nToxiK Posted March 30, 2005 Posted March 30, 2005 I've had my LP nF3 UT 250gb for two weeks now and the main problem I have is that when starting the PC from cold (where it has been sitting off for a while), the SATA 3/4 drives (2 Maxtor 120gb 7200) don't get recognized. The result is either my PC hangs at "Detecting array", or it gets past that and hangs at the loading DMI (just before Windows), OR the hard drive boot sequence somehow changes in the bios and points to my data IDE drive first (which has no OS) and the Maxtor RAID drives 2nd. To fix this, I have to continually go into the bios, go into the Standard CMOS Features section, and re-recognize the drives on the Intenal phy SATA 3 and 3 (chnage them to Auto from None). Then, if the dive sequence changed, I have to go into the Advanced BIOS Features and change the Hard Drive Boot Priority to the RAID striped drives to be first, rather than my IDE data drive. I'm running the 10/15 Jesse bios, but I am not overclocking at all. What gives. This is a real pain in the a$$. Is there a fix for this? Should the board be RMA'd? Please help. nToxiK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz777 Posted March 31, 2005 Posted March 31, 2005 I dont think you can RMA a motherboard with a hacked bios. :confused: I know for a dvd writer, if you change the firmware to a non-factory one, warranty go bye bye! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glek_michael Posted March 31, 2005 Posted March 31, 2005 My DFi NF3 also act the same. "detecting array" appears oftenly.... Should i flashes to the orig. BIOS and RMA? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devolutionist Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 I get the same thing every once in a blue moon (noteably when I unplug or flip the switch on my PSU, re-energize, and then boot). However, my board is a NFIIU400S-AL, which is a NF2 board with SATA RAID support. Doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it seems to hang in the same spot yours is - during array detection. It shows the NVidia RAID BIOS 4.60, the phrase "DETECTING ARRAY", and then nothing. Normally it detects the array just fine, and blows right past that and into the XP boot process. If I CTRL+ALT+DEL, it always runs fine on re-boot... never hangs twice in a row. I'm pretty sure that 4.60 is the latest NVidia BIOS release for the controller, and I know other board manufacturers also have the problem in their NVRaid boards (MSI in particular), so it doesn't sound like a DFI issue. If anyone has any insight I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks /d Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devolutionist Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 FYI, just found this post from RGone: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...18&postcount=13 basically: 1) change cables 2) route cables away from UV if the above fail to fix then RMA. I personally have tried both options, so it looks like maybe I'll RMA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nToxiK Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Well I'm RMA'ing my board as well. I don't have any UV lighting in my PC so that is not the problem. DFI - what are we supposed to do about this? What is the solution? I hope that I don't get another board back from DFI with the same problem. nToxiK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikepags Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Just curious, are you using converters on the Hdd's, cause I'm having the same probs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nToxiK Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 No converters. These are Maxtor SATA 120gb 7200 drives that I was i've have had previously installed in my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe without a single RAID issue. And yes, these drives were reformatted for the DFI board. nToxiK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nToxiK Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Other threads here with the same problem: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6475 http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8952 http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6343 http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2885 nToxiK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devolutionist Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 no converters. native SATA data and power here. BTW, have used both native and legacy power on my drives, no change. bad news for me - can't rma to newegg... says i have to deal with dfi directly. /d Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nToxiK Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Anyone from DFI reading this thread? Any thoughts? nToxiK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devolutionist Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Yes, RGone is a DFI tech... the link in post #5 gives his position/analysis of the issue, which was addressed in another thread. /d Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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