Recent content by pgarnold

OK, I will assume the following since you didn't say: Setup your SATA with the AHCI driver as described in my first append in this thread with exception you used the drivers on the ASUS CD. You are not overclocking the system. Couple of ideas come to me: When you loaded the driver from the...

I haven't tried to overclock it yet. I hope to do this within the next month. I have been reading all about it and hope to get to 360 MHz FSB with air cooling. From what I have read, that should be do able if my processor is not bad. Just too much going on beside my PC that I need to deal...

Wilcofan, You need to set the IDE Configuration to "RAID" and then do the install of Windows using F6 to load the RAID drivers. Make sure you scroll down to get the correct driver since it will be off-screen and it won't be obvious. Since you are plugging all 3 SATA disk drives into the...

Chrone, I can't say what will work for an individual processor. This depends on the "luck of the draw" in getting a particular processor. The same exact model processor can have widely varying max overclock speed. Having said that, you should most likely be able to get to at least 3 GHz...

Chrone, The is absolutely NOT the case. This MB has been run much faster than 333 MHz by a number of folks and is one of the most popular MBs for overclockers. Check out the following thread which provides a number of tips on how to do this...

DustRider, Just in case the problem reappears, I thought I would add what I found with my new system. I had the same symptoms as you described but my problem was the result of a bad memory stick. The failure only happened after the memory had heated up. So if the system was worked hard if...

Corrylan, I don't think you are missing anything. The ICH7R south bridge feeds the Silicon Image Sil4723 chip which performs all functions in hardware to deliver the data to both hard disks plus some nice maintenance and error correction as well. Since the Sil4723 gets the full benefit of a...

Wilcofan, Suggest you just skip the F6 and control "I" part. I am not sure that is really needed for your situation. The important part, and what finally worked for me in my similiar setup, was to load the Intel Matrix Storage Manager in Windows after Windows was completely installed. This...

poolprousa, That is my understanding as well, that you can use the same two disk drives as RAID0 and RAID1 as long as you have separate disk space allocated to each RAID set. I have not tried this so I can't verify that this works from actual use. If you do get this to work, please post an...

grunt123, The default for new hardware these days is SATA 2 mode or 3.0 Gb/sec transfers so you should not have to do anything and it will default to this mode. You should know that the hardware is hard pressed to get to 1.0 Gb/sec for sustained transfer rates. Burst modes get much higher but...

godlytoys, Houseboat has a good link here but suggest you use #7 instead since it is a newer update. I'm sure #9 will work well if you have already downloaded and installed. Good Luck, Paul

I have not heard of any hardware changes but there are numerous software updates required to get things to work properly. Current Bios recommended is 1305 for overclocking. I have found that 0801 works well if not overclocking. Should get drivers for following: setup of Sata hard drives -...

After reading this whole saga, Just had to make a few comments: The JMicron is the slowest and buggiest part on an otherwise very good motherboard. It has been well documented to cause your kind of problems when hooking up to various hard disks. You should get the latest drivers from JMicron...

I was wondering if anyone has ever seen a motherboard with 2 hard disk light connectors? The Antec P180 case is the first I have seen with 2 LEDs so someone must be making a MB with 2 connectors? Paul

I agree that either will do the job. There are really two questions here: 1. What type of hardware do you want to hook up? 2. How much do you want to get into overclocking and getting every last Mhz of speed out of the motherboard? The first only you can answer based on what you want to...