Best Bios for NF7-S v2.0

Kenai · Oct 24, 2003

I finally took the plunge, well , I got the wife to loosen the purse strings and I am buying a WD raptor hard drive. $110 at newegg.

You can see my system spec's in the sig. My system is very stable, but my current HD is my weak-point.

I will be installing Windows XP SP1 with all the latest drivers for hardware.

What Bios, if any, gives the best performance, now that I will be utilizing SATA instead of PATA?

Thanks for any help!

kagee108 · Oct 24, 2003

Kenai said:
What Bios, if any, gives the best performance, now that I will be utilizing SATA instead of PATA?

Thanks for any help!

The bios that came on board should be 18. That is good enough.
There is a new one (19) just out this past week, but it only adds compatability for the new Duron series chip w/266 fsb.
Do all of your windows updates, get the latest SATA driver (should come with windows updates).

I hope you are not running the Maxtor on the SATA. You need, (I should say it is recommended) a minimum of 100ATA for any drives there. (Using an IDE drive with the serial adapter). Not sure about stability long term with any slower drive.

Good luck!

humv · Oct 25, 2003

what is the max. cap of HDD for RAID? Is it 137G or bigger?

kagee108 · Oct 25, 2003

humv said:
what is the max. cap of HDD for RAID? Is it 137G or bigger?

I believe that Win XP will only see 137G. I'm not quite sure.

humv · Oct 25, 2003

Not really, can recognise 180G.

Only really old mother board does the 137G limits.

Oh, I see the point now...... it was not about RAID, it was about large HDD. Thx man.

nut581 · Oct 25, 2003

as far as overclocking goes, bios 10 seems to be the best, but it has problems with RAID SATA corruption (altho a modified version which should fix the problem is available) ... but if you're not into highest FSB (say over 215), the latest is the best

...

the choice is urs.

Overcrocked · Oct 26, 2003

I actually found Bios 19 better for overclocking than bios 10. I think it's just luck of the draw with the hardware you have more than what bios you use [I want a raptor as well].

-Overcrocked

Kenai · Oct 29, 2003

Thanks for the replies

I haven't done any volt mods, but I do like to overclock ..... to some extent. I am running Bios 10 now, and I am able to get to 210, have'nt tried any higher, with no problems. I have further read about some SATA problems with bios 10, but I agree, it's luck of the draw and what type of hardware you run. I get corrupted files with 10 on my little Maxtor now, and no I do not have it hooked to my SATA. I will post my results, on OC levels when I install it this weekend. I think I will try both 18 and 19 and see what happens with both.

Thanks for the info.

CoolRunnings · Oct 30, 2003

XP recognises large drives no problem. Running a 200gb drive in here atm without issue. I have it partitioned into several parts though...

CoolRunnings · Oct 30, 2003

Dbl post. Sorry.

kagee108 · Oct 30, 2003

CoolRunnings said:
XP recognises large drives no problem. Running a 200gb drive in here atm without issue. I have it partitioned into several parts though...

XP would have a problem with 200GB which is why it has to be partitioned. Each partition looks like another HD to windows.

BTW, watch the double posting next time.

9mmCensor · Oct 30, 2003

For the bios I used the nf7d14b1.

For the nforce drivers I used nForce_2.03_WinXP_english

These are known to be the preformance dios and drivers.

Overcrocked · Oct 30, 2003

kagee108 said:
XP would have a problem with 200GB which is why it has to be partitioned. Each partition looks like another HD to windows.

Anyone with a 200gb hard would crazy not to partition a 200gb
Hard Drive anyway. Defragging a full 200gb hard drive gives me the chills.

kagee108 said:
BTW, watch the double posting next time.

Watch out! Kagee is the double post police!

9mmCensor said:
For the bios I used the nf7d14b1.

For the nforce drivers I used nForce_2.03_WinXP_english

These are known to be the preformance dios and drivers.

I don't know about the drivers, but Bios 14 maybe be a little out of date for a new Raptor Sata drive. Anyways, I've gotten better performance out of Bios 19 then out of 10/14/17/18, but I'm just repeating myself here anyways.

kagee108 · Oct 30, 2003

Overcrocked said:
Watch out! Kagee is the double post police! [/B]

Watch it mister... or it will be BSOD for you! You'll need more than a deframenter. EH?

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