Poor performance on RAID 0 with P965 Platinum

Hi guys, I think I'm having problems with my RAID configuration, I have two ST3320620AS of Seagate, and they have these performance in single mode: http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=comparacaokw7.jpg
But when I made a Raid 0 configuration, using the ICH8 controller, my benchmark increase just a little: http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtachraid0fj4.jpg
And the worst point is that generally it becomes worst every time I run this benchmark a second time, putting average read near 100MB/s
I was expecting something like: Average Read: 130MB/s
Burst Speed: 430MB/s
That is, more or less, 90% of the worst bench in a single drive...
Tks for now guys...!!!

Hi guys...
Yeah, it not very, very bad, it is good at all, but I was thinking that using RAID I would reach at least 180% of the speed of the worst disk alone... :(
I tried to find some other benchmarks on Elite Bastards as HenryW said, but I didn't find it... :(
Anyway I found some other benchmarks and realise that my average isn't very good, but my burst is good!!!!!
Other strange thing is that other benchmark tools report other speeds!! It is very strange... :(
And my system seems to be better to.... Anyway if I discover a way to increase the speed I'll post here for everybody...
Thanks Guys....

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Raid 0 on P965 Platinum

Hi
First post for me
I have the following and need to configure a raid; would someone help me?:
Intel core2duo 6400
Msi p965 platinum
(2) Sata II 250gb HDD´s 16 m buffer
(1) sata II 80gb HDD 16m buffer (I got this one as system drive)
2 g GSKILL ddr2 800 ram
I do not know the basics to configur the raid
I will use the pc to work audio (Nuendo, Reason, Kontakt, etc) and video (combustion, etc(HDV)) so I thought I was going to need speed on my drives.
well Thanks
Modiolo

Hi!
Configuring RAID is very easy. Just do as the manual tells you to.
I can copy the manual here now, but that doesn't seem useful. Get your manual >> here << and look up page C-2. There you can find how to configurre RAID. Enter the RAID ROM by hitting Ctrl+I when POST screen appears at system startup.
The rest seems pretty clear to me. If you can't figure out what to do, just ask, okay?
You want speed, then you want a RAID-0 made with your two largest hard drives.
I advice you to install Windows on the smaller disk.
Just a few remarks:
- when building RAID-0, always use two disks of the same size. Not doing so will cost you storage space. The largest disk of the two will be reduced to the size of the smaller one.
- Don't get confused by disks, partitions and RAID-arrays. In short:
One RAID-0 array made out of 2 disks form one large disk. (2x80GB makes 1 160GB disk). This disk can be split up into 4 partitions of 40GB each, or in smaller partitions, whatever you want. The system simply "sees" the RAID-array as one physical disk only.
- When installing Windows, you probably need to hit F6 at Windows Setup start to install a driver to be able to use your SATA-disks.
Now, just give it a try. It's really not very hard.
Good luck!

DVD Burner problem with P965 Platinum

I have had on going issue with my DVD burner. When i try to play or esp burn a DVD the whole PC slows down and i am unable to open or run any other applications. The Burner is connected via IDE cable and i have tried 2 other DVD Burners with all the same result. When i play a DVD the picture jitters and when i burn a DVD the burn rate is about 10 x slower than my other PC. It comes across as if there is a data transfer problem, not sure though.
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MSI P965 Platinum
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Leadtek 8800GTS 640mb G/C
W.D SATA II 320GB HDD
ASUS DRW-1612BL DVD Burner

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cheers

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Following the CPU compatibility list, the motherboard P965 Platinum (#7238, Bios 1.8) supports a Core 2 Quad Q8200 (95 watt TDP).
I have got here a Q8200S (65 watt TDP). Does the board support this CPU as well?
Thank you
ildonaldo

That CPU is not on the CPU-Support list for the P965 Platinum Mainboard. Using the latest BETA BIOS Release may perhaps allow you to use that processor. I do not know of any users that actually tested this. In any case, I would highly recommend you use this processor with a newer board (e.g. P35 or P45 based).

Poor Performance 7.0 Workbook with multiple queries

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I've got the following issue. Our users have workbooks which contain serveral queries on different sheets. (One on each workbook sheet)
When a workbook contains 5 or more queries, the overall workbook performance will decrease drastically. Workbook with 8 or more queries result in time-outs and messages like unsufficient shared memory.
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Thanks!
Cheers,
Ron

Bill,
Tried to make a workbook according to your advise. It certainly makes a difference in workbook size. The new workbook is 50% smaller than the older version based on the standard SAP template.
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Ron

Poor performance horizontal List (TileLayout) with custom ItemRenderer containing a vertical Scroll

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Is there a reason this is not performing well ?
Is there something I can do to improve the performance ?

Thanks for the hints.
Regarding TileLayout vs HorizontalLayout, I haven't seen much difference in performance.
But I did manage to make everything go faster **.
1st: not using the StageText on the TextInput's (changed that).
2nd: there was a font using CFF on the Label fields, which wasn't supported (changed that).
I'm not sure if those are what made the diff, but I'm happier!
**: Might be almost viable like this.
In all, I'm going to have about 7 custom item renderers in the List, but only 1 is visible at the time on screen (taking the whole visible area of the List). Some of the pages (i call them pages in such a case) will have some components that will be more elaborate, like permitting someone to do simple drawing within a region.
Yes, I'm imagining that the List component still will have them in memory and maybe recycle them if he's smart, thus making it heavy whenever it creates them. Would be interesting to see if I can optmize the creation of the itemrenderer instances. I'm still not that keen about using this approach of using a List to support such a user experience.
It would have loved it if the ViewNagivator could better support sliding between Views, but I understand it would require the ViewNavigator to know which View will be the next View, etc.. Maybe something like a ListNavigatorView or something like that
Details for now.
Regarding using a Edit mode, I'll keep that in mind and see if it makes sense in this app and how the user experience will be with such a mode.
Regarding using the HGroup for padding of the TextInput vs using a custom layout or custom component. You probably have a point. I'm kind of new to the Spark world, been using MX since Flex 2 and kind of got scared of the Spark world... No I'm diving head first. Thus, thanks for the hint on that. I'll digg and find some docs about the details on that!
Thanks again!

Windows 2008 R2 - Poor performance of Task Scheduler with script

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I have some reports to make (using macro on an access database) every day. When I launch the command line on interactive mode (cmd windows) the process msaccess use 20% of processing and Excel use 2%. All working fine.
When I launch from the Task Scheduled, msaccess and excel use 0%. Command line and the account are the same.
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Problem with P965 platinum and crucial ballistix tracer 6400

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Quote from: RemusM on 06-May-08, 21:24:24
Aaron is right.
At least for this summer, you should leave them at 5-5-5-15 and 1.85V
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Remus,
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PCMCIA gigabit cards are poor performance with lenovo n100

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I have a lenovo n100 and I tried two pcmcia gigabit cards (Dlink DGE 660TD and TRENDnet TEG-PCBUSR) with very poor performance. I tested with iperf (cat6 cable with Siemens Sinergie S300 server) and Windows, linux, normal config, tunned tcp parameters, the outcome is always the same, 200Mbits upload and 76Mbits for download.
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lead_org wrote:
There is two type of PCMCIA, one is running at 16 bit another is running through 32 bit.
You can achieve the gigabit requirements quite comfortably with the 32 bit, but i think the 16 bit version is not going to be enough for the gigabit ethernet.
Running at Mhz??? I don't understand how that is anything to with data bandwidth.
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Poor Overclock With E4300 And P965 Platinum

I have recently built a Core 2 Duo system based around the P965 Platinum motherboard which I bought based on the excellent reviews it appears to have received.
My system is as follows:
Core 2 Duo E4300 with standard cooler
MSI P965 Platinum
ATI X1900GT
1GB Kingston DDR2 667 Valueram
2xWD 160GB Hard Disks in RAID 0
Antec Sonata II case with Smartpower 450W PSU.
I initially tried overclocking to 266FSB which worked flawlessly. All I did was slow the memory slightly so it wasnt overclocked. It worked beautifully, including Speedstep functionality and in SiSoft Sandra beat the E6600 comfortably which runs at a similar speed.
As soon as I try to go above this speed the system wont boot and all the fans run at their maximum. It doesnt even POST.
I have tried disabling speedstep etc, and increased voltages slightly. I also slowed the memory further so it is running at 1:1 ratio (532MHz at 266FSB), but I still cannot get past 266FSB.
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I also note that the board does the strange start-stop thing from cold, and if it has been left off for a long time the screen is scrambled when I start it. Any suggestions on these?
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James

Quote from: EagleDM on 07-February-07, 07:12:21
You're not alone..
My fighting with this motherboard began the first moment I put my brand new E4300.
This is the absoluto WORST motherboard in the Galaxy for the E4300, and the reasons, I should explain shortly (I hope someone at MSI is reading this and DO SOMETHING about it)
The short version:
There are 3 straps for configuring the speed of each processor on the Intel family.
the 800 strap, the 1066 strap and the 1333 strap, these are the straps working on the 4000 and 6000 family of core2
When you're in the 1066 strap, the motherboard configures the PCI lock correctly and you can safely clock the board from 266 to even 370 or 450 in some cases with the latest BIOS and good MCP voltage... but.
When you're in the 800 strap like me (all E4300 are in the 800 strap) the motherboard incorrectly identify the information and it simply DOES NOT LOCK the PCI bus speed correctly...
Conclusion: when you excede 266 Mhz speed you already have the PCI clocked so far away from the standard speed, that really is a divine grace that the motherboard boots.. and if it does.. you will have a corrupted HD or you may even lost some PCI card to this.. so... it is really DANGEROUS to set any speed higher than 240-250 for this strap on this motherboard.
Sure, there are alternatives you may ask... yes, all gigabyte motherboards and the P5B series correcly identify the 800 strap (200fsb) and Lock the PCI so you can overclock to hell with that one... not on this motherboard.
There IS an alternative... the alternative is to PIN MOD the processor (remember the Conductive Pen?) to FORCE the motherboard into believeing that you have in effect, a 266 (1066Mhz) processor and then, configuring the strap accordingly..
well... no.
It works on the 99% of the motherboards I tried (yes, I did that mod succesfully and unlocked the 1066 strap, booting with 266 bus on a P5B, a 680i SLI and even a 570 SLI motherboard, with a MINIM clock of 3.2Ghz, what do you think?)
BUT
and is a very great BUT, NOT with this motherboard.
For some brilliant idea of the MSI engineers, the motherboard start up at 266Mhz and then it clearly tells you that this is in fact a 200Mhz processor, then, a BIOS halt ocurred and you have a corrupted CMOS setup, the only way to stop from losing the motherboard is to install another processor and re-flash it...
so even forcing a 1066Mhz strap is a NO GO with this motherboard that REFUSES to take information from the SAME PINOUT the rest of the motherboard makers follow to regulation and in fact WORKS and reads the information from the clock the processor gives, so.. we are stuck with a NO GO situation.
The latest bios i tried is the 3.6 bios (BETA) and this problem persist.
So, with the P965 the long story became short at the end, we are stuck in the WORST of the Galaxy motherboard for E4300 overclocking till MSI at least give us the freedom to choose the strap or just use the one that is detected. Until then... that's it.
I hope this message reaches MSI, I work for a hardware page that do reviews and you can imagine what I should say about this motherboard....
Daniel / MaximoPC
www.maximopc.org
Thanks, that does make sense based on what I am seeing.
Is there a way of confirming the PCI bus speed is increasing with clock speed?
This seems like it should be simple for MSI to sort?

P965 Platinum, Vista, and Raid

I spent a good couple of hours skimming the boards yesterday trying to set up my two new 320 SATAII hard drives in a RAID array. I ran into a ton of trouble, but then finally figured out part/all of my problem and got things working. I figure this information will be helpful for anyone who is trying to do the same. I'll post the most useful links I found at the end of this post as well...
heres what i'm working with:
MSI P965 Platinum
2gb OCZ DDR2 800MHZ 2 dimm kit
36.7 WD Raptor SATAII (as system drive)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Sapphire X1650 PRO 512MB PCI-Express
Antec TruePower TRIO 650 650W Power Supply
promise technology ultra ata 133 tx2 (the source of a ton of trouble)
originally i had vista ultimate x64 installed on a 36.7 gb raptor that was performing ok (once i did the extremetech suggested reghacks for lowdiskspace and 8.3ntfsfilenames), but not as well as my friends new computer with a blazing fast 500 gb stripe.
my bios was configured as such:
on board raid controller: ide
on chip ata devices -> sata 1 config: enhanced
...configure sata 1 as: ide
...sata 2 configuration: enabled
i shut down the computer, and changed
on chip ata devices -> configure sata 1 as: raid
then i was able to get into the raid setup with Ctrl + I, and set up my array. Here's where I ran into my first problem. I figured I wanted a raid 0 because I don't care soooo much about my data being lost, and i have never had a hard drive die on me (knock on wood) in the past 8 years (guardian angel). So setting up my array was working fine, except for i hadn't anticipated that i would have to choose an ideal strip size. The board suggests 128k, but after much deliberation I decided since I wanted the speed benefit for my OS and programs, I wanted 32k strip size; but having a 640 stripe for just the OS and programs seems huge, so out of curiosity I tried setting up two raid arrays (both across the same drives). The first was a 100gb raid 0 with a 32k strip size and the second was a 496.2 raid 0 with a 128k strip size. This worked fine, but then I got to thinking... can I set up the 100 gb array as a mirror? If so, then I get the best of both worlds since I can secure all my OS/settings/programs/documents, but I'll have a super fast (respectively) 400 gb drive for ephemeral memory and expendable data (replaceable stuff like ripped dvds, downloaded music and programs, downloaded anything...). This would all be at the expense of 100 gb which certainly seems worth it at this case because I wouldn't have to worry about the possibility of losing all my data like everyone seems to cry about all over the internet when talking about raid stripes. So i set it up, this worked fine... next step boot into vist ultimate and start installation.
Here proved my most annoying step, as my first problem occurred when I couldn't find the dvd/cd drive in the boot sequence menu. I saw the usb card reader drives, my raid arrays, and my raptor... but no dvd/cd drive (of which I had two connected). After scouring the web about that darned Jmicron chip, it appeared as if the bios cannot see the PATA drives on this board and I would have to try pressing F8 at the jmicron bios screen. THIS IS COMPLETE MISINFORMATION.
As stupid as it is, the real problem is that the boot sequence only displays 6 (i think it's 6) bootable media, and if you have anything else it just doesn't show it. This gave me the impression that the bios was unaware of my cd/dvd drives connected to the IDE controller. As soon as I unplugged my card reader, the dvd/cd drives appeared in the boot sequence... thank gawd because...
i had tried plugging my dvd/cd drives into the promise ata controller (which i already know lacks a vista 64bit compatible driver), which actually allowed me to boot into the vista setup whereupon I was asked (I did NOT have to press F6, even though everyone seems to think they have to) to install the driver for the dvd/cd controller (I assumed and was right that it was asking for the promise ata controller driver). I put the most recent drivers from their website on a usb stick, plugged it in, and the driver worked and then setup was able to see my dvd/cd drives (which is weird because how did I get to that point if it couldn't?).
Then setup said it couldn't find any drives, so I figured the problem was with the driver for the ICH8R intel raid controller. I downloaded drivers from MSI's website, intel's, and a bunch of others, and NONE of them worked. Setup would install the drivers, but it still could not see any hard drives attached to it. I'm not sure what caused this problem, but my best guess is that it had to do with the promise card being plugged in.
I gave up on that and figured I'd try something else, maybe the promise card was causing the problem. So I tried changing the ports that all my sata drives are plugged into. The two new 320's were on 0 and 2, and I also had a drive on 3 4 and 5. I read somewhere that intel had some array issues on 0 1 and 2, so I tried setting my 320's on 4 and 5 and moved my other drives around it. This is also when I had the idea to remove my card reader and pull out the ultra ata 133 tx2 card.
I was able then to see the dvd/cdrom in the boot sequence, put it first, and boot into vista setup. VISTA ULTIMATE DID NOT ASK ME FOR ANY DRIVERS AT THIS POINT. I'm not sure if it was the sata ports I had my drives plugged into or not, but at this point vista setup saw all my drives and I chose the 100 gb array and installation went smoothly.
Excellent… now I just have to install photoshop and see if it loads in 4 seconds like on my friends new computer with the stripe. If not, then I'll probably just cry.
Hopefully I've covered enough of the keywords in this description that anyone who has this problem will easily find this page. Remember:
JMICRON IDE DEVICES CAN BE SEEN BY THE BIOS
VISTA SETUP DOES NOT NEED ANY ADDITIONAL DRIVERS TO INTERACT WITH THE RAID CONTROLLER
SORRY IF THIS WAS A TON OF INFORMATION BUT AFTER ALL THE TIME I SPENT TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT I FEEL LIKE NO ONE HAD POSTED A FULL BLOWN SOLUTION
Hope this was helpful

I have the very same issue except two things. When I try to see why it will not load the Array I find that the first drive (Maxtor 6V160E0) is red and considered to be bad. Did you happen to notice if your system showed the same thing?
I have moved the drives around and it still corrupts the Maxtor 6V160E0. I have not tried to move them to the end of the SATA connections. I will try that and see what happens.
Other thing was the JMicron would see my NEC DVDRW, but thought it was a ACSI and it would only read at 12X. It even stated that in the OS. I then was told by the Techs that they have not had alot of luck with NEC drives. So, I purchased a LiteOn SATA II DVDRW, connected it to the JMicron SATA connector and it came alive. I then found it to turn out worthless DVD's and CD's. Not even that Drive would read them after burning. I got so ticked about the JMicron I just shut it off in the BIOS. I hooked up the drive to the #4 port and whala, no more problems with burn. Now it reads, writes, and re-writes at the stated speeds (also I needed to update the firmware twice since I purchase the drive. The MS updates did something to it and the new firmware fixed it.). I have never been able to get a drive to work correctly on the JMicron no matter who made it.
I sure hope that MSI has scraped any board that will ever use that controller. JMircon is not my friend!
I am going to get 2 more SATA II drives and try this without having to backup all my data.

BSOD / Lock-ups with new Q9550 in P965 Platinum

MSI P965 Platinum Mobo
E6700 CPU, recently upgraded to Q9550
Zalman Cu heat sink + fan.
4GB Corsair 6400 C4 (4-4-4-12 800 MHz)
MSI 8800 GTX graphics
Auzentech Meridian sound
2 x 36GB Raptors RAID 0 (System)
2 x 250 GB Western Digital Caviar WD2500KS RAID 0 (Data)
Corsair HX620W PSU
All drives attached to the ICH8R Intel RAID controller.
BIOS: 1.8 (latest)
Vista Ultimate 32 bit SP1 + latest patches
Intel Matrix Storage Manager v8.6
Hi all,
I have run with the above hardware specification since Jan 2007 without experiencing any hardware problems at all. Two weeks ago I upgraded the CPU from an E6700 dual-core to a Q9550 quad. I was a little concerned about doing this, because the P965 supports a max FSB of 1066 and the Q9550 is rated at 1333. In any case, I Googled around and found that some flavours of the Q9550 had been tested on my mobo (http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-MSI/P965_Platinum_(MS-238).html) and also MSI list the Q9550 stepping C1 as being compatible so I took the leap.
Early indications were good - Vista detected the new chip and I rebooted when prompted. However, in the space of two weeks I have experienced around one or two BSODs per day STOP 101 or 124 codes. Hmm!
I have switched back to my trusty E6700 chip and the system is then as solid as a rock. I see 3 possibilities here:
1.The Mobo website (MSI P965) lists the Q9550 stepping type C1 as being compatible. There is no mention of E0 or C0 which seem to be the other two variants. I have no idea which stepping type mine is as the product numbers for the Q9550 chips are all the same (EU80569PJ073N or BX80569Q9550) regardless of whether it is a C0, C1 or E0 stepping. Is there any way to tell which on I have - I tried with CPU-Z but didn't spot the stepping type? In any case, could this be the problem or am I off-base?
2. It's possible I have a faulty chip. How likely is this do you think? I could ask for a swap with Novatech but could be back in the same boat, and they will reject the return unless it is 'proven faulty'.
3. I need to mod the clocking on my rig to support the Q9550. If so, can anyone advise on what I should do?
I doubt the problem is caused by an OS factor as I ran some tested in an XP pre-boot environmet and still got the lock-ups.
What should I do? i don't really want to ebay the chip at say a £50 loss if i can help it.
Many thanks in advance.

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I have no idea which stepping type mine is as the product numbers for the Q9550 chips are all the same (EU80569PJ073N or BX80569Q9550) regardless of whether it is a C0, C1 or E0 stepping.
No, the OEM Order Code is different, and the sSpec Number also.
Have a look at these links
Q9550=SLAWQ=C1--> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAWQ
Q9550=SLB8V=E0 --> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB8V

Poor performance on RAID 0 with P965 Platinum

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