Pt880 neo sata raid o corruption

i have a pt880 neo with a celeron d cpu 2 raptors in raid 0 using onboard raid .
runs great till i overclock , at 150 fsb raid array corrupts , using bios 1.5 .
any ideas ? maybe promise pci raid card or another mother board?.
what other motherboard chipset with on board raid will overclock.
i chose the celeron d as it is suppose to be a good overclocker 3.6 gig ?.
and i want to run the raptors in raid 0 for speed.
the pci card raid will be slower than onboard?.
thanks

I am using a celeron d based on the prescott , power supply is raidmax 420 watt.
i am certain that tha via sata raid controler can not handle the overclock it is not in the pci bridge and i don;t think it is or can be locked , used sata drives no raid same corruption at 150 fsb . when using pata drives no problems overclocks to 190 fsb today .
i want to use the raptors in raid 0 , so what m/b with onboard raid sata will work?
i don't want to change m/b only to have new one have same problem , also don't want pci raid runnig at 33mhz , whats the point , would like onboard raid that will allow overclock>?
thanks for everyone help
now help with selection of new motherboard.

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PT8 Neo SATA Raid Configuration Utility

I recently upgraded my system which was running a AMD athlon 1.2GHZ processor and only 128mb SDRAM. The system was stable and running windows XP home edition.
I upgraded to the PT8 Neo motherboard which supports SATA hard drives. I was expecting a dramatic increase when I upgraded my system to the new P4 800mhz FSB 3.0GB processor and 512MB DDR 400mhz ram.
I was still using my WD 60GB EIDE Hard Drive when I upgraded the Motherboard, Ram, & Processor. The upgrade went smoothly and system worked without glitches.
Unsatisfied with the increase in performance, I also purchased a Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000 RPM hard drive using the SATA interface cable.
I have updated the bios of the motherboard and updated the driver for the SATA raid controller using Live Bios Update 3.
I am having 2 problems:
Problem 1. When I enter the bios for the SATA Raid configuration utility after the initial post by pressing , none of the selections are available. I move my arrows down but nothing highlights and I can't select anything in the configuration utility except ESC key to exit.
The SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS.
The initial SATA Raid Configuration displayed immediately after the post, does show the hard drive.
I want to be able to boot from the new WD Raptor Hard Drive and transfer all the existing files from the IDE Drive to the SATA drive, but I can't seem to get the drive to initialize, format, fdisk, etc.
Problem 2. Windows XP doesn't have enough resources available to activate the VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller in Device Manager. It shows a Yellow ! and returns a code 12 (This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use). I have tried disabling several items in the bios including LAN support, On board Sound but nothing seems to work.
Keep in mind, I have downloaded the latest bios, latest drivers, etc.
The rest of the components on my machine are as follows:
1. Custom Built Computer (Non-Branded)
2. 60GB Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE Hard Drive on IDE0 (Master)
3. DVD Rom on IDE0 (Slave)
4. MSI 52x32x52x CDRW on IDE1 (Master)
5. Zip 100 IDE Drive (Slave)
6. Floppy Drive
7. Pentium 4 3.0GZ 800mhz FSB
8. 512mb DDR 400mhz Memory
9. ATI All-In-Wonder PCI Video Card
10. SIIG Firewire controller
I have already tried removing the SIIG firewire controller thinking that it was getting in the way of available resources. That did not work.
I have invested alot of money on this system, I wanted the best and have always used MSI motherboards because of their stability and reliability.
Please help as soon as possible.
Thanks

first off you are only using one SATA so no option are avalible in Raid Bios
in order to install windows the safe way detach your 60ata hrad drive plug in the raptor and install windows then Press F6 at the begining the you will have to the SATA diskett in the floppy drive in stall SATA windows drivers continue with install.
once you are fished Windows, drivers then shut down and plug in your ATA hard drive turn on your PC enter the bios navagate to the Advanceed BIOS Features/Boot Sequency selected your SATA raid drive as First boot then CD roms as second. then your done boot in to windows

K8n Neo Platinum non-booting SATA RAID setup question

I've spent several hours searching an reading trying to find out how to setup a non-bootable SATA RAID. All I can seem to find are posts about bootable installs using F6 and the drivers on a floppy.
I have setup the disks in the bios an defined the array an everything checks out. But when I boot back to WindowsXP it only sees 2 drives that it cannot find drivers for even if I point it to the correct Nvidia directory. I attempted to just reinstall the drivers but that caused a Bluescreen from a corrupt driver file that I then had to go into the repair console to copy from a floppy.
The manual an a couple of posts here say that I should go into Admin Tools-> Disk Management an it will then popup a wizard. But I'm not getting that far.
I currently have the disks on SATA 1 and 2 but will move them tonite because I've read its better for them to be on 3 and 4.
This is on a K8N Neo Platinum 7030 on Windows XP SP2. If anyone could help or just point me to where I can find help it would be greatly appreciated.

When the raid controller is enabled in bios and you start windows you can install the nvidia raid driver
from within windows .
Use the add hardware wizard from control panel .
Start the add-hw wizard .
Yes i have connected the hw - next .
Add a new hw device (bottom of the list ) -next .
Install the hw that i select manually from a list - next .
Select scsi/raid controller - next .
Choose have disk .
Then browse for the location of the nvraid.inf file

PT880 Neo-LSR/WD740GD SATA Incompatibility?

I have a new PT880 Neo-LSR and a new WD740GD Raptor hard drive, and the motherboard will not properly recogize the hard drive when it is connected to the SATA connector. I've had no problem getting into the bios, or booting from a CD or floppy. In fact, I successfully flashed it from a floppy with the latest bios to see if that would resolve the HD recognition problem, but no luck. When I try to install Windows XP, the installation fails every time because no hard drive is detected.
I ran a Western Digital hard drive test from a floppy, and it incorrectly recognized the WD740GD as a WD1200BB. I went ahead and tried to run the test, but the test failed due to some undefined problem with the hard drive.
The remainder of the new system components include a Pentium 2.4A Prescott, 2 256 meg sticks of Kingmax PC-3500 SuperRAM, Antec TRUE430 PS and ATI Radeon 9700 video card.
I've assembled about a dozen computers from scratch, and have never been stumped like this! I can't figure out if it's a motherboard problem, a hard drive problem, a compatibility problem or a problem of me missing a setting somewhere.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions!
1) I am not overclocking. I'm trying to get the computer to run for the first time with all default settings.
2) I have hit F6 at the start of Windows XP install, and installed the drivers from the included diskette (G72-VASA020 VOA SATA RAID driver for VT6420/VT8237). From the diskette, I've tried to install the SATA RAID driver for Windows XP and the PATA IDE driver individually and together. No matter which one I use, or if I use both, same problem: Windows XP installation does not recognize that a hard drive is installed. I've even installed the two drivers in different order. I've tried every option. Hard drive still not recognized.
3) There are only 2 SATA connectors on the mainboard -- SATA1 and SATA2. I've tried both connectors, and neither works. I even bought a new SATA cable in case the one I received with the MB was bad. Same problem with new cable -- Windows XP installation does not recognize that a hard drive is installed. The AMI bios does not offer SATA Enhanced or Native options nor SATA+PATA combination. It offers "Onboard PATA-IDE," which must be enabled for the CD drive to be recognized; "Internal SATA Controller," which must be enabled for the HD connected to 1 of the 2 SATA connectors to be recognized; and, under "Internal SATA Controller," "Boot ROM Function," which seems to make no difference whether it's enabled or disabled.
I've probably tried to install Windows XP now about 25 times with various combinations of bios options and drivers. A couple of times I've actually gotten to the point where I got to agree with the Microsoft agreement. But the window that it took me to said that I could not install Windows XP on the hard drive that had been identified. There was no option given to format the HD. As I mentioned previously, it still mistakenly thinks that the hard drive is a WD1200BB instead of the correct WD740GD Raptor. But it won't let me do anything with the HD.
Does anyone have any experience starting up the PT880 Neo-LSR with any SATA hard drive attached? The reason I ask is because I want to know if it correctly identified your hard drive on the initial bootup before you even attempted to install an operating system. As I've said, mine incorrectly identifies the hard drive some of the time upon bootup, and some of the time it does not identify any hard drive at all. As far as I know, a hard drive connected to a SATA connector should be properly recognized on bootup.

PT880 Neo-FSR not booting from SATA device

Hi everybody!
MSI PT880 Neo-FSR http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=608
As read on the topic subject, I'm having trouble trying to boot up using my new SATA DVD-RW. This device works perfect while running Windows XP on my PC, but when I try to boot from it, I simply can't.
My PT880 Neo-FSR mobo is running the latest avalaible BIOS version (2.0) and Internal SATA controller and SATA boot ROM function are enabled. Looking inside the booting options, I just can't set my SATA DVD-RW as a valid device for booting up (I only see my IDE HDDs, FDD and LAN as booting options).
This is my first time triying to boot up from this SATA device and the first time I realized that I can actually use it for anything but booting, which is so weird! I even tried installing this device on my brother's PC and booted up succesfully there, so my mobo is the problem here.
If you're asking yourselves how I installed Win XP on this PC with no CD/DVD booting: My former IDE DVD-RW is now my sister's, so I kept previously instalation and just changed devices.
I need to run some utlities from a boot-CD and re-install Windows on this PC real soon, so I'd appreciate some help.
P.S. I tried to do my best with my 'rusty' English, so I hope you could fully understad what I've written above.

Quote from: Henry on 03-September-08, 14:26:24
Are you saying it does work but you simply can't boot from it? Have you tried by using the F11 boot menu?
Yes! This device has been working great, but the only problem I get is when I try to use it for booting.
I alredy tried using the F11 boot menu and nothing happened... It's so weird!

K8N Neo Platinum nf3 250Gb SATA RAID question?

Hi all I'm ready to make the move to an AMD A64 setup from my currnet P4.
You all know what a tough job it is to find the right motherboard for an A64
After much research I think the K8N Neo Platinum is the board for me, but there's one question I can't find an answer too. So I'm turning to this forum. Thanks much for any help.
I currently run a dual RAID"0" setup. Two WD360 Raptors as boot array off the Si3114 on-board controller and two WD740 Raptors as a game \ power apps storage array off the ICH5R southbridge.
My question is; Is it possible to run this drive setup off the K8N Neo Platinum's 4 SATA controllers? Two seperate RAID"0" arrays with one bootable.
thank you-Mike

I decided to go with a S939 instead....I know me...and I'll want one as soon as I got the S754 up & running
I ordered a K8T NEO2-FIR...Its got the on-board Promise SATA RAID controller + on chip VIA RAID...so it should suit my drive needs perfectly

875p NEO-LSR SATA RAID problems

Just got a machine build today. Every so often the Intel SATA Raid bios reports one of the drives are missing. (Same drive everytime i think) If I press Ctrl+Alt+Del it shows back up and I can continue booting windows. I have bios v1.6. It seems to happen when I let the machin sit idle for a while then reboot. If I reboot as soon as I get into windows it will not reproduce. It has happened about 4 time now.
Specs
P4 3.0c
Corsaird TwinX LL PC3200 (2x256MB)
Gigabyte R9800 Pro 128MB
2 Seagate SATA 160GB Drives
350W Antec PSU
Aopen CDRW/DVD
WinXP Pro SP1

Update.
I tried the drives in my IC7 and the problem went away. I swapped power supplies (used the enermax from my IC7 system) and the problem still occurred. Is there anything else I can try before I request an RMA?
Thanks, Justin

Neo2 BIOS 3.3 Disables VIA SATA Raid AND Promise IDE3 RESOLVED

I recently corrputed my VIA SATA Raid installation of Windows by overclocking my FSB. I have since read that you can't do this, and I definitely learned my lesson.
But in the process of attempting recovery, I upgraded my BIOS from 1.8 to 3.3. (I know, didn't really keep up on that =)
Now I have a strange problem. I can't have both the Promise controller ENABLED as well as the VIA SATA enabled. During boot, if the Promise controller is Enabled and has an IDE HDD plugged into it (important!) which was created by this Promise controller a few months ago, the VIA SATA section of BIOS boot does not show up. It will not even show the text where it is looking for attached drives. Herein lies the problem.
Here are a few scenarios. If I unplug all drives from the Promise IDE connector, but leave it enabled, it will proceed to the VIA section of BIOS boot right after the Realtek initialization. It will also show the VIA section of the BIOS boot if I disable the Promise in the Integrated Devices section of the BIOS.
But, if I leave a single drive connected to the Promise IDE connector, and have them both enabled in BIOS (VIA "On Board" is ENABLED and Promise is set to RAID) then the only boot options I see are the Promise section, where it will correctly identify the IDE drive connected to it (remember, it was made a drive by that very same controller chip a few months back) and then proceed to the Realtek initialization. After that, there is no VIA section at all.
Interestingly, if you hit DEL to go into setup anytime during the scenario where there is no VIA init section, the VIA SATA drives do not show up on the Boot Sequence at all. It is like it is not there at all, which I suspected since it wasn't showing up during BIOS boot.
SO. This leaves me with the unfortunate scenario of not being able to use one or the other. The only thing I can think of is that I updated my BIOS revision. Please, is someone able to duplicate this, or is there a known workaround? I would hate to lose half of the functionality of the mboard as far as additional controllers goes.
I will add my config below just in case that helps:
K8T Neo 2
AMD 3500+
2 x Kingston 3500 HyperX 512
Antec NeoPower 480w
2 x 36GB Raptors SATA (Drives I am attempting to run on VIA for boot)
2 x IDE drives (Maxtor 250GB and WD 160GB) on the Promise IDE 3 channel (sometimes anyway =)
2 x CD ROM on IDE 1
2 x IDE drives (WD 60GB and WD 120GB) on IDE 2 (I leave these unplugged during windows install and T/S'ing this problem)
ATI Radeon X800XTPE
I hope that is all you would need to know about the box.
Thanks for your ideas.

Quote from: Tiresmoke on 09-April-05, 22:52:31
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=608&kind=1
I trslly would suggest first though to do a Bios reset and then re-examine the problems if any and let's see if we can track and sort them out.
The first thing I found odd is that you claimed to have updated the Bios from 1.8 and there is no version 1.8 for the Neo2's. Their Bios range starts at 3.0 and that is the lowest number you should have been at.
Second let's take a look at your Bios settings. Typically when you flash a Bios you have to go back and reset the bios again to what is needed for your rig. Otherwise the default settings may not allow you to run your system at all properly.
I appreciate your looking at this with me Tiresmoke. You must be right on the previous BIOS version. It is my original Neo that I am thinking of for 1.8. Now that you mention that, I don't know what the previous BIOS version is, but I am now going to assume it was the original.
Tracking through it though has been strange. Another change I noticed is that my RAM would no longer run at DDR400. It was stuck at DDR333 no matter what I did. I had to move the Kingston 3500 that I had from 1/2 to 1/3 to get it to work. Something must have changed in the BIOS update to make that happen, as it was running fine before that, and differences in operation at that level have nothing to do with whether I corrupted my RAID based windows install.
The boot order is as follows:
1) Promise Controller (Press CTRL + F)
2) Realtek LAN Boot (Press SHIFT + F10)
>
3) VIA RAID Controller.
It is #3 that will not show up if there is a drive attached to the Promise controller. This has got me completely stumped. Is there a direction we can go with T/S'ing this?
Thx.

K8T Neo-FIS2R - raid 1 refused by Win2K

Hi,
I had K8T Neo-FIS2R for some time, working flawless. I had 1 ATA drive (Maxtor 120GB, 8MB) on a VIA controller. Then I decided to buy another similar one ATA HD, and create a raid 1 array (ATA+ATA) on Promise controler, with existing Win2K SP4 instalation.
Everything went smoothly, creation of array and image on second HD. Then reboot, Windows start loading... and suddenly BSOD. Message: "If this is your first time seeing this message...check for viruses...corrupted HD...blah blah".
Tried loading again and again - same situation.
Then I discarded array, rebooted, and created it again. Same problems. And headache & rage.
Few days later, I had a possibility to borrow a new SATA Maxtor 120GB drive, and try with ATA + SATA raid 1 combination. Done everything from the beggining, creating of array and image, at the end...again BSOD with the same message. 100% identical like in 2xATA combination.
I thought that maybe the problem is in "original" ATA HD, so i tried with another combination: second (new) ATA HD from first situation (image of original HD was still on it, but with discarded array), anda SATA from second as a "slave" (so, this one is deleted in creating of this array). Same, same, same... Needless to say, at the end I tried with SATA as "master" and ATA as "slave". No progress.
BIOS and all drivers were/are up-to-date. All HD`s work OK in a "no raid" situation, on both controllers.
I have searched this forum, but didn`t find similar problem. If you have some ideas/suggestions/solutions, you will be a hero, for saving a one young man`s life
Thanks in advance,
Buca,
Belgrade, Serbia

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Originally posted by Tiresmoke
Promise ATA raid can only work though the Promise ports which in the case of ATA or Ultra ATA drives would be IDE3 port. Then you must have Promise Raid turn on in the Pheriferals menu in Bios as well as set up under the Promise Raid section that will come up directly after post.
You will need to read the Promise Ademdum manual that came along with the regular user manual for setup details.
Thanks for trying to help, but I have done that all. I can create a raid array with ATA drives only on Promise...

PT880 Neo bluescreening after S1 or S3 sleep

Hi guys,
This is my first forum post, well ... ever, so bear with me if I forget anything important. I thought that I could work my way through this problem by myself but this is above and beyond my knowledge, so...
I bought my PT880 M/B a couple of months ago and initially had some problems booting off of my 2x80GB RAID drives, which weren't recognized as bootable for some reason. So I stuck my 20GB IDE HDD in the system and booted from that and it was working fairly well until I made the mistake of updating to the v1.4 BIOS from v1.1.
I started experiencing random crashes and blue screens, generally with the IRQ_NOT_EQUAL error. This always occured after a period of system idleness, esp. but not always when coming out of sleep mode. I disabled S3 sleep and just went on S1 but no go. I reconnected my 20GB HD as a master on the primary channel and my DVD-RW as slave, no secondary channel to eliminate any possible confusion, as per Microsoft's advice:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330100&Product=winxp
This resulted in 50% less errors. When the errors occur it specifies my RAID drives (D:). I remember reading somewhere that the RAID chip on the PT880 has trouble with Seagate HDD's, could this be the problem? Is it failing some sort of SeaTools test on coming out of S1? Please help! My patience and knowledge are exhausted and I am beginning to look longingly at my friend's (functioning) Mac.

PT880 Neo is known for it's problems with the SATA drives in some of the BIOS version.
I've the Beta version of the BIOS v1.53 which solves most of the SATA problems that members faced with this mobo.
Please kindly send me a PM with your valid email address if you wished to try out the Beta BIOS.

PT880-Neo, Won't run in Dual, only Single mode

I have two 512 pairs of RAM (DDRAM 512M|PC-3200 991093 MUSHKIN R) that won't show up in CPU-Z or the POST message as running in Dual mode. It'll only show in single mode. I've tried every combination of slots (i.e. 1 & 3, 2 & 4, etc, etc) to no avail. I've also tried adjusting the BIOS to specify dual channel as well as letting it "auto" adjust. I've tried changing the RAM ratio's 1:1, 5:4, etc with all of the above combinations. Any suggestions would be appreciated....
PS. Bought the board two weeks ago. Haven't checked to see if there is a BIOS update. Don't see that as a reason it won't work since it ships as a Dual DDR 3200 compatible board.
My rig:
PT880-Neo LSR
Intel 2.4A Prescott (stock fan/heatsink)
2 Mushkin 512 DDR PC3200
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
WD 74G 10k Raptor SATA 8mb
Hitachi 160GB SATA 8mb
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Antec True430 430W PSU (+5V@36A, +3.3V@28A, +12V@20A, [email protected], -12V@1A, +5VSB@2A)
Large Server Case (6 fans)
18.1" Gateway LCD
Logitech Z-680, 500W 5.1

During bootup, did you see "Dual Channel Liner Mode" or "Single Channel Virtual Mode" on the bootup screen?

K9 NEO and RAID

Hi All,
I have some major problems trying to set up RAID on my K9 Neo V1.0. Heres my setup:
K9 Neo 7260 v1.0 (AMD)
AMI BIOS v02.59
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit
nVidia chipset 550 drivers v15.58
1x Segate 1TB HDD (Boot drive)
2x Western Digital RED 2TB (intended for data)
I have the two WD drives set up in RAID1. To do this, I have connected both drives to SATA 1. I have enabled nVidia RAID in the BIOS and enabled it on SATA 1 Primary and Secondary. I created the array using the RAID menu on boot, with type set to 'Mirror'.
On first boot I can enter the Disk Management utility in Windows 7, and initialise and format the single 2TB HDD that is presented. I now have a single 2TB drive that I can copy data to.
However, on reboot my problems begin. First off, the RAID menu warns that both channel 0 and channel 1 drives are Degraded. If I allow the boot to continue, the new drive is still visible in Windows, but when I attempt to access it Windows asks me to format it.
Now the strange part begins. I reboot again, and enter the RAID menu. I select to Rebuild the array. Nothing appears to happen and I am put back to the RAID array menu.
Now I exit the menu and allow the system to boot again. This time, my 2TB drive is back and accessible again. It now appears to be accessible each time I boot, despite the Degraded warning every time.
I have tried to create a software RAID array in Windows 7 using these disks, but I get a semaphore timeout error each time I try.
What am I doing wrong? Is this arrangement possible on a K9 Neo (I know its a relatively old board now)? I can't rely on the array as it stands, and there appears to be no other way of setting up RAID on my system.
The actual size of the WD disks is 1.81TB (2,000,396,742,656 bytes).
Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.

If the problem is what I think, it is because the is no native AHCI support on these older nvidia boards.
It might work if you set up you 2x 2TB drives as SATA RAID-0(SATA port#0 and SATA port#1), including boot enabled for the array in RAID BIOS.
You can partition a section of the RAID for OS, during Windows install.
Or set up the single 1TB drive as a single drive RAID-0 on SATA port # 0, e.g 64k stripe.
Then have the 2x2TB drives as a second SATA RAID-0 on ports #2 & #3.

Nforce3 raid sata raid driver

Hi everyone...
I have a k7n2 Delta 2 board and have installed everything...but noticed the Sata Raid driver floppy that came with it has become corrupted (probably by me)
Anyway...does anyone know where I can download any Nforce3 sata raid drives from the web (that are reliable)
I am running windows XP Pro
PS. can anyone also tell me is their a certain way to install them and if it would matter which version number to install (sorry just a bit of a computer newbie)
thanks in advance

menace, why did you start a new post when this topic had your answers? i removed your other topic
as sharp says, copy the contents of the IDE folder to a floppy (leaving out the Raidtool sub-folder). note that if you are only using a single SATA drive, you do not need this floppy to install windows, it is only if you are installing onto a RAID array

MSI-7043 (PT880 NEO-FSR) Boot Problem

I just installed this motherboard which I purchased on eBay from someone who swears it was working fine before.
I installed it in the following configuration:
MSI-7043 PT880 NEO-FSR Motherboard (Rev. 2.0) with BIOS version 2.0
RaidMax Scorpio case with a 520-Watt RaidMax Power Supply (its older, but digital P/S tester says everything is OK)
2x1Gig SuperTalent DDR400 RAM <- Was working fine in Compaq PC
Intel P4 2.4Ghz Prescott CPU (FSB533) <- Was working fine in Compaq PC
ThermalTake TR2-M12 CPU cooler <- New
LG DVD-RW Lightscribe 22x IDE Drive <- New 2 weeks ago, was working fine in Compaq PC
Seagate 320 Gig IDE Drive <- 2 Monthes old, was working fine in Compaq PC
(Drive is partitioned 1-250Gig Bootable & 1-70Gig)
Chaintech Nvidia FX5200 AGP Video Card <- Worked fine in Compaq PC
High quality round 80-pin IDE cables
No SATA drives installed at all
The system POST's fine and recognizes all installed drives, but only occasionally will boot to CD-ROM, and will never boot to hard disk, just sits there with a flashing cursor. When it did boot into CD-ROM, I was able to boot Linux and browse hard drive fine. Booted once into MEMTEST and it ran for hours fine with no errors.
I have tried defaulting BIOS several times, tried several configurations for boot sequence and using F11 Boot Menu. No matter what I do, booting from CD is hit and miss (1 out of 4 times will boot) and it will NEVER boot from the hard drive.
Interesting thing is if I disconnect the hard disk, it will boot to the CD-ROM EVERY time (sort of), but I do have to wait until it says no boot record found on CD or floppy, then press ENTER to try again it boots
After searching for through other posts, I have tried increasing the DDR RAM voltage to 2.6v with no change.
Any ideas??? is there a BIOS limitation to the boot partition size of the hard drive, if so why would this affect booting to the CD?

Ummm... never had that trouble before... It should at least start booting, or at least recognize the boot sector has a valid boot record.
Those are all valid ideas, and I appreciate the input.
BTW, I am not a newbie. I am a telecom, network, and computer technician with almost 20 years of experience. This is just the first time I have had a problem with MSI boards, I use them all the time and they generally work flawlessly. I understand operating system licensing, OEM versions, 32 vs 64 bit, and how to copy files from one drive to another using multiple different ways. I was just hoping that there was something simple going on that I was missing that someone would just say "Yeah, turn XXXXX feature off in the BIOS".
I put an older 48x CD-ROM drive and a Western Digital 40 Gig in it and it worked beautifully, in the middle of installing Kubuntu Linux right now.
I actually resized the boot partition down to 130 Gig with Linux Parted Magic and it booted OK.
I think I actually had two problems with the previous setup:
1) Boot partition was too large for the BIOS, the entire partition should not exceed the 134 Gig boundry (different sites say anything from 130-138 Gig) for the BIOS on the motherboard according to some articles I googled.
2) The LG DVD-RAM drive was just too slow spinning up for the bios to recognize the boot partition on the CD or DVD.
I resized the partition back up to 250 Gig and put the DVD-RAM, Hard Disk, Processor, RAM, and video card back into the Compaq, it is a fast (by standards of the day) and stable machine, I was just looking for a way to add some expansion capabilities for more PCI cards and possibly a SATA drive. Anyway put a 2.0 Ghz Celeron, 768 Meg of DDR266 RAM, a CD-RW drive, and a Matrox G450 Dual-Head 32 Meg AGP card I had laying around in place of of the old and will just delegate this to a Linux box.
So far all seems fine, think I will just hold off putting too much into this machine since I was planning on building a new one this summer after USB 3.0 came out.
Thanks.

Windows XP and ICH5R SATA RAID 0

Ok, I have searched and not found any answer so I need to ask a question. I have a new system that I believe I set up with 2 Maxtor 120 Gb drives in RAID 0, but they don't seem to be doing what a RAID 0 grouping should.
The drives are on the ICH5R and the CTL I BIOS shows them enabled and in RAID 0, the drives did show up and were recognized. Windows XP Pro shows them as drives that make up 240 Gb Raid grouping in the drive management utility but it shows them graphically as two drives and it has a letter assigned on another line to the second drive. As far as I can tell they have been set up right but they are being treated as two seperate drives. Again, to clarify, I see a line for drive D that says it is a RAID grouping of 224 Gb (the 120 shows as 114 available) but there are two boxes on the line both showing as healthy with the second showing as healthy and active. On another line it shows drive E (the second 120) with 114 Gb available showing as healthy and active.
I thought it was just a graphics/explorer glitch but I have loaded a large group of data to the primary drive of tje grouping and the second drives still shows as having all the space free. The graphical display (right click on the drive and click properties) shows that space is being used in the first drive but the second drive is empty. There do seem to be a few files that are on the E (second drive) but they seem to be some sort of configuration files and only take up about 18 Mb while I have put files totalling about 10 Gb on D drive (and they show as taking up that much space but only on D).
Yes, I know that they are Maxtor's and other have had problems with them but mine seem to be working fine (as hard drives being recognized by Neo FIS2R) it just seems I may have done something wrong in Windows.
My question is what have I done wrong (if anything) and how do I fix it? The BIOS seems to recognize the drives correctly, Windows seems to know about the drives as a RAID array but data is not getting striped.
Thanks for any help.
P4 2.8Ghz not overclocked
Geil 1 Gb Dual Channel Ultra PC 3200 (400 Mhz) not overclocked
875P Neo2-FIS2R, BIOS version 1.8
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (128Mb) no OC
Antec Truepower 430W (Antec 1080AMG Case)
Maxtor 80 Gb IDE (Primary Channel/Master) - Runs Windows
2 Maxtor 120 Gb on ICH5R(SATA), RAID 0
Sony DVD Rom (Primary Channel/Slave)
Sony DRU510A Writer (Secondary, Master)
TDK VeloCD CD/RW (Secondary Slave)
WinXP Pro + SP1 + all latest Windows Updates
BIOS - enable USB, 1394 and ACPI.
BIOS setting for RAID under "On Chip IDE Config" is:
Native, SATA Only, SATA enabled=Yes, PATA enabled =Yes,
PATA Channel Selection=Both, Configure ATA as RAID=Yes

I did put in the drivers (from the included floppy) during the windows install and I ran the intel RAID accelerator. Drive management in Windows seems to recognize that it is a RAID grouping. I actually had to go back and reload Windows because I did not do that the first time I installed it. Before it would not recognize the drives at all.
So you two are thinking I need to start all over again and install windows (format the drives)? I just got everything working and recognized so this is not what I would want to do if there is an alternative.
P4 2.8Ghz not overclocked
Geil 1 Gb Dual Channel Ultra PC 3200 (400 Mhz) not overclocked
875P Neo2-FIS2R, BIOS version 1.8
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (128Mb) no OC
Antec Truepower 430W (Antec 1080AMG Case)
Maxtor 80 Gb IDE (Primary Channel/Master) - Runs Windows
2 Maxtor 120 Gb on ICH5R(SATA), RAID 0
Sony DVD Rom (Primary Channel/Slave)
Sony DRU510A Writer (Secondary, Master)
TDK VeloCD CD/RW (Secondary Slave)
WinXP Pro + SP1 + all latest Windows Updates
BIOS - enable USB, 1394 and ACPI.
BIOS setting for RAID under "On Chip IDE Config" is:
Native, SATA Only, SATA enabled=Yes, PATA enabled =Yes,
PATA Channel Selection=Both, Configure ATA as RAID=Yes

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