MSI GNX MAX-FISR P4, RAID Controller

I just ordered and received a MSI GNX MAX-FISR P4 motherboard, and I have  a question.  My impression is this has a RAID controller, yet P. 2-18 of the manual suggests that I can only connect ONE hard drive to IDE3, the raid controller. THis doesn't make sense to me--by definition a RAID controller must support 2 or more hard drives.  Is IDE3 a standard IDE connection and RAID is only via serial ATA?

wonkanoby is right.  he and i had this conversation a few days ago.  in addition, i called msi last night and confirmed it.  if you have 2 IDE drives that you want to RAID on this board, then you can hook one of the drives into IDE3, but you must use an SATA-to-IDE converter for the other drive (and hook it into one of the SATA ports).
i wish they would have clarified that a little more in the product description page on MSI's website.  but it's a super board!  very easy to set up.

Similar Messages

  • 655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID-0 ?

     ?(
    I am running into a small problem while upgrading a high end workstation at work and wondered if anyone was having the same problem, or could provide some advice.  Here are the main specs.
    -MSI 655 MAX-FISR (MS-6730)  (No HT)
    -Antec 400W power supply
    -Intel P4 2.66Ghz 400/533Mhz Bus
    -Crucial (2 sticks) 512mb DDR PC2700
     Aligned in DIMM 1+3 as recommended by MSI
    -MSI 128MB 8XAGP DDR Ti4200-Td8X
    -Seagate (2 SATA) Barracuda Serial 80GB
     In Raid-0
    Here is my problem, and small but painful so far.  The floppy controller on the 655 does not appear to be working.  It registers in the BIOS and is setup to be the first boot device.  When XP installation starts it asks to press F6 if you need to add SCSI,RAID,etc software.  I press F6, and about a minute later it asks for the floppy with drivers for the onboard promise SATA software.  Floppy does not initialize.  The power lite just stays on.  I tried to other floppy drives and another cable which I know work.  Still nothing.  I need to load this driver otherwise the SATA drives can not be seen by XP.  I even tried it a different way with Seagate DiscWizard, but the boot floppy does not work that way either.  I am thinking that the floppy controller on the board is bad.  All the hardware is setup / configured properly.  BIOS is all set.
    Very frustrating, I hope that I am just missing something small. I have a tech support email sent to MSI.  Thanks in advance if you can help.
    Arcteryx~

    Andy2 / Wonkanoby,
    I will try flipping the cable now and the bios.  Only thing is that the cable and board both have the cable guide tab that normally prevents you from putting the cable on the wrong way.  Unless I really forced it on without paying attention.  I have to go to another office but thank you for your quick response.  Hopefully it is that simple.
    Whipsnade, yes I have tried two other floppys and one other cable with the same results.  Hopefully I will have a postive post when I try Andy2 / Wonkanoby recommendations.
    Thank you all for the quick response!

  • 655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID PORT

    (wonkanoby, can you use the force to help me on this one?)
    Configuration:
    MSI 655 Max FISR 6730 (non HT) MoBo
    Antec True 400W
    (2)Western Digital (10,000 rpm) Raptors
    Intel P4 2.66ghz
    MSI TI4800 8XAGP
    Plextor 48/40/48 burner
    MSI 52X CDROM
    Problem:
    The second SATA port is not working (ser2)
    both drives have been tested and work fine.  (ser1) shows the drives seperately in the array.  (ser2) does not show either of the drives.
    I have tried tons of different configurations, cleared CMOS, re-seated everything, disabled/re-enabled SATA in bios, still nothing.
    ???Does anyone have any ideas/tricks to get this (ser2) port working correctly so I can setup both harddrives???
    Background:
    I have already had to send back (MRA-NewEgg) this board one time because of a similar problem that I did not spend a lot of time troubleshooting.  I know that a lot of people are having problems and that the SiS 655 sucks! :O  This time I decided to troubleshoot and that it might be something small I was missing.  No such luck.  I do not feel like sending this back and losing another week of use on this workstation unless absolutely necessary.  I do have this same board on a similar system with (2)SATA Seagate 7200 drives and it works great.  I am really losing my respect for MSI though as I have never had a bad motherboard from other companies, and this is 2 in a row for MSI.  I even tried this:
    http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/index.php?threadid=18931&boardid=10&sid=2ffcacaf0448de534331ac97aaa46912
    with no luck.
    Advice:
    If I can't get this working and return, I really do not want to get another 655 board.  I have not read up yet on the (Canterwood 875P Chipset) boards from MSI.  Has there been similar issues / problems with SATA Raid as the 655 has?  Im thinking of just paying the restocking fee with NewEgg and going with an Intel Canterwood board.  Sure, the overclocking is not as good as other manufacturers, but this is a work machine so it won't be OC anyway.  I would rather go with stability.  Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
    Arcteryx-

    12 views... no replies!   :(

  • Msi 655 max fisr ht ready: does it have fsb800 support?

    i own msi 655 max fisr mobo, that supports ddr333 and fsb 533 as msi says. but it can handle also ddr 400 through overclocking and the bios has an option for fsb selection up to 250 mhz. according to me, this meens that one can use a cpu at fsb 800 by overclocking the mobo from the bios, even if it doesn't support the microcode of the cpu. does anyone have tested this statement, as at the time it is onlu speculation by me, as it is too expensive for my to buy new cpu and try it.
    moreover, my revision of the mobo is stepping b0, thus it supports ht cpus and if it proves to support fsb 800 by overclocking, then i can keep it for a while, upgrading my system only with new cpu. i'll be thankful if anyone can provide me with some information on this topick.

    What I am trying to explain is the downclocking of a DDR 400 RAM 1st to 333 Mhz then try to o/c to get DDR 400 or above, not saying that you are wrong.
    Any board can support o/c'ing but it is all up to whether the hardwares that you have and their capability to do so as no one can actually determined whether or not the hardwares that you have will definately let you ends up the way it's really meant to be as there's always important facts being left out so it's always trial and error...
    I have 2 of these systems running on the same mobo, but the highest I can reached with DDR 400 RAMs are just near DDR 400 not exactly 400 MHz and FSB are at near 170 quad = 170 x 4 = 680FSB... from a FSB 533 CPU. Both have different results as 1 is with DDR 333 RAMs o/c'ed to 380MHz on 2.8 B CPU and another with DDR 400MHz down to 333MHz then o/c'ed up to near 400Mhz on 2.8B CPU also...

  • Anybody have ANY ideas? MSI GNB MAX FISR

    Does anybody have any knowledge of when MSI's next updated BIOS will be with the AGP/PCI frequancy selector and AGP/PCI Lock will be bought out? I look forward with anticipation! Anybody have release dates atall?

    aint that just stupid?,
    would it cost them more to make it with agppci lock?
    If it was with that i would have bought it  8)

  • Msi 6565 max fisr gnb and ATI 8500 problems..

    hi,
    Ive got a big problem, i put my new mobo in with a new processor and when i boot up the system, there is no response on my monitor, i have tried the following.
    different monitor
    different video card (current one is radeon 8500 128mb version)
    isolating everything but the vid card and the mobo (taking off all HD, floppy, etc.
    what else should i try? its becoming very frustrating?  is it possible that i didnt recieved the correct p4? how do i tell if it is infact a northwood? should it say on the box or os there some other way that i should know... one thing that i think im worried about is that my video card might be using 3.3v and the mobo doesnt support 3.3v on the agp....i think ir ead that somewhere...any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Corsair 333 Mhz DDR is an excelent choice but can be a little pricey.  That is what I am using with the same board and it is rock solid.  Any 333 Mhz DDR ram from a major manufacturer will work great on that board.  You can use 266 Mhz DDR as well if you do not overclock anything but the savings in price are usually not enough to matter.  Make sure whatever ram you use is NOT registered (registered and buffered are the same thing).  2 exactly matched modules will give the best performance on that board.  I still think the problem you are having is the video card.

  • MSI GNB MAX-FISR agp/pci lock

    Does it have agp/pci lock ?
    -Cheers, ScadamiCa

    aint that just stupid?,
    would it cost them more to make it with agppci lock?
    If it was with that i would have bought it  8)

  • Problems with 655-MAX FISR

    I have an MSI 655-MAX FISR motherboard and I installed a Radeon 9000 128mb Pro on it. I play counter-strike alot and on my old pc, like 2 or 3 months before I built this one it started to skip and I got this motherboard and it skips on counter-strike too. I play for like 10-15 seconds then I freeze for like 5-10 then I play for like 10-15 seconds again and so on. I have tried a Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb and it does the same thing and I have also tried different ram and it does the same thing. What could be causing this problem? Is it the fact that this motherboard only works with Geforce cards ? Plz help me! Thanks.
    My Rig :
    Pentium 4 2.41 GHZ with 533FSB
    80 Gig Maxtor HD
    550 Watt Power Supply
    Radeon 9000 128mb Pro
    512mb PC2100 266mhz - also tried 512mb PC2700 333mhz together and seperate
    Kingwin K-11 Case

    Did that already, when I uninstalled the drivers for 9000 and put in 9700 but it still did the same thing. What else could be the problem, I have tried alot of things and don't know what else to do. Help Plz :(

  • 655-max Fisr

    Hi,
            I got some problems with my MSI 655-MAX FISR Motherboard. I play alot of Counter-Strike and when I play my comp freezes for about 5 seconds then I can move again for like 10-15 seconds then it freezes again for 5 seconds and so on. It does this over and over and frankly I don't know what the problem is. I have a Radeon 9000 128mb Pro and I tested a Radeon 9700 128mb Pro on it but it did the same thing. Could it be my memory or something???
    My Rig Is As Follows:
    Pentium 4 2.41Ghz
    Maxtor 80 Gig HD
    Xcase 550 Watt Power Supply
    PC2100 266mhz 512DDR RamRadeon 9000 128mb Pro
    2 Front fans, 1 Rear fan, 1 Side Panel fan, plus the CPU and VGA fans.
    Someone please help me with this problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dont forget now, Counter Strike is a Very Graphics Intensive 3D Game, And I am in NO way Knocking your Graphics Card But Understand that the Radeon 9000 is NOT Really Built For High Performance Gaming Card. You should Save up for a Higher Performance "Gaming GPU", I mean I have seen the All Powerful ATI-9700-Pro Advertized for $200.00US Dont Forget this Card was Over $400.00 1 Year AGO, and it is Just a Hair Bit Slower than the 9800-XT....Second, I think that You have answered your Own Question as Far as your Current RAM is Concerned, I mean I see where your 655-MAX Even Supports Up to PC-3200 (DDR-400MHZ) RAM >>> http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=655_Max-FISR   If you were to Get Even 512MB of some Either Corsair, or Kingston "Value Series" RAM, Your Bandwith would Increase by Leaps and Bounds .
    Your Processor is Definitely Fast enough for Great Gaming, along with your MB. So if I were you, I would First Upgrade the RAM, and see where this Brings you, and you can Do this For about $100.00 Bucks. Then worry about updating Graphics Later, Especially if other than the Temporary "Lock-Ups" and resuming, You are Satisfied with the Overall Graphics Quality...............Sean REILLY875

  • Realisticly:how much OC with my system?MSI GNB MAX

    Ok, How much OC I can get, with my system, if I change the 1.5ghz 266DDR Value RAM to something better. Any suggestions.
    I plan to ditch the ram for something better, but my mobo, and CPU aren't that fast compared to the C, and E, and the 64 stuff.
    I am using the 2.8B, E7205/i7205 mobo.
    Only fan cooling. Using the pipe101, will place the tornado on it. Does the vantec fan card improves my GF performance.
    I am just able to OC my card from 350 to 388mhz, 1.09ghz, others got a 420mhz on a supperior system. All using the inno3d 6800gt.. Or I'm looking at an "old" system already.
    The OC FSB is just up to 153. I read somewhere that it is useless/not worth to OC this system.
    So what do you think?
    my system is in the signature

    I would not push further than 160 FSB, you can corrupt your disks since PCI /AGP are not locked. Usually PCI frequency above 38 MHZ is not considered safe and 150 FSB corresponds to 37.5 MHZ PCI frequency. I corrupted my 30 GB WD at 160 FSB.
    I have GNB Max, P4 3.06HT, 2x 512MB KVR DDR333 (CAS2.5 rated). I oveclocked the system to 150 FSB,  P4 is running as 3.45GHz@600FSB (HT is on), with dual channel DDR300 memory (2-3-3-6 timings). System is 100% stable after testing with Linux kernel compile, Prime 95, 3DMark benchmarks. The performance gain in CPU intensive benchmarks is almost the same as increase in FSB frequency, which is 12.5%, since RAM overclocks in sync with CPU.
    If you settle at 150 FSB, your DDR266 will be running as DDR300. You can test it with its given SPD values and if not stable you can reduce CAS setting one step, i.e. from CAS2.5 to CAS3. If none of these are possible, you can upgrade with DDR400.
    I use Vantec Fan card with my GF4, but it did not help me increase my overclock. However, I removed the fan on my GF4 (heat sink is not removed just the fan) after trying to increase the overclock. Vantec Fan card is much more silent compared to the Thermaltake fan and copper heat sink combo. I still can overclock as before but do not need to put up with the noise of Thermaltake fan.  
    Hope this helps
    My Config:
    MSI GNB Max FISR
    P4 3.06 HT (SL6PG) (oc 3.45@600)
    2X KVR DDR333 CAS2.5 (running as DDR300 2-3-3-6 timings)
    Compro Personal Cinema GF4-Ti4200 64MB (oc 285/570)
    SB Live!
    DLink 802.11b wireless PCI
    Seagate 80GB EIDE (Windows XP SP2)
    WD 30GB EIDE (Slackware Linux current)
    NEC 4X DVDR/RW
    Sony 16X DVDROM
    etc

  • GNB Max-FISR and VCORE

    Mt CPU Core Voltage is showing up as 1.42-1.44 in
    the Bios & MBM.
    Is this a problem?? Should I change it to !.5 or so in
    the bios??
    The board has Bios 2.2 in it......
    CPU temp 50 deg Cel.
    Thanks
    Mike

    Thanks ASSAF for the reply. If 1.42-1.44 is ok I'll
    just leave it alone for now....untill CPU and MB ard
    broke in.
    My GNB Max-FISR is stable . I really like this board.
    Thanks
    Here's my setup .
    Intel P4 2.53/533 c1
    MSI GNB Max-FISR
    2x256 PC2100 Kingmax
    MSI GF4 TI4600 WD 80Gig/7200 8MB
    Antec 500W Yamaha CDW-FIE
    Creative 52X CD-ROM
    SB Audigy
    Promise Ultra 133 TX2
    WME

  • MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Questions & RAID Promise FastTrak Controller Issue

    I have recently rebuilt my system replacing the MSI KT3 with an MSI K7N2 Delta. I have been impressed with the features and stability of the system, however, I have some questions that I hope some of you that have more experience of this board can answer:
    1. I am using the AMD Athlon XP 2200 (and all the other components including the Lian Li case) which I was using on the KT3 board. The CPU temperature is around 45 degrees C but on the KT3 it was only 35 degrees C when idle. Any ideas ? The heatsink is definetly mounted properly. The temperature did drop by 10 degrees C when I flashed the
    BIOS to fix the known CPU temperature issue but I think its still high.
    2. I do not have any serial ATA devices or anything connected to IDE3 channel and during the BIOS boot up I get the message:
     "No drives attached to FastTrak Controller. Bios Not installed."
    Is this correct ? Should I be getting this message ?
    I would like to disable the onboard Promise Controller since it is taking up resources and it slows down the boot speed (although only slightly). The MSI website says that the onboard RAID controller can't be disabled. I think this is poor design. Does anyone know if this is going to be addressed in future BIOS releases ?
    3. Which of the USB ports are USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. I thought it was rather strange that only 2 of the 4 ports on the header actually active.
    Many thanks for your help.
    Rupesh

    First off your temp is ok on that board. If you have not loaded the onboard raid driver do so and it is something you have to suffer with on the MSI board. All of your USB ports should run at USB 2.0 and you also should be able enable all of them in the bios.

  • More than 4 IDE devices using the Raid controller on the MSI-6567 645E Max2-LRU ?

    Here is the specs page of the board
    http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=79
    I have a HD and a CD-ROM drive on the first IDE controller, and an HD and a CD-writer on he second IDE controller
    Since the specs say the board only supports 4 IDE devices I was wondering-
    1) Can I connect another HD to one of the onboard Raid controllers, and work with it in addition to all the other IDE devices currently plugged in, without RAID?
    i.e. CD-writer, CD-ROM, and 3 HD's working together ?
    2) Can I connect 2 more HD's, one to each onboard RAID controller and have them work in raid in addition to all existing IDE deviced?
    i.e. CD-writer, CD-ROM, 2 HD's and 2 more HD's in RAID format working together ?
    Thanks in advance..  

    But like I said, I do not intend to connect CD-ROMS to the RAID controllers, only HD's - the CD-ROM and CD-Writer are currently connected to the normal IDE controllers and I don't plan on changing that in any case
    My question was whether or not i can add more HD's to my current system by adding them to the RAID IDE's
    simply put, to be 100% clear my question is this -
    will the current configuration work:
    IDE 1 = CD-ROM + HD1
    IDE2 = CD-WRITER + HD2
    RAID IDE1 = HD3
    and will this one work:
    IDE 1 = CD-ROM + HD1
    IDE2 = CD-WRITER + HD2
    RAID IDE1 = HD3
    RAID IDE2 = HD4
    when HD3&4 work in RAID mode
    Thanks again for you help
    RE your suggestion - why not put a CD-ROM and an HD on the same IDE ? that way my HD's are connected to different IDE controllers for better performance

  • Intel raid controller ROM in MSI 875 updated yet?

    Intel recently enabled the raid 1 option for the raid controller in their ICH5R chipset.
    On the Intel website under the "Important information on Intel RAID Option ROM version" section Intel write the following:
    Quote
    In order to fully utilize the new features included in version 3.5 of the Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition, Intel recommends that you first upgrade your system BIOS to one that includes version 3.5 of the Intel RAID Option ROM. You can obtain this system BIOS from your motherboard or system manufacturer.
    The latest bios for my 875P Neo-FIS2R MS-6758 was released 2003-6-26 so I find it hard to believe that the 3.5 raid ROM is included since the software was (officially) released on 7-7-2003.
    Furthermore I still have no raid 1 option when configuring my intel raid controller - only performance arrays can be set up.
    When will MSI release a new bios with the latest Intel raid controller ROM?
    Best regards
    Andreas

    I also humbly await the arrival of the (875P)6758 1.7 Bios update to enable RAID1......Any ideas on when we might get it?...any one?........eeerrrr...how about an ftp site address for a beta bios? anyone?..speak up I can't hear you back there........
    Thanks
    Polecat out

  • MSI MPOWER MAX Z87 - RAID failure after BIOS update (settings reset)

    I use the integrated intel RAID controller to create a 2 disk RAID-0 6TB (2x3TB), but everytime I update the BIOS, there is a RAID failure.
    It does not matter if I use Live Update or the Update BIOS+ME option of the BIOS menu. All settings are lost, and after the boot the RAID controller is deactivated due to that. I go to BIOS right after the auto-reboot and re-enter my settings (RAID instead of AHCI), but the intel controller only sees 1 disk as a RAID member. Recovery option is not active when I enter the controller options (control+I). I always need to delete and recreate the RAID, which of course loses all data.
    Very frustrating!
    Am I doing the update wrong? I know I did it once and settings were not reset, my RAID was kept intact, but I believe it was only 1 time of 4 or 5 updates I did to my MPOWER MAX.

    Hi, thanks for trying to help!
    - I use Windows 8.1.
    - My vga does not support UEFI so I use... legacy mode? (I'm not that familiar with BIOS->UEFI yet, sorry.)
    - According to Intel RST, the RAID HDDs are on ports 2 and 3.
    - This time the update was from 1.80 to 1.90.
    1.70 to 1.80 also resulted in the same problem, but I used LiveUpdate.
    For previous updates, I don't remember but I sometimes I used LiveUpdate, sometimes the BIOS feature.
    I'm pretty sure that only once the RAID was kept intact, and I don't remember the versions or method I used, but I believe I used the BIOS method (don't know if needed BIOS+ME or not), not LiveUpdate.

Maybe you are looking for