Kt3 Ultra-ARU MBFastTrack Problem

I am running a MSI KT3 Ultra- ARU I am having problems with MBFastTrack It doesn't let me do the auto setup. It does detect my HD. I have Raid Enabled. I am trying to run 2 HD's and I would like to make sure I have it all set up right. I don't think i do tho. what can i do to make sure it's running right and why can't i do the auto set up in MBFastTrack. I'm a newbe to computers so any ideas will be helpful.
My system:
Msi KT3 Ultra-ARU
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Two 512 , One 256 Samsung DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 8500LE 128 DDR
Sound Blaster Live
550 W PS
Hp CD writer

I have a Seagate 60g Master on IDE 3, and a Western digital 60g slaved on IDE 4. Hope that helps.
I'm trying to set things up on Raid 0 aswell

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Mouse: Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical
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I have a MSI KT3 Ultra ARU motherboard, AMD XP 2600+, 2x 256 MB Apacher DDR 333 and a Radeon 9700 Pro card. Yesterday I changed CPU from Thunderbird 1.4 to XP 2600+. I had some memory problems with one of the apacher modules, but everything worked fine afterwards. I must say my computer including the OS (WinXP Pro) has been realy stable up to now, and I have never seen this kind of a hang before.
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Hi DataFMT,
Thanks!
You should see my IRQ's, I tried to get them all on a single one :D
It doesn't matter if they are shared or not.
But the trouble is, the APIC does try to seperate them for the CPU's (Yes CPU's) as it's Multi-CPU specification and designed to seperate them in order to let the appropriate CPU handle the IRQ instead of all off them at the same time.
On a single CPU system this is stupid to use as the CPU needs to respond to every IRQ anyway.
Microsoft gas gone totaly nuts on this matter and their article about the APIC is as stupid as it can be.
They are mixing all sorts of (A)Pic's without knowing what they are doing.
Ever wondered why Multi-CPU systems are so hard to get stable when the need for high-load is there?
Every system today has multiple PIC (programmable IRQ controller).
The first old one is called PIC, that one needs to be programmed for every IRQ and has a hard time on IRQ sharing and the OS needs to program it, when you use Standard-PC, that's the one you use.
Not a good one to use as it slows the system down.
So far Microsoft is right.
The next one is the Local-APIC (A=Advanced), this one can share IRQ's without problems and sort of programs itself, ergo, you can't change IRQ's, and there is no need to do so anyway.
This one is used when you enable ACPI and use ACPI-compliant-system.
It's fast, stable and very OS/driver friendly.
Then you have the I/O APIC, in the chipset, that one is the APIC/MPS the BIOS setting controls.
MS screws up here big time, this one translates the real IRQ's into addresses and feeds them to the CPU PIC or Local-APIC, depend if ACPI is enabled or not.
This one is a trouble maker, because the translation isn't needed for a single CPU system and not all drivers like it's behavior.
Another thing is that it needs to buffer a lot, and when driving your system to the limits it can jump IRQ signals because the servicing of them can be a bit behind.
This looks like the system is faster, but a jump can cause a lot of trouble.
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Do a search in google and you see plenty examples.
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Hello
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KT3 Ultra ARU Lock up

My sig has everything I know about my computer.
I usually at 47 deg CPU and 42 System
the Hottest is 50 deg and 45 system and it did not
lock up.
It seems very arbitrary. No program or game etc. specificly is opening or closing at the time of lockup.
Sometimes i am AFK and it will be locked up when I come
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