Raid 1 setup NEO2 Platinum

I am having questions about the BIOS settings for a RAID 1 mirroring array.
I went through the manual and tried this once....I used to create the array, which shows as 'healthy'...I have the SATA drives plugged into sata3 and sata4
QUESTION 1...Since this 2 disk array is to be my boot disk, do I configure the array to 'Yes' under the set boot column? I assumed yes...
QUESTION 2...In BIOS, what are the settings for the RAID mode...In integrated peripherals, in IDE function setup...I have sata1/sata2 DMA transfer and sata 3/sata4DMA transfer disabled (is this supposed to be enabled?)
QUESTION 3.... In BIOS, ONboard device...sata 1/sata 2 and sata 3/sata 4 are all enabled...in Raid config...IDE Raid is enabled, sata1-4 are all enabled....Is this correct?
The reason I ask is because I booted with CDROM winxp pro, pressed F6 to load raid drivers on floppy, press s and loaded drivers, and again for the second set...then the disk formatted to a single partition, and installed 100% of the files (including the ones on the floppy)...then while I was away for a minute, and came back the screen was on the (press S part again...like it booted off of the cdrom again (although i hadnt pressed f6) I pressed enter to continue and it booted back to post....I dont have windows xp loading off of the drives like its not booting an OS...the OS didnt load like windows normally does (with minutes left...etc) so I know that something messed up.
QUESTION 4...once this is done....is the boot priority set to hard drive going to be the raid 1 array that I configured? I am not there yet but ...
THanks
MZ

OK..
I set the BIOS to the suggested settings (most were ok already)...I had followed the SATA link as suggested...that is what I had done already. THese are 2 drives brand new system, never formatted.
What is happening now is, after and installing the drivers , and the screen shows windows setup at the top and at the bottom, "setup is starting windows" it is just hanging there...nothing has happened for 10 minutes..just hanging. The 4 led's on the d-bracked are all green, the cdrom was working to load the initial boot off of winxp.
What do you suggest now? I tried this 3 times now with the same ' hanging ' result.
I also deleted, and cleared the array and rebuilt the mirror..
By the way, my initial post still stands, the 1st time I did all of this this hang didnt happen and the formatting and file loading were successful, but then the sytem didnt begin installing the OS.
Please help...I RMA's an ASUS board and switched to this one hoping the setup would be easier...ouch
MZ

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I’m a rank newbie on this forum (first post). I have a K8N Neo2 Platinum Mobo, which I’ve recently gotten up and running, with Windows XP-Pro SP2 installed on a single IDE drive. I would now like to add 2 SATA drives. I don’t need or want the SATA drives to operate in a RAID array, nor do I want them to be bootable. I want to use them independently for data storage. I read the following thread (I am posting here on a separate thread per the author’s wishes not to get his original thread too junked-up) :
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jim,
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-brian
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LITEON BD Player
Rosewill 850W PSU
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Why are you starting a scond topic about all this?
Please stick to the one you already started... this makes no sense at all.
I'm locking this one.
>> Here << is the other topic.

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Can any one help me with the BIOS settings for my SATA HDD on an 915P Neo2 Platinum motherboard ?
Configuration:
- Antec Sonata II 450 Watt
- Intel Pentium 4 630, Socket 775
- Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 SDRAM, 1 GB, PC4300, 533 MHz
- 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B)
- 2x NEC ND-4550 16 connected to EDI 1
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I have tested with the following settings:
1)
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Result:
   Can't format with Windows Setup CD (sp2)
   If it formatted with 3rd party utils, then performance of the system is very poor.
Thanks in advance !

Hi, I suggest you to set the ATA/IDE config as Legacy and check that all your HDDs are detected, if not all, at least your HDD and optical drive. Then continue with the installation. After WinXP installation settled down, then go back to the BIOS and switch to Enhanced again, and then continue boot up to windows and install Intel INF.

K8N Neo2 Platinum - RAID Array Causes CPU Spikes!

I got my RAID array set up.
When I transfer files to it, my CPU usage (kernerl level) shoot up. It's around 100%, and it slows my system way down.
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum.
RAID 0 using SATA ports 3 and 4.
I'm transferring files from my current windows installation to partitions on the raid array, so I can install windows on the array after removing the old drives.
I can transfer data fine, but using the array causes huge cpu usage which slows the rest of my system down a LOT.

Quote from: MurdoK on 19-April-06, 16:40:06
Hello !
Which SATA / Raid Driver did you install ? The ones from the nforce driver package provided by nvidia, or the original MSI driver ?
Go here:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=607&kind=1
And download and install the SATA RAID Driver, make a backup of your Data first.
Greetz
Well, I have seen this post and it makes me wonder what are the differences between nforce chipset driver packages and the MSI ones if any? Thanks in advance.

Few question above the k8n neo2 platinum and raid

hi
i have for now intel 3.4ghz and asus p4c800dlux and 4 sata drives :
2x36giga wd 10000 raptors in raid 0 (connected to the on board promise sata controller)
2x200giga wd 7200 jd sata that (connected to on bard sata ports)
i order a athlon fx-55 and k8n neo2 platinum for a oc (a have 2x512 corsiar pc4000pro and hydro cool 200 ) and its look that its going to be problem
"SATA ports 1+2 will not maintain a lock and you can and will corrupt hard drives placed on these channels if you raise the HTT above 220mhz."
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=ge...890&articID=228
so im in a problem, if i wont to do nice oc (and i will) i need to leave sata ports 1 and 2 not connected and buy a sata-pci controller for my 2x200giga , im right ?
in that case i need to connect the raptors in raid 0 in the sata 3-4 prots (near the agp) but:
the raid on the noe2 is "NV RAID (Software)" it means that there is no a controller like promise and the cpu need to replace the controller work, so its doing a lower performance.

If you had 4 huge drives I would be more sympathetic. To me every board is a compromise, resulting in me having to abandon something I might have done previoulsy. In you case ditch the two 36gb drives, and slum it with the 200gb drives. Remember that "overclocking" is not a right. There will be many users oblivious of the SATA 1/2 overclocking problems running 4 sata drives in RAID without a problem.

KN8 Neo2 Platinum Nightmare - please set me straight!

Hi,
Thank you very much for reading this post. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as i would like to avoid the RMA process
My problem: Intermittently, machine will not POST – (CD/DVD drives keep flashing/resetting forever)… no “beep”, and pc needs 4sec hold of power to shut down (don’t know if this gives any detail in sequence of post or not).
My Config:
K8N Neo2 Platinum
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Corsair Dual (Twin) DDR 1GB PC3200XLPRO – in “Auto” originally, now in 2-2-2-5 with 2.75 volts
Antec TRUE POWER 450 (modular PSU)
2x Seagate 200MB HD in Raid 0 (stripe) (on SATA 0 and 1)
Floppy
Sony 4x DVD+/-R and LG 52x CDR on IDE 0
EVGA NVIDIA 6800GT 256
BIOS 1.2 (as shipped)
- NO Overclocking
Sequence of issue:
I built the machine last weekend and hooked everything up (I know a mistake) and machine would not post…. So I started unplugging, started with IDE-0 and it posts fine. So I think – ok so my issue is here….replace IDE cable and move drives to IDE 1 and I am fine. Installed windows…soft rebooted many times, fully installed my whole system, programs, drivers, etc. THEN – I did a HARD REBOOT. Problem comes back. I move CD Drives to IDE 0 and it boots fine again!.... Install games, play games for 5+ hours no problems.
Now I get this non-post issue every 3 hard boots or so. First boot after the problem, bios tells me I have a failed OVERCLOCK, adjust in setup…which is BS but I have to go to bios settings, change nothing, then it boots fine.
One other thing – the memory is supposed to be a 2.75 volts according to Corsair, so I changed that (bios seting is RED – not recommended) and this change does not seem to affect anything (can post and operate normally for a while then get no post again).
I have built 10+ systems and this is the most frustrating issue ever for me!!! My guess was:
1) loose connection – nope – reset everything 3x
2) Power – tried using different power connectors for 6800GT card but don’t know if there are any specific issues here (maybe the card needs a connector with nothing else on it?)
3) RAM / CPU / MB issue: I have tried moving ram in slot 2/3 but same issues. I reeeeely don’t want to have to re-seat the athlon64.
THANKS FOR ANY/ALL INPUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And here's an important thing to read :
It's comming from an article at ModdersHQ community"
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The Noisetaker probably performed the weakest out of all 3 in the test. However, considering this PSU is only rated at 470w, compared to 510w and 550w; and it does not have adjustable rails, it did very well. The rails were all well within reason, but the Noisetaker showed the largest drop, especially on the 12v rail. I think the 6800 Ultra was beginning to suck more juice than the Noisetaker had. Unfortunately, here is where you can see the downside of dual 12v rails: there is no "backup" or "reserve" current.
Each 12v rail has about 15 amps of current, compared to the usual 34 amps or so on a normal PSU. Now, if you add them together, everything is fine. But the problem arises when you suck too much current from a single rail. With a regular PSU, the current ceiling is very high(30a or so), so even though you might be running a ton of fans and drives, chances are you can at least unplug something if the rail drops too low. Also, if you have less fans and drives, then you have more current at your disposal. However, if you are only working with a 15a current, then your ceiling is much lower. You have no "reserve" current to draw from that would be designed for fans and drives. So even if you have a single drive and fan plugged in, you still only have 15a for your motherboard, CPU and graphics card. And there is no way to access that other 12v rail without running a molex from the second rail. That is most likely why you see the dip in the 12v rail from idle to load. Although not huge, it is noticable, and with a smaller PSU would become a problem.
That can explain our problems...!!!

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I'm wondering af anyone here can help me.
I just got a new system and a friend of mine helped set up the bios for me, afterwards he failed to tell me how he had configured the bios (my first big mistake).
Since the buidling of the system there have been 3 short beeps at the beginning of startup. I was told that it was a warning system of some sort and when i looked it up, the informations pointed towards a problem with the RAM.
I ran memtest86 and it found no problems with the RAM, so i contacted the site i bought the parts from and they suggested i reset the bios.
I did so and the beeps remained, but my DVD and DVD-writer drives arent being detected anymore.
I took my PC around to another friends house with only his keyboard and monitor connected. The beeping had stopped before we changed anything. Bringing it back around to my house resulted in the beeping returning.
From this i gathered that the only things different may have been his power source and the peripherals i have attached to the back of the case. (speakers, printer, kb/m, etc)
Going by the manual map, my 2 HDDs are connected as slave/master in IDE port 1 and my two DVD drives are connected to the yellow IDE port that is closest to IDE port 1 (it's either IDE 2 or 3, the map isnt too clear on which is which).
Long story short, can anyone help me in identifying the source of the beeps and their meaning, an optimum setup for my bios and how to get my DVD drives to work.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. I'm fairly new to building computers and my friends are the type to suddenly become unavailable as soon as a problem arises.
edit: just noticed i missed the spec description part menitoned in the rules.
MSI s775 915P-Neo2-Platinum
Version 1.4 of bios
Pentium 4 540 LGA775 3.2GHz
Corsair VS 1GB DDR2 240 pin RAM
256 MSI PCI-express GF6800GT, latest drivers
600W 3XS-EzCool PPFC
Western digital WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0 (160GB) (master)
Seagate U series 5 HDD ST340823A (40GB) (slave) Both on IDE slot 1
Liteon DVD-ROM (spec unavailable)
MSI 4x DVD-RW +/- (part no: G57-CB00243, this is all i could find on this part form the box)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Windows XP SP2
second attempt at clearing up the garbled mess from above.
Motherboard is making 3 short beeps on startup. Indication of a problem with memory. I've established that it's something external that causing the beeps as the memory has checked out fine with memtest86. Hence i will be checking all the attached devices.
I was guided to reset the bios in an attempt to clear up this problem above. Doing so has resulted in my bios being unable to detect my DVD drives.
My DVD-drives are connected to IDE port 2/3 (manual is unclear on which is which).
Everything was in working order (with the exception of the beeping) before the bios was reset but due to my lack of knowledge/involvement with the original configuration of the bios, i'm at a loss as to how to fix it.
If anyone could recommend me any updates for the bios, or could advise me on how to configure my bios accordingly to the parts i have i would be most appreciative. Also, if osmeone would be abel to shed some light on the beeping issue i would be thankful also.

Quote
Originally posted by Danny
The board uses a Via raid controller for the IDE 2 and 3 channels, and you do have that enabled.
Under SATA devices configuration you should select Enhanced instead of compatible. But this should effect your problem.
I see there is a 1.5 bios released that mentions the via controller
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=601&kind=1
Maybe someone with this board will pitch in and help.
I saw this and was wondering if i should install it. It would be the equivelent of resetting the bios again wouldnt it? So it wouldnt be that much of a step back from where i am at the moment and it might be able to sort my IDE problems.

Love my Neo2 Platinum

I gotta say I love my Neo2 Platinum. I was hesitant to buy it after following this forum through most of November and December, but I went ahead and ordered my system below and set it up over Christmas. I had zero problems setting it up and zero problems since. It's more stable than my Pent III 450 I replaced. I'm going to get another Hard Drive soon and then work on figuring out which RAID configuration to use. Maybe someone can help me. I would like my Windows My Documents folder to reside on a different hard drive than the one the OS is installed on. Is this possible to do? Or would I have to save documents into other folders I create on the second drive manually? I'm more in tune with Hardware setup and older operating systems, so XP is a bit new to me.
I'm running XP SP2, have Cool-N-Quiet working and I'm running BIOS 1.4 from MSI.
Thanks, all
JQ

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I would like my Windows My Documents folder to reside on a different hard drive than the one the OS is installed on. Is this possible to do?
yep, right-click on "My Documents" folder and select properties. then enter the new location into the Target Folder Location box, and windows will ask if you wish to move existing files to this new location

915P Neo2 Platinum problems

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me as I've been tweaking bios settings for 3 days and not managed to get anywhere with this.
I've have the following:
1x 915p Neo2 Platinum Mboard
1x Sapphire x600 235MB Graphics
1x Corsair PC2-4200 512 MB DDR2
1x 40GB Western Digital IDE drive
1x 30GB Western Digital IDE drive
When I first switched it all on, the board powered up but I got no display and no beeps. After pulling out all wires and adding the minimum of devices I got it to start up properly and got into bios. Eventually, after tweaking some settings and then systematically adding each device in turn I got everything connected whilst maintaining stability so it would still boot up.
Next problem I has was that it wouldn't boot from a floppy. It kept giving me "Disk I/O error". I tried several different floppy disks - same problem. I changed the floppy cable and still got the same error. I then bought a new floppy drive and tried that but still got the same problem. Decided to carry on and install XP incase floppy started to work later.
When installing, I pressed F6 to load RAID drivers. I selected the IDE RAID driver, it chugged away and carried on loading setup. My 2 IDE drives were successfully identified and I selected the installation drive and formatted it (tried quick and full format), after it had done this, it then tried to load the RAID driver again from the disk. At this point, the driver disk is still in the floppy drive, but it then says that it can not load the file from the disk and to try another. Again I tried several disks all of which gave the same problem.
I've searched this forum to help me with my earlier issues and found answers but couldn't find any info on this one. Can anyone help? I'm starting to think that my mboard has a poorly floppy controller. Also, I've got completly confused about the RAID setup, I currently have both my drives, 1 as master and 1 as slave, in IDE2 and have not touched the RAID BOIS setup - does this mean I will still be able to use these as 2 different drives? Eventaull I will add SATA RAID.

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Originally posted by Del UK
Hi Masjj,
Could list some details of the PSU you using please, as this would help. Please see sig below as a guide.
Confirm please:
You can boot and format, then when install happens, failure????
Del
My spec is as follows:
No OS yet
- tried Win XP (blue screen after RAID driver load)
- trie Win XP with SP1a ("can not load viaraid.sys" error after disk format)
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (MS-7028 Ver 10A)
BIOS - Shows "915P/G NEO2 A7028IMS V1.0 05/27/04" on first screen, in BIOS setup screen shows v02.56
Intel P4 3.0GHz PRESCOTT, 1MB L2-Cache, 800MHz FSB
Sapphire X600 256MB + 19" TFT
Soundblaster 5.1 Live card with LiveDrive
Western Digital 30GB IDE (Master)
Western Digital 40GB IDE (Slave)
Pioneer DVR-105 DVD/RW Burner
DVD-ROM
WD 800JB+CD-RW
1* Corsair Value 512MB PC4200 DDR2 Ram
PSU - eTech 460 +3.3v-28A +5v-30A +12V-30A
I cannot boot from Floppy, can boot from CD. When I try to install WinXP with SP1a, I hit F6 to load RAID drivers, choose driver from list. Setup then detects HDDs, I format install drive, then it tries to load RAID driver again from disk and gives a fail message of "unable to load VIAMRAID.SYS" and will not continue. If I try to install without RAID drivers, it says that there is no storage device connected.

Slow RX53, K8N Neo2 Platinum system

I put together my FX53 system last night. It is replacing a 1 year old P4 3.2 (Oc'd to 3.4) system. Basically I just replaced the CPU and MOBO and everything else is the same. Here are My specs.
Athlon FX53 939 pin
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
512 X2 Mushkin Level 2 DDR3500
EVGA GeForce 6800 GT (in the queue to upgrade to an Ultra)
SB Audigy ZS
2X Hitachi Deskstar 200GB RAID 0
PC Power and Cooling 510 watt PSU
CD burner DVD burner etc.
The installation and setup went perfectly. I have my RAM in slots 1&2 and it is reported as Dual Channel 200mhz. I did a fresh install of Windows XP sp2 and installed the latest (5.10) Nvidia chipset drivers and video drivers. My BIOS is basically set to "optimized defaults" (cool-n-quiet and the hardware devices I don't use are disabled). I just wanted to do some testing with untweaked settings to see just how much faster this system is than my old one. Much to my suprise it is slower, not a lot slower, but slower. I'm sure it should be faster. I lost about 6-8 FPS in Doom 3, and 3DMark 2003 lost about 800 points.
My Sandra scores are
Memory 5829
CPU 11067
Multimedia 22975/24465
3D Mark 03 is 11,421
CPU-1059
As far as I can tell my CPU/Memory benches look ok but not outstanding for my system. When you throw my Video card into the mix though my performance is less than expected. I'm stumped and disappointed. I feel like I payed almost $1000 for a downgrade.

512 X2 Mushkin Level 2 DDR3500
I had the same ram and both my co and cg HATED it. I ended up replacing it with 2x512 pc4k crucial ballistix. My A64's love my ballistix. 245 1T 2.5/2/2/6 2.8v or 265 2T 3,3,3,8 2.8v.
I personaly do not use memtest for testing A64's. It been my experience that memtest will miss errors which are detected by Goldmemory.
Try setting 2,3,2,7 and bump vdram to 2.8-2.85-2.9v. The level two has winbond BH-5 chips and they crave voltage.
Below is Mushkin's take on the a64's mem controller.
http://www.mushkin.com/epages/Mushkin.storefront/4156cad701e46ffc2741c0a801020673/UserTemplate/27
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Athlon64 3000+ and Higher
The Athlon64 itself uses a single memory channel and only one controller on the CPU. Because of this, the Athlon 64 (non-FX) can actually use plain vanilla, unbuffered, non-ECC modules. There are, however, still some peculiarities of the Athlon64 systems in how they are handling memory which effects memory compatibility.
One of the most critical issues in this resepect relates to the first step in the memory access sequence, that is, the opening of a memory page and subsequent steps until a read command can be issued. All of these steps fall into the time frame referred to as RAS-to-CAS delay or tRCD. In a typical system, the memory controller on the chipset is running at bus speed. On the Athlon64, it is running at CPU speed, which means that it is A LOT faster. That means that the internal sequence of commands also goes faster, and that's where all systems are getting hiccups if the memory chips used can only run at a high tRCD.
A very trivial explanation is that the controller expects that the memory is as fast as it itself but we don't have memory yet running at a 2 GHz and beyond clock rate. What it comes down to is that, depending on the BIOS tuning (by the manufacturer), the read command is issued a bit too early and violates the tRCD. The workaround is to add one additional cycle to the actual memory latency, that is, a 2:2:2-rated DIMM will run stable at 2:3:2; a 2:3:2 rated module will, most likely, need to be set to 2:4:2 in order to run stable (where the latencies are CAS:tRCD:tRP). Bottom line is that when shopping for memory for the Athlon64, it is highly advisable and in most cases mandatory to only consider memory with a tRCD of 2 or, to make it simple, memory that is rated at 2:2:2 a the designated speed. Alternatively, registered DIMMs can be used as well without problems, even though they are slightly more expensive and will give lower performance.

K8N Neo2 Platinum + Corsair CMX512-3200C2 timings

Is there someone on the boards with Neo2 Platinum and 2 x 512MB Corsair XMS 3200 (CMX512-3200C2) installed?
I've read from Ramguy and Corsair that the SPD timings on the sticks are done according to JEDEC standards and they don't default to the optimum speeds.
What could I squeeze out from these sticks without problems?

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I also have the TWINX1024-3200c2 although on a Neo Platinum. It seems to be very forgiving as I can run at a variety of settings. Have settled on 2.5,3,3,10 (HTT=220) as well. I read a review recommending these timings and have no reason to doubt the info as it works great for me.
what do you have your volts set at?
@2.70V. All setting input manually (no Auto).
Well, i have 2 sticks of that same ram but there not TwinX. Could this be my problem, why i cant overclock it or cold it be that i have on harddrive on SATA connector. My Raid setup is on 3 & 4 and that should be locked.
I know TWINX modules are tested together so there must be a reason they do so (i.e. untested modules may not work). I use the SATA connector (3+4) so that is no problem for me. I have a modest overclock with these modules as the Corsair information I have read on them is that they are not for aggressive overclocking. Why you can't overclock (can't you even increase HTT from 200 to 201?) at all I have no idea. Sorry, I'm certainly no expert in these matters.

Raid 1 setup NEO2 Platinum

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