Wraithlok

Super new to this.. i have some premium components and will fiddle with them much farther down the line once I get up to speed on exactly HOW to do it... which I am working on slowly but steadily Here is my question: I would love a moderate overclock that I could input now to get some speed and performance increases and NOT have to worry about overcooking the thing... cooling on air and rest in sig and no i won't blame you if something f's up

how do you set your HTT to 5:4 or even 1:1.. is that your LDT/FSB and CPU/FSB ratio? I.e set the first one to 5 second one to 4? good lord i'm a frickin noob ><

tried the reinstallation of the driver.. still no go... thinking that maybe just one of the drives went bad? it's the only thing I can think of

roger.. has to be something else then thanks

Question: I have posted this in the Nf4 forums but i am having some issues with my LSIU160 card and it reading my two raid 0 drives (in sig) I updated my bios to 704-2 beta, however, no mater what I do I can't get windows to read one of the drives... everywhere I look on the storage forums (sysopt etc etc) it says that 99% of the time it is a bios problem Have you heard of anything along this lines that it could be your bios? pulling out my hair here

I'm guessing........... 801

did some more digging.. could it be the bios? The number #1 thing that all the storage forums say elsewhere is that typically it is the bios I am using Tmod's from his CD... could that be the issue somehow? thanks

I believe that the LSIU160 is just a SCSI reader so that you can then stripe it in windows... i do not believe that it has hardware raid.. although I am thinking more and more that the way to go may be that way... As for reading both in the begining no it does not.. I can't figure out why either.. here is the rub though. When I enter the Suymbios SCSI config utility (the hardware one on the card) during boot up this is what it tells me Adapter PCI Bus Dev Func Port # IRQ NVM Boot order LSI LOGIC CONTROL <53c1010-33 1 30 AC00 10 YES 0 Enabled <53c1010-33 1 31 A800 11 YES 1 Enabled I have jumpers set on the first SCSI but not on the second (the second without jumpers is at the terminator end). I dont' get it though as I don't believe I ever had it with jumpers.. that could be the issue though.. i'll take a look in the product manual But from what I can see that through the symbios utility it reads both of them.. do they both have to somehow have the same boot order since they are striped as raid 0? or were striped as raid 0

Good call on the HD jumper!!! being the wizkid that I am it was in Master vice "single" oops OK as for the second.. this one is a bit more complex I think then just assigning it a raid drive in windows disk management (I think) First off it shows both disks in the Device Manager section (as in they are both working) but when I go to Disk Management I do the following 1) click on Disk managment 2) There are three drives a) Disk 0 (dynamic ; foriegn) with a triangle and a ! at the icon B) Disk 1 (basic) This is my OS disk... shows it healthy etc etc c) CD-ROM 0 (windows CD in there for right now) makes sense right? disk a is the one I want right? well I right click, go to import foreign disks and it pops up a screen that says [check mark] Foreign disk group (1 of 1 disks) Now wait.. I thought it should be two disks .. since there are two in raid 0 config right? This further makes me wonder that something is wrong when I press ok and it says Striped Volume Data Incomplete 70080 MB and gives me a warning " Some of the volumes you are importing will loose data because you have not moved all your disks to this system. Are you sure that you want to continue?" To be on the safe side I click no... What's going on here.. is windows not reading both? the disks are each 36 gigs big or so so the 70 gig means that maybe they both are being read? the last thing I want to do is import it and loose the drives because they weren't being read right any ideas? thanks again for your help!

Hiya 1) After installing windows over again and downloading SP2 etc.. i find that my computer is acting VERY strange on bootups One thing it does is that it won't boot up without the boot priority set to CD then HD then removable (and it has to have a windows XP disc in the cd slot!) If i set it to HDD first it just hangs right after Backup CMOS.... OK! Anyone have any clue here? And what could cause the PAINFULLY slow boot up times? 2) this one seems a bit tougher. I had to completely clean and reinstall windows on a HDD due to it being corrupted. The HDD i have is a 40 gig drive that I just use for windows alone (i have a 500 gig drive on it's way). It is a IDE and setup in the Primary Master IDE Slot on the board. here is my issue.. I use a LSIU160 SCSI controller in the second to last PCI slot for two 15k rpm drives... before my reinstallation of windows I had these guys setup in a raid 0 config that I ran my games off of. While I lost my main drive (the one with windows) the other drives I am pretty sure are ok.. BUT no matter what I do I can't get them to show up under the "my computer tab" They are recognized by the bios as well as the computer in the begining, however, soon as windows boots up they are as good as gone... the REALLY weird part is that when I go into System Device Manager and look at the "hard drives" tab .. they show up there!?! I've been posting a lot recently all with various issues... it seems that when a power surge came through and toasted my PSU the problems keep on coming (replaced psu with one in my sig below). Any suggestions? Just want to get this sucker back up and running like it used to be (stable 1 year!) thanks again

OK stupid question.. I am attempting to get mine fired up as well *(sli)* do I have both cards installed the entire time? or just one until a certain point

negative....my hdd is conected via sata 1

I don't get it I am using one stick of ram in the far orange slot, have 1 hdd setup and my vid cards (in sli), 1 DVD 1 CDROM plugged in and of course the floppy drive Now when I go and try to install windows it goes through the format / file copy process then resets... and goes right back into the windows setup screen as if nothing has happened. So to be on the safe side try the install again.. no joy I tried 3 different windows xp discs (some are recovery disks from dell for my laptop etc).. no joy any ideas? am I missing something? Reason why I am posting here not on a windows forum is that my friend had mentioned to me at one point he had a similar problem and it was his RAM and MOBO which were the root of it. Any help would as always be appreciated

*UPDATE* OK first off these guys at pc power and cooling are awesome.. it took about 10 min on the phone and I have fixed the power issue. The trick is as follows (this is for the 1kw quad sli psu) 1) use the 8 pin to 4 pin molex adapter for the cpu power line.. it does not matter which one of the two 8 pin lines you connect the adapter to , just that you use one of these 2) use the 4 pin molex to 4 pin HDD adapter when connecting to the HDD power connector on the board. This is super easy to spot which one as it is the only line from the psu that requires an adapter to work (it's the 4 pin molex male end) 3) DO NOT PLUG IN THE FLOPPY POWER CONNECTOR ON THE BOARD! after I do all of these it powers up normally... thanks again to bob and james at PC Power and cooling as well as ExRoadie and the others that helped me through my issue... now time to return this asus sli deluxe board i had bought in case this didn't work -Wraith

OK back at my house the adapters that are here are as follows: 1) 4 pin HDD connector (like the one that gets inputed into the board) female to a 4 pin molex (as in the p4 connector) 2) a 4 pin molex p4 female to a 4 pin molex p4 female 3) a 8 pin female to a 4 pin p4 female i have tried the following setups 1) using the 4 pin female to female connector with the 4 pin male connector wire from the psu... no luck 2) using the 8 pin female to 4 pin female connector .. no luck Currently for the HDD and the Floppy connectors on the board I have a single line coming from the psu that has them both on the same wire (4 pin hdd and 4 pin floppy) I am assuming the trick here is to get the 4 pin p4 12v connector correct does it matter which wire I use specifically from the psu? I am going to place another call to pc power and cooling and ask them (for the record Bob mentioned removing one of the 4pin connectors that are on the board (he said it was an aux issue shorting it out) and that didn't work either more to come PS: I apologize for the dumbed down version here... while I am not dumb I am very new to this whole thing and most likely sound like a 3rd grader to you experts out there