nicspits
02-03-04, 08:02 PM
Ok, so here goes the Saga.
I had 2x30gb WD 7200rpm 2mb drives in raid0 on the cheapo silicon image ata133 raid controller. Everything worked fine.(Win2k)
I got 2x80gb diamond max 9s (7200, 8mb) and a highpoint rocketraid133.
I removed the old and put in the new for a fresh install. Problem was that DX9b was corrupting my kernel.dll everytime i tried to install it. My installation method went like this- chipset drivers from Abit disk, windows SP4 from update, and the rest of the updates, than DX9.
So I gave up on that and went with 8.1 off the abit disc. In the process rebooting to do this(after i found out it was DX9), the highpoint decided to freeze up while verifying the dmi pool. Than it even decided to glitch up the screen with vertical colored bits of god knows what but it had numbers and letters in it. (it must be dead from something or other right???<Q1)
So I switched back to the silicon image controller. Formats and initial installs went fine. But in the process of installing software, something would always get corrupted or go missing. Software\config, ntfs.sys, etc. The very last time i tried, windows was installing drivers for either the Nvidia USB controller or my pci 5 port USB controller and than it kept on going in and out of explorer. (the task bar would disappear and reappear, etc, etc.).
So i put my old hard drives back in and am running off of them now. Another noteable point is that i partitioned the Raid0 with about 80 on each. I have my current drives partitioned also with a 20 and 38. And also, silicon image asks for a partition size thingy and I would choose 8k since that's what windows2k works with, and the highpoint allowed for 16,32,and 64(default) so i stuck with the 64.
My hope - after this I decided to go XP, will this alleviate these problems? Will I have to do away with my precious RAID0 and use my spare IDE controller? Any and all help is greatly appreciated and desperately needed. Thanks a lot everyone
I had 2x30gb WD 7200rpm 2mb drives in raid0 on the cheapo silicon image ata133 raid controller. Everything worked fine.(Win2k)
I got 2x80gb diamond max 9s (7200, 8mb) and a highpoint rocketraid133.
I removed the old and put in the new for a fresh install. Problem was that DX9b was corrupting my kernel.dll everytime i tried to install it. My installation method went like this- chipset drivers from Abit disk, windows SP4 from update, and the rest of the updates, than DX9.
So I gave up on that and went with 8.1 off the abit disc. In the process rebooting to do this(after i found out it was DX9), the highpoint decided to freeze up while verifying the dmi pool. Than it even decided to glitch up the screen with vertical colored bits of god knows what but it had numbers and letters in it. (it must be dead from something or other right???<Q1)
So I switched back to the silicon image controller. Formats and initial installs went fine. But in the process of installing software, something would always get corrupted or go missing. Software\config, ntfs.sys, etc. The very last time i tried, windows was installing drivers for either the Nvidia USB controller or my pci 5 port USB controller and than it kept on going in and out of explorer. (the task bar would disappear and reappear, etc, etc.).
So i put my old hard drives back in and am running off of them now. Another noteable point is that i partitioned the Raid0 with about 80 on each. I have my current drives partitioned also with a 20 and 38. And also, silicon image asks for a partition size thingy and I would choose 8k since that's what windows2k works with, and the highpoint allowed for 16,32,and 64(default) so i stuck with the 64.
My hope - after this I decided to go XP, will this alleviate these problems? Will I have to do away with my precious RAID0 and use my spare IDE controller? Any and all help is greatly appreciated and desperately needed. Thanks a lot everyone