reject Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 FIXED------------------------------------> i flashed to the 10/15 memtest bios, and then i couldnt get into windows. sometimes it said the system disk error and other times it got to the "windows did not load successfully last time" screen , but when i press "load windows" nothing happens. then i tried loading the diamond flash 9/14 and it hasnt improved. i have 1 sata drive on port 3 and ive tried all combos of enabling RAID. also, now i get a IDE RAID message after the lanparty screen. btw. memtest works _____________________________________ fixed it by turning APIC on. now running 15/10 memtest and windows is good Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalapeno Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Originally posted by reject i flashed to the 10/15 memtest bios, and then i couldnt get into windows. sometimes it said the system disk error and other times it got to the "windows did not load successfully last time" screen , but when i press "load windows" nothing happens. then i tried loading the diamond flash 9/14 and it hasnt improved. i have 1 sata drive on port 3 and ive tried all combos of enabling RAID. also, now i get a IDE RAID message after the lanparty screen. btw. memtest works Seems like the 10/05 screwed your HDDs dude. Same thing happened to me - the SATA RAID ROM, which is being used in the 10/05 ain't working for everybody. Sorry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 :confused: forken shett man, I have no idea that comes from real first hand experience that the NVRAID ROM 4.66 causes any problems over the initial NVRAID ROM 4.52. I was insistent that Oskar put the 4.53 NVRAID ROM in instead of the 4.52 one but as is usual everyone is always snookered by the thought to move to the latest. Hehehehhe. I wanted the 4.53 NVRAID ROM because it had been used by MsI to help eliminate the have to turn on all of the SATA ports to bootup and that was all I know of that I was hoping for. Of course Nvidia is always supposedly refining the ROM and moving up in numbering trying to overcome the bugs in the chipset but as is often the case> fix one break one applies. Hehehehee. 'reject' you run single drive and I run SATA raid 0 with Hitachi drives on ports 3 & 4. I should turn on raid at IDE raid but you should not. We both must or should turn on likely all the Sata 1,2,3, and 4 in the Genie Bios. Now that is 'what' I presume would be the settings. At any rate when I 'know' I must turn on ALL sata ports to just run on ports 3 & 4, I have used every bios that has come down the road and with both NVRAID ROMs and have had no problems what so ever. I tried looking at your sig specs versus the one's 'jalapeno' shows and unless the Viesta and the problematic MDT that 'jalepeno' is using are cousins and that is the sameness that is causing the problem then I have no clue. Alex1971 with all his problems and crying about Cool and Quiet and "jalapeno's" problems with multipliers and maybe even with his flash to NVRAID ROM 4.66 are both using the dang MDT stuff and I suspect something about that memory is causing it to be a pain in the b utt and driving the user mad. I have no idea what in hale MDT stuff is and thank goodness I am not running any. But like I said I am hearing whispers of NVRAID ROM 4.66 giving some semblance of problems but I , myself, cannot duplicate it and I know from talking to Taiwan that they have not seen it either. So 'reject' if you can do some checking and see if the Adata you are using and the MDT stuff are kin to each other somehow. I presume the MDT is mostly sold outside the US in foreign to me countries. I cannot get any good information on the MDT as I cannot read the foreign lanuage sites. Some folks can. I am going to guess that you will have to flash back to the 9/14 which I think is now official and does not have NVRAID ROM 4.66 in it as in truth the 4.66 is still in beta and beta always means beta. When you get back to 4.52 it is my guess you may have to do fixmbr or fixboot and as a last option maybe you will need to re-install. There is one other thing that seems to be surfacing and that maybe that the yellow SATA cables are underperforming. I noticed you posted where, oh hale I cannot remember his name, showed his broken yellow sata cable. Sometimes we flash a bios and have 'just been in' the case at the same time. Maybe you need to closely look at the sata cables. From the one's I have heard with problems> you can see the problem> it is not hidden. That is it for what little shett this MS red-nake knows so far. Sincerely, RGone...:confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalapeno Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Sorry for Thread-Jack - but dear RGOne - how many times do I have to tell you that the MDTs are not the problem. I had the same freakin' probs with Ballistix, OCZ Platinum Rev.2, G.Skill, more Ballistix, and Micron 5R-Cs. So please don't blame it on the RAM - it simply ain't true And: Try http://www.mdt-usa.com/pages/1/index.htm PS: The tests with not-working-multipliers were done with OCZ Platinum Rev2 and GSKill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocGiggs Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Have you checked to see that you don't have an extra "removeable" disk besides a floppy drive like a thumb drive? I found a little bug that if you have a thumb drive or something that shows up like a removeable drive then the bios will only try to boot from that device and nothing else. This happens with my printer even that has built in memory. It started doing this after I upgraded to the 10/15 bios as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Jack Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Guys I have moddified the 10/15 bios with memtest & put the 4.52 raid rom in it. It should let you boot & have memtest. REJECT - try this bios, it should work for you.10/15 - memtest-452 raid rom-4vdimm Rgone - can you piont me to the 4.53 raid bios, I have been looking but have not found. I can put it in if I can get my hands on it. SJ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reject Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 thanks for all the replys guys, but i fixed it as posted above. someone please change the title to Fixed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Jack Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Wow I did not see that. You did not have APIC on or the bios defaulted to it off. This my be the hole problem for many. SJ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 reject et al. Yes the newer NVRAID ROM 4.66 has called for other defaults. In fact such strange defaults. So strange that I begin to wonder if Nvidia has decide APIC off is less problematic suddenly than APIC on. But what they did not take into account is that WinXP loaded with APIC on in bios will not boot with it then turned off. They did not really take that into account. I see Drives that were AUTO set and no drive there at all now being detected as NONE and many many defaults that are now different. I really did not think much about it as I thought all went over each bios with a fine tooth comb like I do as most are tweakers and tuners. But for sure APIC is off in the bios with NVRAID 4.66. Ok Sj why don't you PM me first and I will give you email to reach me by. I don't post them here for ferretbots to find. We can beat that 4.53 thing up without in a better surrounding. Sincerely, RGone... PS: 'jalapeno' why don't you RMA that dang board and find out if it is board related or pieces related? Get a more definitive answer maybe. Even under the closer scrutiny of overseas RMA you should literally be able to say the bios adjustments do nOt work and that is true and get new and better maybe. We hold onto problems too long now days and I get tired fast. It is a thought.:cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirfergy Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 What exactly is APIC anyways? Would it make my system more stable if it's off? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcicle Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 It relates to power management and IRQ management. XP and 2K always seem to load too much hardware on differen't IRQ's especially IRQ 5 and 11. Back in the day... we used to run 2K with APIC off and set our IRQ assignments ourself. Because of driver issue's etc. It has to be set as disabled in BIOS and then a fresh install of 2K. But have no fear.... M$oft will do its damndest to control IRQ assignments no matter what you do. XP and 2K basically use the same KERNAL as they both are NTFS. With 98SE APIC has to be disabled in BIOS or the O/S won't boot up. As 98SE uses the 32.dll KERNAL. Man that's all I know about it........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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