MOVED: P965 Platinum vs ATI 5770

This topic has been moved to Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad boards.
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Quote from: graner on 18-March-10, 05:02:27
I have the same problem with XFX HD5770 XT 1 GB on my P965 Platinum mainboard. I have tried 1.8 bios and 1.93b with no result.
I have contacted the support and hope for a new bios update. That must be the problem ?
MSI P965 Platinum
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz Socket
OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 2048MB
Hiper ATX 580W
And here is the answer from MSI Costumer Service:
Dear Daniel Granér,
Thanks for contacting msi technical support team! Regarding your issue, this mainboard doesn't support ATI 5770 card. So please change other VGA card to use.
Best Regards,
msi technical support team

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    Thanks in advance.

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    1) What is the different between SATA7 and the rest SATA1-6
    SATA-Port 7 belongs to the JMicron-Chipset, SATA-Ports 1-6 to the Intel ICH8R-Chipset.  It is important to know that in order to be able to choose the right drivers.
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    2) Should I leave my 500GB drive connected to SATA7?  What is the best-practice?  I am thinking of creating a RAID5 in the future that's why I left SATA1-SATA6 open.
    RAID 5 should be possible with that Hard Drive hooked up to one of the ICH8R-Ports, even though it is not part of the Array.  If it is hooked up to SATA-Port seven, it cannot be part of the ICH8R-based RAID.
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    3) What do I need to do in the BIOS?
    The relevant Option for those devices that are associated with the JMicron-Chipset/Controller (IDE-Port, SATA-Port 7) is
    "Integrated Peripherals --> Onboard RAID Controller".  For Intel-ICH8R-Raid it should be set to IDE or even DISABLED, if no drives are attached to either SATA7 or the IDE-Port.
    For optimal configuration concerning ICH8R-devices (RAID and non-RAID) check manual on page 3-14.
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    4) Any other recommendation of hardware and BIOS setup?
    That depends on what you plan to do and on the actual hardware hooked up to the board.

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