K9N2 Diamond SATA Connections

I have a total of 6 SATA connections on this mobo. The two facing and the four to the right. My case is the CM Comos S. One SATA slot is used up by the front panel. I have 2 DVD drives and 2 HDD's. I have the front panel, both dvd's and my main HDD plugged into the four slot area. Looking at the front of the board, SATA6, is the only remaining open slot. SATA5 is blocked by the vid card. I connected cables, but the new drive is not detected. Why? also in BIOS it only mentions SATA's 1,2,3 and 4. Can someone please help?

Ok. Google the raid questions. There are several different types each has it's specific characteristics from raid 0 to jbod. It is way to much information to give via a forum chat. Benefits are data redundancy for some, data access times for others, combinations of those two characteristics with others. Do some research. Your manual will also give you some instruction. If it's a new install take your time, do your research on raid and make the decision for yourself. Further, with the new install you won't have to retro the AHCI to enable the 5 and 6 sata ports.
Quote from: tomween1 on 07-March-10, 08:18:41
aren't SATA 5 & 6 specifically for a raid set up?I presume then, that all 6 SATA connections are not the same.
Sorry I missed these questions. No 5 and 6 aren't specifically for a raid setup...I believe sata 1-4 use the nvidia raid controller and support up to 4 devices and the 5 and 6 ports are for silicon image controller and support only 2 devices. Anyway, check your manual or download one. It will tell you.

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K9N2 Diamond sata drives

I don't know if my problem is related to the original poster, but it's close...
I have the K9N2 Diamond board as well, and no matter which of my drives (several different HDs and Optical Drives) I plug into ports 5 and 6, nothing is recognized by BIOS or my Windows Vista Ult. x86 install.
Part of my confusion is that it doesn't seem that ports 5 and 6 are even mentioned in BIOS. The only progress I made is when I changed the Integrated Peripherals > RAID Mode option to AHCI, I get an after POST display similar to when you have a PCI controller, but it doesn't detect any drives. I have no idea if this is talking about ports 5&6, or possibly the rear eSATA ports though.
All drives in question work fine when plugged into ports 1-4.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sata ports 5-6 are supported only in AHCI mode. {Check the manual}
http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1438
- SATA II 1~4 support RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1 /5 or JBOD mode by NVIDIA® nForce 780a SLI
- SATA II 5~6 only support AHCI Mode
- 2 eSATA ports support RAID 0/ 1 mode by JMicron JMB363

K9N2 Diamond and Radeon HD 4890 Crossfire

Hey guys. Just your general noob question here. My mobo is a K9N2 Diamond SLI. It has support for 3-way SLI and as far as I can tell, the Nvida based chipsets don't support Radeon XFire. I was just wondering, though, does the board support the use of, say, a Radeon HD 4870x2 card? I was hoping maybe it would since it's one card with 2 onboard GPUs, but just wanted to make sure it does. I'm using an Nvidia GPU right now, but I've always like the ATIs better.

OK, this is back to what Bas said. He informed me that Crossfire works on any board. I've installed two 4890s on my K9N2 Diamond and connected the appropriate power connectors and crossfire ribbons. When my computer loads up, it sees both cards, but it does not recognize it as crossfire. Neither does CCC. Is it possible that the K9N2 won't run Crossfire setups (I mean, it is an SLI board and not AMD).

Boot with e-sata External HDD - K9N2 Diamond

Hello.
Installed Windows Vista Home Premium in one hdd, but want to put it in an external case and boot it from there. Does the K9N2 Diamond support boot with an external e-sata disk ? I know that with usb does, but e-sata can't fin out.

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Windows will refuse to boot from it (Microsoft does not want you to have a removable HD
This is somewhat true for external USB Hard Drive. However, it has nothing to do with Microsoft not wanting you to do anything. If Windows is installed on a USB Hard Drive, the problem is that when you try to boot from it, Windows will put out a BSOD. The reason is that during the early boot phase, Windows will fire up the USB Drivers. When that happens, there is a change of parameters which will cause a short shut-down of USB Functionality. Ultimately, Windows will not find the USB Drive it has just booted from and tell you that the whole drive or certain data cannot be found. This can be overcome by modifying parts of the Installation Routine that handles the Installation of the USB Drivers during boot-up phase.
In any case, the problem is related to USB Drives only. As eSATA-Ports are hosted directly by the SATA Controller, the operating system will basically just treat it as a normal hard drive (Windows would also not know the difference, when you install an eSATA Bracket connected to one or more of the internal SATA Ports.)
Also, AHCI it basically only needed for HotPlug Support. As long as the hard drive stays connected to the system, it will be treated like a normal SATA Drive.
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Microsoft does not want you to have a removable HD that you can carry all over the place and boot from
BTW: This will not work unless the different systems you want to use the installation with are the same or similar to the system configuration that Windows was installed on. A different video card and a differen chipset may render the installation pretty much useless. Also, when you change between a system that has AHCI Enabled for the SATA Controller to a System running in SATA/IDE Mode ---> and then back to an AHCI System, there is a high chance that the installation will not properly adapt to the hardware change and mess itself up trying to adapt to the situation in terms of driver intialization. You may run into to numerous BSODs.

K9N2 Diamond Not Recognizing SATA DVD Rom

I just though I would try to post here to see if anyone had any ideas as to what might be the cause or if I should just RMA the board and hope it gets resolved.
To sum it up I have a PC that doesn't always like to reboot (not a problem really as I don't like to reboot it except for when getting updates) and will not recognize the DVD drive plugged into the SATA ports. Originally I thought it may have just been a flaky optical drive as it worked long enough for me to get the OS installed and everything set up back in late June early July. However for some reason Windows XP Pro x64 and the BIOS stopped recognizing the optical drive. Since I thought it might have just been a flaky drive I didn't worry about it too much as I had everything set up - was just annoying that I couldn't watch DVDs (but I could just go to the other room to do that so not biggie). On Saturday I bought a new DVD drive (one that could play Blue Ray disks figuring since I have my monitor hooked up through an HDMI cable why not also have the capability to play Blue Ray disks) and the same problem exists. The BIOS will on a rare occasion actually recognize the DVD drive however as soon as it reboots again it will not and even when it did recognize the DVD drive by the time Windows loaded up it didn't pick up on it.
I have tried all four SATA ports in combination with my SATA hard drive (and alternating between six different SATA cables too) but a vast majority of the time if I have both the hard drive and DVD drive plugged in the PC will not boot up - it just seems to hang (and sometimes doesn't want to let me into the BIOS).
PC Specs (included links from original orders):
Power Supply: ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W Continuous @ 45°C (Maximum Continuous Peak: 1050W) ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Modular Heatpipe-Cooled SLI ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379007 )
Mother board: MSI K9N2 Diamond Motherboard on BIOS version 2.3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3975888&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 920 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103472 )
Memory: 8 GB Corsair 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (4x 2 GB strips) (2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 )
Video Card: Galaxy 96GGF6HMFEXX GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162020 )
Hard Drive: WD VelociRaptor 150GB SATA HD 10K/16MB/SATA-3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4164551&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Latest DVD Drive: LG - 8x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive ( http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9402265&type=product&id=1218099651419 ) (before that it was just a generic OEM Sony DVD Drive)
Keyboard: basic usb lenovo keyboard - nothing special about it (got this one because it is the same keyboard I use at work)
Mouse: Old Logitech USB mouse from something like 5 years ago
Gamepad: Logitech Rumblepad 2
OS: Currently Win XP Pro x64 (have Win 7 x64 disk but cannot install due to said problem with DVD drive recognition)

I haven't tested with a third DVD drive simply because I don't have a third :(
The original DVD drive (an OEM Sony Optiarc Beige 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD/CD Rewritable Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118033) was what was being used while I was installing everything and was the drive that I was noticing wasn't always showing up in Windows Explorer (well more often than not wasn't appearing, but it seemed to last long enough to get all the initial installations done and I really don't used the ROMs much past that). At the time I thought it might have been that the drive just went flaky and ignored it because I didn't use it.
The odd thing was it was also causing headaches when restarts were required for the same reason - the PC would freeze up on the motherboard splash screen (lack of a better term presently) where it normally does the POST tests (I think I am remembering that correctly .... when all the beeps takes place) so I unhooked the SATA connection to the motherboard for the drive and then the PC would actually reboot normally without the hanging. This made me also think it was the drive causing problems.
I've been running without any optical drive hooked up for a couple months now, but with getting my copy of Windows 7 I was getting ready to install that and picked up what I thought was the needed fix in a new DVD drive however when hooking it up the same problem started up again. This time when trying to figure out a setting that actually worked I rotated through all six of my SATA cables (motherboard came with extras ) and rotated them through all four normal SATA slots. Well actually I tied all six slots but it didn't seem like the BIOS wanted to pick up on slots five or six (the E-SATA if I recall correctly) as having devices (when I had the HDD and DVD Drive in slots five and six it said it couldn't find a bootable device).
I'm at work now so I can't double check in the BIOS but I am pretty sure it is just set for SATA since I don't use RAID or AHCI - I'll check again on this when I get home though.
The oddest thing about the whole thing (to me at least) is the lack of consistency with the BIOS recognizing the devices (well the DVD drive anyways). I would have thought that if it recognized the device (which it has from time to time) that it would keep on recognizing it, but it seems to want to forget that it did recognize it even after it did by the time Windows loads up.
It does not seem to have any problems when only the SATA HDD is hooked up though.
If it really is the MB being flaky I think I would only have four options:
1) Buy a SATA PCI controller card and see if I can get things up and running that way - though this wouldn't solve the problem if the motherboard is flaking out and not 100% sure what it would do for installing new OS quite yet .... not to mention be a little odd when there are 5 other open SATA ports on the motherboard)
2) RMA the motherboard and hope a replacement/fix can be made and be without a PC for the duration
3) Not upgrade to Windows 7 and sit on that upgrade till whenever and also have a new expensive paperweight (if I take the ROM out of the PC)
4) Get a new MB .... really don't want to pick this one since I built the thing tail end of June/beginning of July (just was slowly ordering the parts for longer than that .... I really need to stop doing that - kills possible return chances)
Of course I can also hope it is something else that I am just missing and that none of those are needed. I actually built my setup based on what a friend of mine has since his is/was pretty solid.

K9N2 Diamond and Sata ports 5&6

This is on a K9N2 Diamond MOBO
So I installed 2 SSD drives in my computer. I also have a Blu-Ray drive and 2 HDDs. I've installed the SSDs to SATA ports 1&2 and my HDDs to 3&4. My Blu-Ray drive is on SATA port 5. In this configuration the Blu-Ray drive doesn't show up. If I swap it with one of the HDDs, My 2 SSDs, Blu-Ray and one HDD show up, but the second HDD does not.
How can I get all of the components to show, or are SATA ports 5&6 there just to say you have them? Thank you in advance.

Think I read this FAQ before, but it was too long and complicated to my eyes:
The Southbridge of this motherboard (ICH6)could support 1 IDE channel and 4SATA interface. There are three items about SATA devices settings in BIOS Setup (Integrated peripherals->SATA Devices Configuration):
a.Combined: The mode is a traditional mode which contains 2 IDE channel combined by one IDE channel and 2 SATA interface, and could connect 4 devices. If you choose this item, you could get other two items: PATA IDE Mode & SATA IDE Mode, PATA IDE Mode is used to set IDE as primary/secondary channel, and the SATA as secondary/primary channel automatically. It’s mentioned that if you choose PATA as the primary channel, SATA3&SATA4 will be as secondary, if you set PATA as secondary channel, SATA1&SATA2 will be used as primary channel. If you choose combined mode, you’ll get 2 IDE channels in Standard CMOS Features:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave
b.Enhanced: Choose this mode, you could use 1 PATA and 4 SATA, which could connect 6 devices, and you’ll get 4 IDE channels in Standard CMOS Features:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave
Third IDE Master
Third IDE Slave
Fourth IDE Master
Fourth IDE Slave
Indeed we could just use 3 channels of them, (the secondary channel has canceled according to the Intel spec), the primary channel is the IDE channel, the third and the forth channel are bridged by SATA.
c.SATA: It’s the mode shield the IDE, and just use the 4 SATA. Choose this mode, in Standard CMOS Feature, you’ll get 2 IDE channels:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave

K9N2 Diamond shuts down upon install of Windows

I am new to MSI and have started w/ an K9N2 Diamond. I have fully assembled the system and have run into a problem when starting a installation of Windows. I have no troubles entering BIOS and can stay there for any length of time. My problems start as soon as Windows tries to install (Windows 7). The white bar that goes from left to right gets about 90% across and then shuts the system down. I have tried this repeatedly w/ the same result. During the 5 - 6 attempts I was still able to try and boot from BIOS, still no problem with BIOS starts.
My system is comprised of the following:
1 MSI K9N2 Diamond Mobo
2 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black
3 8gb Kingston HyperX 800mhz
4 Antec Truepower 750w
5 XFX 9800 GXT+
6 WD 750gb HDD & WD 300gb HDD (only 750 connected for initial install)
7 DVD/CD RW drive (SATA)
I have tried moving the SATA cables to different locations and switched HDDs, each w/ the same outcome. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It's not a restart. All but the processor and memory are equal to the system the PSU was pulled from! The PSU is only 6 months old. I took apart this build, which it was running fine.
ASUS A*N32 SLI Deluxe, 4gb 800mhz Kingston HyperX, 2 XFX 9800GTX+ in SLI, 2 HDD (same one in this build, again only using one), 2 dvd-rw/ cdrw drives, a zelman 939 series cpu cooler.
So in either case (ASUS or MSI build) I'm not over powering the PSU.
If I pull a couple sticks of ram could this make a difference?
Thoughts?

K9N2 Diamond - bios does not recognise Intel SSD 520 series

Hi,
I have a K9N2 Diamond motherboard and BIOS v2.7. I recently bought an Intel SSD 520 Series and when I connect it, the BIOS does not recognise the HDD at all. When I try to install Windows 7, the HDD is shown at the list, but it says that I can not install Windows at the HDD.
I have tried to connect the HDD at SATA port 5 and 6 and set the RAID mode to ACHI and also at ports 1 and 2 and set the RAID mode to IDE. Nothing works.
Any ideas?
Regards,
George

.and does the problem appears using the HDD which was equipped in this notebook?
If the BSOD would not appear using the HDD, then a problem is realalted to the inserted SSD drive.
In many cases firmware updates are released for SSD drives and in some cases this might be a solution.

K9N2 Diamond SLI - How-to

Hey there everyone: I decided to go a little nuts and try to build a hell of a rig. BUT I have come across some difficulties.
First Here is what I have
[EDIT: forgot the CPU]
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition
Thermaltake V1 cooling [/Edit]
Antec 900 Case
MSI K9N2 Diamond Board
4x2GB Mushkin DDR 1066 ram
3x 750GB Samsung Sata 300 harddrives
3x BFG 8800GTX 768MB Video cards
1000 watt Antec Powersupply
2x Samsung DVD burner
The problem here, in SLI (2 or 3 way) I get no video. when I take out all but 1 card, I get video, can make changes, but cannot disable the integrated Graphics card (upon boot the system hangs after memory count and before harddrive detection) The Harddrives I intend to run in raid 5.
Any ideas?
Thanks James.

Each time the system fails to boot; I reset(clear) the bios and load my known good values for a single card.
SLI-Ready memory - disabled (Just because it is known good basic config - during SLI testing, I have tried both disabled and enabled)
On-Chip VGA is enabled as with 1 card it will not boot with that disabled (this is tested repeatedly with the same results: Post OK, then when It should be detecting harddrives, it just sits there)
Hybrid SLI - also enabled as a function of the above (or auto, cant remember right now)
Primary Graphics adapter is set to PCI express slot.
The power connections are all in place - 8 pin motherboard additional power, all 6 6pin video power, etc.
The motherboard diagnostic lights all go green eventually, which tells me it likes something, however I never get a video signal to the monitor
BTW the monitor is a Viewsonic 22" LCD (don't know if it makes a difference)
This is not my first build - but it is my first SLI build, and I am thinking that there may be more to the SLI than I am thinking: EX. will I see a display during the entire boot sequence? if not, then that is partly to blame. I have not installed the OS yet (Vista 64 and Linux) and if it won't activate the display until the OS is loaded I just need to be sure that is whats going on... Then I will simply pull 2 of the cards, install the OS's and then put them back in.

K9N2 Diamond refuses to P.O.S.T...

Greetings,
I'm in a bit of a predicament and was wondering if anybody has some ideas as to the solution to the problem I am about to present.
Let me start with a little background:
I built this system around 2 years ago and haven't had many problems with it. I've reformatted numerous times, the most recent being last month. About a week or two ago
I tried to play a .wmv file via Windows Media Player. My system hung during program execution and I was forced to manually power off my computer (in other words, I held
the power button for five seconds). When I powered the system back on it failed to P.O.S.T.
Now, during a normal start-up a number of things happen:
A.) The computer powers on, fans start whurring, lights from the K9N2's on-board LED's will flash between green and red (this is important), and finally power is fed to my I/O devices.
B.) The mainboard then beeps (I cannot remember the beep pattern), all the on-board LED's are green, my display shows my BIO's screen, and the system then continues it operations before loading the Operating System.
C.) Windows is then loaded and I have an operational computer. Hurray.
Here is what happens as of now:
A.) The computer powers on, fans star whurring, lights from the K9N2'S on-board LED's will flash for what appears to be two cycles (basically the LED's go through two patterns) and then I hear a long beep followed by two short beeps. (Beeeeeeepp.... Beep. Beep.) The LED pattern stays as follows: RED, RED, RED, GREEN.
No power is fed to my I/O devices and I receive no display. The computer basically hangs. One thing I feel I should mention is that I was able to get the computer to start again by clearing the CMOS but this strategy will not work anymore. Note: this process involved restarting the computer countless times, clearing the CMOS, starting the computer and seeing if it would P.O.S.T, if it did not, I repeated the process. It was not as if I simply cleared the CMOS and the computer worked instantly. I had to do it several times.
Now it seems no matter what I do the system refuses to P.O.S.T. My computer specs are listed at the bottom of this thread. If you felt something was not clear or you feel you need more information, please let me know and I will be glad to explain. I look forward to working with anyone who is willing to help me tackle this problem.
Take care,
pr3ddd
COMPUTER SPECS:
-MSI K9N2 DIAMOND AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA NFORCE 780A SLI ATX MAINBOARD
-ABS TAGAN BZ SERIES 900W PSU
-AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6400+ @3.2GHZ PROCESSOR
-4GB OF CORSAIR DOMINATOR DDR2 1066 RAM
-NVIDIA 9800GX2 DUAL-GPU GRAPHICS CARD
-SEAGATE BARRACUDA 500GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
-CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI ELITE PRO SOUND CARD
-MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS X64 PROFESSIONAL

So.... Problem solved. Looks like it was the graphics card. When I got the almost normal boot I realized that the only reason I had: GREEN, RED, GREEN, GREEN LED's was because the system was waiting for me to load the default values for the CMOS but since I didn't have any display I couldn't see that. So I replaced my HDMI cable with a VGA cable and the system reverted to the previous RED, RED, RED, GREEN state. At that point, I took out the graphics card, used the onboard video and wa-la. Thank you Mike. I'd have never thought to reseat the graphics card. Looks like no games for a while... Oh well.

K9N2 Diamond - Can't Disable Onboard Graphics

Hello all,
I have a peculiar problem (or maybe it isn't problem at all):
If I select to disable the onboard graphic chip in BIOS, the system halts (complete freeze) after memory check, only way out is to force shutdown and BIOS reset.
On board, there are four little status leds, when the onboard graphics is disabled, they are (looking from the "back" of board) from left to right: green-red-green-red. I haven't been able to find out what the sequence means, looks to me like MSI has never published the codes.
The freeze happens whether I have quickboot enabled or not.
My system specs are:
MSI K9N2 Diamond
AMD Phenom 9850 BE
XFX GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
8 GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 DHX
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB S300 RAID 1
CoolerMaster 700W REAL POWER PRO MODULAR PSU
Lian-Li SILVER CLASSICAL SERIES
Philips Brilliance 200W 20.1"
BIOS version is 2.0 (not flashed).
The XFX card works perfectly and when both cards are active, I have no issues with system at all (all works perfectly). Also RAM has passed Memtest++ several times and is correctly detected and configured by BIOS (800MHz).
All BIOS settings affecting performance are in their defaults (no overclocking, no voltage tweaking etc).
The problem is that I can't set these two cards to SLi nor MultiGPU because they are not identical (please correct me if I'm wrong in that).
The problem is that both cards now want to run separate monitor (I only got one I can use permanently) meaning that I either won't see boot messages or I won't see desktop depending on which card I have the monitor connected on.
So, in brief, here's my questions are:
Do you know why disabling the onboard chip freezes POST?
Do you know a solution to this problem?
If you answer "yes" to either or both above, please tell me too what is the reason and what is the solution

Hi and thanks for the reply.
Just to be sure what you mean:
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
You should be able to disable onboard while monitor cable is connected to the 8800, should even be automatically disabled.
You mean having monitor connected to both cards and then disable the onboard chip?
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
Could have to do with the Hybrid SLI feature . Disable if you don't want it.
That's disabled currently (you can't disable onboard chip if it's enabled).
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
As BIOS seems to be involved, what BIOS version do you have?
Original 2.0 (shipped with board).

K9N2 Diamond Will Not Load Os XP

K9N2 Diamond has 2 hard drives installed on sata ports 5 & 6, Western Digital WD2500AAKS 250GB Raid 0. I want these for my boot drive & are setup in bios as boot drive so I canload windows XP SP3. Now on sata 1 & 2. I have 2 WD1001FALS 1TB as raid 1. I tried to install XP by booting to lite-on dvdrw. MSI website has nvraid drivers but are too large for a floppy disk and don't know which files to choose, No instructions telling which files to use, root folder files or disk 1 or disk 2 files for floppy. I tried them all and they didn't work. I went to nvidia website and downloaded drivers from there and they did fit on floppy and they did load. I loaded both files after prompted to press F6. Windows started loading, found drives and selected drives on sata 5 & 6, raid 0 stripe. Windows formatted ntfs and started loading files but when it tried to boot but when it tried to copy the file NVGTS.EXE it stopped loading and it couldn't find NVGTS.EXE on the floppy or the system after it found them earlier but and couldn't even point it to the file and find it so I had to skip it and went on to the next one and it couldn't find any of the files on the floppy. So Slip-Streamed the drivers onto my xp installation disk, then tried to load. It went further this time but when the system booted from windows for the first time it went into protection blue screen right as the XP scrolling bar is seen. I tried everything from turning off all other devices and disconnecting them but XP would not load. So I loaded PX on IDE 1 with maxtor 40gb drive and it worked on the 40pin IDE. I updated bios to V 1.2 and loaded all the drivers. and its working now but I bought this board to use raid 0 for speed as my boot drive on sata 5 & 6. It seems the board or the drivers are bad. I want to set it up like this; A floppy,Zip 250, 3 DVDRW, Raid 1 Mirror with 2 300GB Maxtor Drives on sata 3 & 4, Raid 1 Mirror with 2 1TB Western Digital Drives on sata 1 & 2 and Raid 0 Stripe with 2 Western Digital 250GB on sata 5 & 6 for booting XP OS. Also I don't know what memory slots to use for dual channel, the manual is not clear here, do I use 1+3 or 1+2.
Please help someone! And sorry for the last post...I just pasted from word not thinking. Been along day.

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K9N2 Diamond problems installing Vista 64bit Raid Drivers

Hello everyone I have been having problems installing Raid Drivers during Vista 64 Install. The 32-bit drivers work fine and I can also set up Windows Vista 32 in Raid 0. But the same place where the " No CD/DVD drivers..." clause is will not let me use 64-bit Drivers. I have tried MCP72 and MCP73 raid drivers and neither is recognized. This is my setup.....
AMD Athlon 64 x 2 (3.2ghz) Black Edition
LiteOn Blu-Ray Player/Burner
LiteOn DVD/CD Burner
2 x 640 GB WD HDD
8gb (4 x 2gb Sticks) OCZ PC 6400 (DDR2 800) Ram
2 x Nvidia GeForce 9800 GSOs SLI
Xion 850w Modular Power Supply
K9N2 Diamond Motherboard
I am not using IDE at all, everything is Sata. So in BIOS I have IDE Controller off. I have the SATA port Set to RAID. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I had this same setup on my K9N SLI Platinum board and it all worked fine. However every since I "upgraded" to this board I havent been able to install Vista 64 on my Array. I also have tried formatting the HDDs and I have tried setting up the Raid all over. Plz help me. This is my first post ever in a forum so if you need any info that I did not post here pls just let me know :D

By the way Here is my BIOS Settings:
- Standard CMOS Features
(None of my Hardware is Listed)
- Advanced BIOS Features
Full Screen Logo Display Enabled
Quick Booting Enabled
Hybrid SLI Support Disabled
Primary Graphics Adapter PCI-E
Boot Up Num-Lock LED On
IOAPIC Function Enabled
MPS Table Version 1.4
PCI Latency Timer 64
* CPU Functions
(None Available)
* Chipset Features
HPET Disabled
On-Chip VGA Disabled
* Boot Sequence
1st Boot Device BD Player
2nd Boot Device Raid Array
3rd Boot Device None
* Trusted Computing
TCG/TPM Support No
-Integrated Peripherals
USB Controller Enabled
USB Legacy Support Enabled
Onboard LAN Controller Enabled
LAN Option ROM Disabled
Onboard IEEE1394 Controller Disabled
Extra Raid/IDE Controller Enabled
Raid Mode RAID
HD Audio Codec Internal Codec
*On-Chip ATA Devices
On-Chip IDE Controller Disabled
PCI IDE BusMaster Disabled
On-Chip SATA Controller Enabled
RAID Mode RAID
- I/O Devices
COM Port 1 3F8/IRQ4
Not sure if this helps any but I just thought I would post it anyways :D

X-Fi Xtreme PCIe Card MSI Edition(MS-4132) problem XP PRO SP3 K9N2 Diamond

Hello,
Need help with installation of driver for the X-Fi XP is finding the card but will not install. I went to Creative Web site and updater stated not supported device found to update need help..
K9N2 Diamond
XP Pro SP 3 32bit
Rosewill 1000W PSU
MSI N9800 Series SLI
Seagate sata 500GB X2

Have you tried installing the drivers from the MSI website?
The drivers are available >>here<<.
Also, make sure your motherboard drivers are installed properly and that there are no yellow exclamation marks in device manager as that would also explain why the sound card drivers won't install.

K9n2 diamond issue

Hi, i have a k9n2 diamond motherboard with latest bios and today it cannot recognize any hard disk....
i tried all the settings (ide,raid,ahci modes), fail safe & optimal bios settings, reflash the bios from startup disk but didn't work...
i have 4 disks and change the sata cables too
so i guess its hardware fail...
my cpu is phenom II x4 3.0Ghz 940
newer motherboards from msi (am3 & am3+) support phenom II x4 3.0Ghz but in cpu support list have only 945 not 940....
will these motherboards support my cpu or i need new one?

"AM3 processors work on AM2+ motherboards due to the presence of both the DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers on the processor
AM2+ processors do not work on AM3 motherboards due to the processor's lack of a DDR3 memory controller
The pin configuration of the AM2+ socket (940 pins)[2] is mechanically different from the AM3 socket (941 pins)"
phenom II 945 is AM3 so no problems but phenom II 940 is AM2+ and will not work on AM3 & AM3+ mobos^^

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