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- Apr 20, 2006
Hi guys ..
Had to do some setup re-arraignment on account of low funds so have combined my general use PC (does a lil bit of gaming, lots of multimedia & web use) and HomeServer (4TB of storage, encoding jobs) into one machine.. On the cheap for the moment then with performance upgrades coming to increase its gaming and encoding power ...
So.. I picked up a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-ED3H, a HD5450 and a case with enough 5.25" bays. I also grabbed another OCZ Vertex 30GB (1st Gen) to put in RAID0 for better OS performance..
I checked both Vertex SSDs were running the latest firmware (1.6) and gave them both a garbage sweep, then set them up in RAID0 on the boards SB850 Southbridge and reboot. The SB RAID BIOS page (ROM: 3.2.1.020.39) detected my RAID0 array and indicated that everything was healthy so I went ahead and installed Win 7 64-bit without any problems.
Booted, installed all the system drivers and windows updates then powered down to install the RAID card in the mobo's 2nd PCI-E slot. It's a full length slot that runs @ 8x while the RR640 uses a shorter 4x connector (however this shouldn't make a difference) and after making sure the SATA cables and power to the HDDs and card were all AOK I successfully powered back on.
The system posts and displays the RR640s BIOS page which detects my RAID10 array and reports it as Healthy then moves onto the SB RAID BIOS page and attempts to detect my Vertex RAID0 array.. And it hangs. Entirely freezes by my account, stays like it for hours (I fell asleep in fact) and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't cause a reboot..
So I've tried updating the motherboards BIOS to the latest non-BETA version (FF) and will try the BETA version after posting this but otherwise I'm stuck for ideas
Any input and idea's appreciated - Cheers!
Had to do some setup re-arraignment on account of low funds so have combined my general use PC (does a lil bit of gaming, lots of multimedia & web use) and HomeServer (4TB of storage, encoding jobs) into one machine.. On the cheap for the moment then with performance upgrades coming to increase its gaming and encoding power ...
So.. I picked up a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-ED3H, a HD5450 and a case with enough 5.25" bays. I also grabbed another OCZ Vertex 30GB (1st Gen) to put in RAID0 for better OS performance..
I checked both Vertex SSDs were running the latest firmware (1.6) and gave them both a garbage sweep, then set them up in RAID0 on the boards SB850 Southbridge and reboot. The SB RAID BIOS page (ROM: 3.2.1.020.39) detected my RAID0 array and indicated that everything was healthy so I went ahead and installed Win 7 64-bit without any problems.
Booted, installed all the system drivers and windows updates then powered down to install the RAID card in the mobo's 2nd PCI-E slot. It's a full length slot that runs @ 8x while the RR640 uses a shorter 4x connector (however this shouldn't make a difference) and after making sure the SATA cables and power to the HDDs and card were all AOK I successfully powered back on.
The system posts and displays the RR640s BIOS page which detects my RAID10 array and reports it as Healthy then moves onto the SB RAID BIOS page and attempts to detect my Vertex RAID0 array.. And it hangs. Entirely freezes by my account, stays like it for hours (I fell asleep in fact) and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't cause a reboot..
So I've tried updating the motherboards BIOS to the latest non-BETA version (FF) and will try the BETA version after posting this but otherwise I'm stuck for ideas
Any input and idea's appreciated - Cheers!