
Phenom 9600
MSI k9a2 platinum
6 samsung hard drives SATAII 7200 rpm
8gb ram Corsair Dominator 1066 MHZ
2 x Diamond ati HD3870 512 mb GDDR4
Thermal take toughpower 850W PSU
I want to run:
RAID 1+0 With 4 drives of 320GB each using sb600 controller
and two 320 GB single drives, NON RAID on the promise controller.
How can i run this config on my mobo? it is possible? i need detailed bios settings for this please.
Second alternative config:
Raid 0 on sb600 using 4 disk
Raid 1 on promise using 2 disks
I have 6 drives in total and want to use them all.
Right now if I enable additional raid config on BIOS my sb600 controller only detect disks on the 1 and 3 ports, but doesnt see the 2 and 4 ports. Also i cant see the 5 and 6 ports anywhere in the bios or in the ctrl-f raid utility.
My bios version is 1.3
Any help?

hi, you could use the promise controller for your raid array using the rear esata connectors (with a esata to sata cable) and in side ports 5-6, use the sb600 not in raid for the other drives, like bas was saying each controller has it own bios, so what that means is if promise raid is on (sb600 off) the drives would show up in the promise raid setup and the other way around (drives in the SB600 RAID set up) and also if both raid controllers are off the drives show up in the main board bios. once i did have both controllers run through their setup at the same time but i got "some memory ran out of room" message after post,..
anyway so you should be able to do what you want, but use the promise for raid and sb600 for not, that way only one raid controller is on.

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K9A2 Platinum Raid 1 Setup / Installation Problem

I'm trying to setup a raid 1 with my new K9A2 Platinum board. I would prefer to use the promise controller but have had no luck with the SB600 or Promise.
My PC:
2 gig GSkill Ram 800mhz
2 Identical Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drives
750w Corsair psu
AMD 5200+
Vista Home Premium
GeForce 8600GT
The first hard drive has everything loaded on it including all my business and personal data, so I don't want to reformat and start over with that drive. I just want to add another drive as a mirror for redundancy purposes.
Symptoms:
I can't select my RAID configuration in the Fastbuild Utility. It will show me the current drives as connected, Model, Capabilities, Capacity, RAID mode (showing JBOD), and Status (Functional). The bottom of the screen doesn't give me any options, it just says "Any Key to Continue" at which point it brings me back to the main page of Fastbuild. I have a pictures of the relevent screens, just haven't figured out how to post them here.
What I've already tried:
Enabled the SB600 as Raid while drives plugged into SATA1 and SATA2. (once each with Onboard controller Enabled and Disabled)
Enabled the OnBoard Controller while drives plugged into SATA5 and SATA6 (once each with SB600 set as RAID, set as IDE, and Disabled)
So how do I select RAID 1 as my configuration?
TIA.

Steps to RAID 1:
1) Backup your data to a third drive.
2) Connect both Seagate drives to the Promise controller.
3) Enable the Promise controller in your BIOS.
4) Enter the FastBuild utility using CTRL + F.
5) Select 'Define Array' (I believe it's option # 3).
6) Define parameters and asign drives to the array
7) Save and reboot.
The RAID 1 array is now active. If you plan to install an OS on it, you will need to load a driver during setup. For WinXP you will need to use a floppy and F6, for Vista you can use other media as well (CD-ROM, USB stick, etc.).
If you plan to run your OS from a third drive, you will just need to boot to the OS and access the Drive Manager. Create a partition on the RAID 1 array, the OS will format the array and it will prompt you to reboot when finished.
Regarding the external drive, it's best to use a hard drive of choice and an eSATA external enclosure. I use an ICY IB-351 BL Series for example, it has eSATA, Firewire and USB 2.0. I also have a Cooler Master X-Craft, same idea. It might come in handy to be able to swap drives...

K9A2 Platinum Boot Problems

Dose any one know why I cant' boot from the DVD drives that I have connected to The SATA ports 5&6, I can see the drive in the CMOS boot order and I chose the first DVD Drive (Port 5) as the first boot disk. Is it even Possible to boot from the Promise T3 Controller on the MB (K9A2 Platinum V1). I am using the other controller (sb600) for a RAID 0=1 Array. I ma trying to install windows 7 rc.
In order to install XP Pro I had to temp in an IDE CD/DVD drive on the MB IDE Connector

Maybe the DVD-device has a problem, as in not working all that well.
One troubleshooting step would be to try a different port, 5-6 is aimed at RAID it says on the home page:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332

K9A2 Platinum Raid 0 Setup

Setup:
K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9850 BE
4 GB GSkill 1066 4 x 1GB
2 WD caviar SATA HD (in RAID 0 - I think??)
LITEON BD Player
Rosewill 850W PSU
Sapphire 3870 HD x2 in Crossfire
I connected the 2 HDD to the 5&6 SATA ports, set them on Promise controller both to RAID 0 and reloaded Windows Vista 64 bit. I manually loaded the RAID driver during the Windows load from the MSI disk that came with MBO. Everything seems ok. Windows only sees a C drive, but on Device Manager sees both drives as a 1+0 RAID device in Raid 0 - this also shows up on Fast Build Utility as LD1 and 2 and both 1+0 RAID device RAID 0. Don't really notice any improvement in load times. Is the RAID setup correctly? Is there a way to improve the speed? When I run the Windows Vista performance test - HDD speed rating is only 5.7.
Thanks for any help

Why are you starting a scond topic about all this?
Please stick to the one you already started... this makes no sense at all.
I'm locking this one.
>> Here << is the other topic.

P45 Platinum Raid Problems

Hello Guys,
i have some problems with my MSI p45 Platinum. I have Random freeze when i configure 2 Raid on it.
Here my configuration:
MB: MSI p45 Platinum
CPU: Intel core 2 duo 8400
GPU: 8800 GTS 640mb
RAM: 6 gb Ram (2*2+1*2)
PSU: 850W Cooler Master
SO: Windows 7 Ultimate RTM
MAIN DISK: 3 * Hitachi Deskstar 250gb RAID-0
With this all work well, and now the problem ...
I added 3 * 500gb Hitachi Deskstar Disks
If i make a 3*500gb RAID-0, i have random hard freeze before 30 min after i start up PC
If i make a 3*500gb RAID-5, i have random hard freeze before 30 min after i start up PC
If i leave 3*500gb No Raid, all work well ...
I'm working on this problem from some months as you can see on my old topics... and finally i isolated the problem but, What is the problem?
Any incompatibility with >1tb disks on Win 7?
Motherboard problem with internal raid that not support more than 1 raid? ...
Thank you in advance for your help

Quote from: NovJoe on 12-April-10, 21:35:58
Do a check to see if there is any latest RAID driver for your board.
Hello,
I updated BIOS to 1.6 and i have latest driver (updated 3 days ago) for Chipset / and Intel Matrix Storage downloaded from MSI site ...
Can any malfunctions on any HardDisks or Intel Matrix Storage make only the 2nd raid-mode not work? Is there any test i can do for discover it?
Thanks for Help

K9A2 Platinum Driver problems

I just built the system in my sig yesterday and I am having MAJOR issues with the MSI drivers: Realtec HD Audio, MSI Live Update & MSI Dual Core Center.
Realtec: I install and just nothing...no audio no icon...nada. Tried uninstalling and using the newest form the MSI site, same thing.
Dual Core Center: Installs fine, but upon boot, it immediately has problems and closes....tried uninstall/reinstall/MSI site drivers....same issue.
Live update: Drivers on disc are fine, but checking for newer(which there are), I try getting it, error occurs during install(5 times already) and I'm left with nada.
Love the board so far but these drivers ......that's another story.....any assistance is GREATLY APPRECIATED

"Dual Core Center: Installs fine, but upon boot, it immediately has problems and closes....tried uninstall/reinstall/MSI site drivers....same issue."
Do not use it..
"Live update: Drivers on disc are fine, but checking for newer(which there are), I try getting it, error occurs during install(5 times already) and I'm left with nada."
Do not use it too, you can find drivers which you need here: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332
"Realtec: I install and just nothing...no audio no icon...nada. Tried uninstalling and using the newest form the MSI site, same thing."
What OS you are running? If XP follow here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=113078.msg846427#msg846427

P965 Platinum Raid problem

I just got my board installed. I am only using the JMicron for a dvd drive. I have my hard drives on the intel controller. I set everything up for raid 0 config. I pressed CTL + I and created a raid and it says the raid status is normal and it is bootable. I start to install Windows XP with SP2 slipstreamed and press F6. I put in the floppy that I created for the raid driver and I select the IHCR8. It starts to load the drivers and then it gives an error reading iastor.sys. I have tried 3 different floppies so I know it isn't due to a bad disc. I decided to slipstream the driver. Now I am using Windows XP with SP2 and the raid drivers slipstreamed. It starts the setup and then gives me an error accessing iastor.sys with a differen error code each time. How can I get windows installed to this raid?

I am very glad I found this solution, but extremely pissed that I had to go through all this. This is not my first system, I've built dozens, and this isn't even my first RAID system. I've never had more than a hiccup. This took days to figure out. Never in my wildest dreams did I think building a slipstreamed copy of windows would be necessary to install the OS. Thanks for whoever figured this out and went through this trouble, but someone, MSI/Intel/MS should be held accountable.
By the way, if I have the Onboard RAID set to IDE for my DVD drive, does it even matter if I install the jmicron driver or not? I did and it worked, but wonder if I should slipstream that one on there too so I don't need a floppy.

MOVED: Setting up K9A2 Platinum Raid

This topic has been moved to AMD64 ATI boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=157529.0

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I'm locking this one.
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K9A2 Platinum Sata Raid Problems

I could not get my 2 500 gb seagate 7200.11 drives to work on the sb600 raid controller, in raid 1 (set to raid mode in bios). I'd set it up and it would remain functional until I formatted it and put stuff on it. Then when I restarted, it says critical and can't locate the second drive, but it shows up in the list of definable drives. My older 200 gb seagates 7200.9 in the same setup do not have this problem. I finally got my 500s working by hooking them up to the promise controller instead. (Although no longer a current problem, I wouldn't mind knowing what would cause this for future occasions.)
My new problem is, I had to unhook all but the drive I wanted to install Windows XP on (A separate 120 JBOD configured drive) so I could get it to be C:/. This all went fine. However when I hooked up the 500s again, Windows XP would not boot, the screen just stayed black, with them not hooked up, it boots just fine, with the 200s as well. When running the Windows XP setup again, the 500s appear as C:/ instead of the 120 in the disk select screen of the install. It's like the 500s took over the drive letter when they are hooked up and thus can't load. Is there some way to stop it from doing this or am I completely off on this.
My computer spec is:
K9A2 Platinum
AMD X2 6000
2*2gb OCZ PC6400
ATI Radeon 3870
700 Watt OCZ PSU
Update: Installing XP ignoring the fact its not C: fails. It copies all the files onto it, then after restarting I get a black screen.
Another Update: On a whim I tried disabling the SB600 raid and set it to AHCI instead as I read that other people were having problems with it and it all works perfectly now. It's too bad this doesn't work, but I'll just put the 200s back in my old computer instead.

I'm having the exact same problem you did. Same Mobo. Except I started off with Promise RAID 1 because when I tried using SB600 RAID, my SATA DVD drive would not function in Vista Ultimate x64. So I had my Raid 1 configured on Promise T3 with BIOS 2.8.1030.0021 using 2 320GB drives. One of them Seagate, one WD, both 3GB/s transfer, only difference was that Seagate has 16MB cache, while the WD has 8MB. But both drives worked fine in the array for some time, and then after doing some updates from Windows Updates now the Raid config shows that encountered a critial status, "A disk member of an array has failed or is not responding", "Problem is detected with Array : 1". And when I go to the see the Array status it shows the Seagate drive on ID channel 1, but for the 2nd drive it shows questions marks all the way through the item line. I checked the drive, it seems fine. And even when I go to define a second Array, it shows the WD available on channel ID 3. So it definitely see both drives, but how do I re-add that WD drive that it doesn't see to my earlier defined array without loosing data on my Seagate drive?

PROBLEM RAID K9A2 Platinum

hello,
I have a problem for the raid on my msi k9a2 platinum.
currently, I have 2 SATA hard drives, on first (samsung 750 GB) I have vista ultimate 64 installed, and on second (maxtor 200 GB) I have games. in the bios I see "Raid: Ide" and when I met "Raid: Raid" blue screen at startup vista.
thanks
phenom 9600 Be
MSI K9A2 platinum
Sapphyre 3870 hd toxic
2 x 1g 1066 Mhz Kingmax
Samsung 750 Go & maxtor 200 Go
2 x HPw2207h

Why are you trying to run a single drive in RAID mode? Sounds logical that Windows would Blue Screen, you have no RAID array. Just keep it running at IDE mode, should be fine...
PCI latency should be set as low as possible, though I doubt you will notice any difference between the 64 and 32 settings. This setting mostly applies when you have add in cards that need to hold the PCI bus longer than default...

Problem RAID K9A2 platinum /vista X64

hello all,
i have install driver promise raid for K9A2 platinum on vista x64 but when i reboot vista say me raid not install... my bios is 1.4
please help me

hello and thanks,
i installing drivers raid which I downloaded from the site msi, I install and when I reboot vista x64, I have a window that tells me that vista has detected new hardware and if I want him to research driver on the web but they did not find.
if I go in the device manager I see raid controller with an exclamation point ( dont install).
my config:
Amd phenom 9600 BE
MSI K9A2 platinum ( chipset amd 790fx )
HDD samsung Sata 750 Go 32mo
Sapphyre toxic HD3870
2x1Go kingmax 1066
alim 450w

Question about Raid set up with (SB600) K9A2 Platinum V 1.0

I am having trouble setting up my raid. I am using Windows XP Pro and go through the usual set up procedures using F6 command then installing the drivers etc. Once I get everything up and running installed on Raid 0 the computer works very well for a few days. Then later BSOD. The first was a 0000007b stop error, then I got the system back up again only to have it a few days then another BSOD 00000024 stop error. This time I was not able to bring it back. I thought my problem was linked to a RAM issue as I was using OCZ PC2 6400 DDR2 OCZ2G8008GQ (2X2GB). The reason I thought this was when I went to the motherboard site for approved ram, this ram was not there, then on OCZ site it was also not tested, then I went to newegg and used thier motherboard ram compatability screener and it did not show up either. So I bought the Giel ram and am now trying to set it back up again though I could not get it back still. So I finally just reformatted the drives (using another computer and a hard drive enclosure)and am getting ready to reinstall everything. I want to make sure I am using the right SB600 drivers for my application. I should be selecting AHCI X86 or x64. This does pertain to the operating system (I am using Win XP 32 Bit) or the processor (I am using the Kuma Athlon X2 7750 2.7Ghz)
I believe I should be selecting the x86 drivers when installing windows. Am I right? I just want to make sure I do not screw anything up so as to bring on the horrible BSODs again. I realize this could be some driver issue as well that could have caused this. I did everything I could to make sure it was not the hard drives.
The last question I have is: In order to ensure proper operation of the dual channel ram, (I have read the book, still confused a bit), I must install the ram with one stick in the first slot nearest the CPU and the other in the first slot of the opposite color? In this case Green/Orange slots.
Mainboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum 790FX
CPU: Athlon X2 Kuma 7750 AM2+ 2.7Ghz Processor
CPU-Cooler: Factory Supplied
RAM: 4GB (2X2GB) G Skill F2-8500CL5D-4GBPI DDR2-1066 Dual Channel
GPU: AMD790FX
VIDEO: PowerColor HD4830 512MB GDDR3
HDD: 2 Velociraptor 150 10000 rpm drives WD1500HLFS
DVD: ASUS DRW-22B1LT SATA Drive
Floppy: YES
Power Supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready
OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 (Updated to SP3)

I was just trying to obtain the fastest load times/install times. When the machine was first running it was very quick with no cpu temps running beyond 34C, no abnormal performance. This is my wifes computer though. Things began to go astray after she updated through windows update to SP3. I am now using a slipstreamed CD with SP3 already on it. She said she was clicking on the internet explorer "E" icon and it just shut off. THen when it rebooted (it was still set that way in windows recovery) it started loading windows then BSOD 0000007b error. I fixed it by finally getting into windows recovery and running fixboot, then fixmbr, then chkdsk /r /f. It started working fine again. Then later maybe two days later it happend again this time wihtout the restarting. She was working on something else this time and it shutdown again. This time when it tried ot reload windows I was getting the ntfs.sys issue with a 00000024 stop error. I could not do the same magic with windows recovery any longer. When I tried it indicated it repaired the boot, the mbr, but when I tried to run the chkdsk, it gave me disk read errors, such as "this disk has unrecoverable errors". I used Western Digital test programs on the drives by removing them and installing them into an enclosure and taking them to a good computer. One drive I could see in windows and it reflected 140G/B, the other would pick up but not in my computer. It also showed the drive as having the entire quantity as the RAID together had of 298G/B versus the real size of the drive 150G/B. I just figured that was the drive that was set up as LD 1 in the RAID setup (prior to windows) and possible was the drive with he boot sector on it??? I could get another drive and include it into the array, but then just figure I will have to worry about 3 drives versus 2. She keeps improtant backup stuff on an external drive. I will tone down the ram to 800. Should I set the latency in Bios though to the 5-5-5-15? or just leave everything at auto like I hade done before? Though this ram is new and was not in the computer when this happened. I had replaced the other OCZ Gold stuff and put in the G Skill stuff I have now. I had previously stated Giel, but it is G Skill, sorry about that. I may just do what you say, guess sleep on it and decide whether to just install the drives with OS/Programs on one and data on the other.

K9A2 Platinum PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, im on BOARD #2, and #3 is on it's way....
ok, I purchased the first board on NewEGG thogether with a Phenom 9950BE, 4GB OCZ 2x2 DDR2 1066 5-5-5-15 @2.1v and Saphire ATI HD4850. well the first try was bad, the board would not recognize my 4 WD RAPTORS, the promise controller would not detect them, and the SB600 could only read 2 out of 4 and only if 2 where connnected and not the 4....
well, I send that board back, in the mean time I visited Fry's Electronics and purchased the board again, now this time is working so, so... I managed to install VISTA64 SP1 with all the patches, etc, and play few games, except i still have problems: I disabled the promise controller as i need to run 2 ARRAY's of RAID 0 (2 Raptors 740 each, one array for OS and one for GAMES) the problem is that I get random lockups, Blue Screens, etc. also when I choose to restart the computer or send it to SLEEP, as it is shutting down the HD make a weird sound that they never made before and if I restarted the SB600 raid bios would not detect the arrays, i physically have to power down, wait and restart, so the arrays are detected.
also I try to overclock the PC, the Phenom is able to run at 3ghz but it freezes some times immediately but others it would last few hours with gaming in between, i tried several voltages from 1.33v to 1.41v and some times get a BlueScreen that reads a processors error, one core did't respond on expected time... or something like that.
[bashing removed]
my spec's are:
AMD Phenom 9950 Black Edition B3
MSI K9A2 platinum 1.5 bios
Saphire HD4850
4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 5-5-5-15 @2.1v Dual CH.(2x2GB)
4x WD RAPTORS WD740 on RAID 0 (two ARRAYS)
PIONEER DVD-RW DL IDE
CoolerMaster STACKER case w/2 120mm fans and 1 80mm
Dual PS: CoolerMaster Real 450w PS & Ultra 400w PS

well, the design of the CoolerMaster STACKER case is for two Power supply's working in tandem, it has a connector that turns on both supply's at the same time, so I split the load as follows: all Motherboard plugs, 3 120mm fans, 1 80mm fan & Pioneer DVD drive; powered by thr CoolerMaster REAL 450w, it list power as follows: PEAK (60S) +3.3v@30A, +5v@35A, +12v1@18A, +12v2@16A, -12v@blank?, [email protected].
CONTINUOS: +3.3v@20A, +5v@25A, +12v1@12A, +12v2@10A, [email protected], [email protected]
as for the other power supply it powers the following: HD's (as of now 2; 1 WD Raptor and 1 Seagate 7200.9), 1 120mm fan and the ATI HD4850
I don't think Im starving the system of power...
im installing windows vista 64 (yeah, yeah, XP is more stable, but I had an ABIT A8N nforce4SLI, Athlon X2 3800 OC's, 2GB Patriot DDR, 2x Geforce 7800GT OC's on SLI and 4 HD's, and I never had any problems, and I had the CPU running on stock cooler and stock voltage. and I had VISTA 32, and 64 and never since I bought it ever give me problems, i could OC everything from CPU, memory, HT, PCI-e, etc.
why this board is so bad?
this is the current ERROR i have just now:
"A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval..."
technical info. ***STOP: 0X00000101 (0X0000000000000031, 0X0000000000000000, 0XFFFFF980012C6180, 0X0000000000000001)
I did enable promise controller and used the 2 HD on the ports controlled by it as JOBD each, the RAM is @ 1066mhz, voltage as recomended 2.1v and I did try to OC the processor just to try, since that is the purpose of buying the Black edition 9950 to 15x200 @ 3000mhz 1.41v, everything else is on Auto.
before I get SCHOOLED by other users, yes I do want to OC the proc. I have installed vista 64 w/o OC the proc and it runs ok, but i still had random BSOD here and there... but since this is proclaimed the best board for OC the Phenom and AMD even pushes the SPIDER plataform and makes it easy to OC. I also just installed an after market heatsink (CoolerMaster Gemin II w/2 120mm 1200rpm) and the bios reports the CPU @ 29* C

K9A2 Platinum Bus Interface problem

Currently running:
Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum 1.6 Bios
CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 BE (O.C. to 3.0 [200 x 15])
RAM: 8 GB G. Skill 1066 RAM (Underclocked to PC 6400 4-4-4-12 for stability)
GPU: 2x Radeon HD 3870 Sapphire Edition
HDD: 2x Seagate 640 HDD's RAID 0 thru SB600
OS: XP Pro x64
My problem is my 2 GPU's have a max bus width of 16x 2.0. When using GPUz, only the first card is rated at 16x 2.0, while the second is 16x. Both cards are in the dark blue "mazerine" slots, and the BIOS option for High Speed mode in slots x1 and x4 are turned on "auto." Any ideas?

Quote from: Stu on 03-January-09, 02:49:08
Are you actually having any problems using the cards?
Normally I can run Farcry2 on Ultimate at 30-40 FPS no problem, however, with the bus width labeled as such i'm running around 4-5 FPS, so the 2nd card is creating a slowdown. I know the card is fine, because when it runs by itself not in x-fire at PCI-E x16 2.0.

K9A2 Platinum Memory/RAID config Prob.

I have an MSI K9A2 Plat mobo and a phenom 9500 processor. I bought Mushkin 8500 DDR2 memory. In Bios it sets it at 800 mhz. What do I need to do to get it to run at the advertised speed? This is my first MSI mobo. What are the optimal settings for this set up in bios? HT speed? its at auto but im sure its not at the clocking it should be. Also the memory has a timing of 5-5-4-12 at 2.2-2.35v. When i go into the bios and try to select timing it has about 15 different fields to input. Thats the first problem....
The second issue is that I have 2 raptor HDD's. I initially set them up in a RAID 0 configuration. when the computer restarted after the config it gets to the screen where it detects the two hard drives in raid 0 and says FUNCTIONAL... Thats were it freezes..... I have to do ctrl+alt+del to restart and go back in the BIOS and select IDE under the sata menu. I can format both hard drives and both are working correctly. I was going to try and set up the raid again by hitting ctrl+f but I cannot access the SB600 RAID bios on the board anymore, It just sticks at FUNCTIONAL. Any Ideas? BTW i have bios vers 1.1 850w coolermaster ps and 2 radeon 3870s.

Quote from: venomceli on 21-December-07, 03:30:40
I connected both raptors to the PROMISE controller and I get the same thing FUNCTIONAL, then it stops!
Also whats the best HT speed and how can I get my memory to run dual channel?
everytime I boot up it says single channel.
K9A2 Platinum
2 x 1 GIG DDR 2 8500 MUSHKIN
Phenom 9500
coolermax 850 true power ps
2 x Sapphire radeon 3870's
2 x 74gig WD Raptors
Coolermaster 830 case
"and how can I get my memory to run dual channel?
everytime I boot up it says single channel."
Its already in dual CH(since you have placed memory sticks in correct slots DIMM1 & DIMM2):
AMD's OverDrive Utility, note that it reads the memory controller as single channel because Phenom actually has two independent 64-bit memory controllers instead of a single 128-bit one. Current BIOSes and the AMD utility incorrectly report this as being single-channel.
* A single-channel mode, when only one of the 64-bit controllers is active (occupied with memory modules)
* Dual-channel ganged mode, the integrated memory controller is detected by a processor as a single 128-bit controller
* Dual-channel unganged mode, the integrated memory controller is detected by a processor as two independent 64-bit controllers.
Read this one as well:
Quote from: Mr_Raider on 12-December-07, 11:57:32
Regarding the dual channel thing, I found the following on the OCZ memory forums:
Just some info for you guys.
ganged mode is 1x128bit dual channel
unganged is 2x64 bit dual channel
Some motherboards are reporting unganged as single channel at boot, this is not true, if you see anyone saying they have defective memory please point them to this post.
Ganged will give higher sandra bandwidth at this time than unganged, this is because sandra does not fully support phenom and is working in 1 thread mode. Once sandra supports Phenom unganged 2x64bit will take the lead
If you are running multi threaded benchmarks you need to be in unganged mode, this is the fastest way of running the system.
CPUID also reports my 9500 as single channel.
You can change it from "advanced dram configuration" locate "Unganged Mode".
Do a memcheck with Memtest86 as well.
Another note about RAID problems, according to promise SS above, you have running BIOS 1.1 or 113, in 1.0,112,P0C Promise version is different(2.8.10.30.0012) you may try to flash back to one of those.
But since problem persist when you connect them to SB600 RAID, probably problem is not there...
Can you retry with different brand HDD's(not Raptors, but with hitachi or seagate for example)?

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