Anyone using the Asrock 775 Dual VSTA and SATA?

[chrone]

btw, how is your new hdd? is it running fine now?

 

[13thmonkey]

Still waiting for new one to arrive, old IDE is fine as always though.

I managed to get 14% OC (305Mhz) without changing Ram settings, prime stable too, so I might try slackening the timings, as at 310 it would not boot. But to be honest it made no difference other than running hotter, which I'd rather it didn't do, I did go from 21s to 19s at 1M SuperPi, not sure of the real world benefits of that though...

Have you put your temps into the Core2 temp survey. I think it might help the community at large.

 

[chrone]

oh i see.

i've read the thread but i don't have the software they used to record temperature yet. perhaps tomorrow night i will download the software and record it.

i'm currently use speedfan, cpuz. haven't searched the internet about the TAT and the burning cpu software test and where to get 'em.

 

[13thmonkey]

all links are provided. took me 30mins in total..

 

[chrone]

oops. i should read the whole post again. hehe thanks for the info

 

[oz3050]

I just got an Asrock 775Dual-VSTA and im trying to boot of a SATA drive and it's a no go. The SATA drive boots fine in another computer, the Asrock board boots fine with a non-SATA drive, the SATA drive is properly detected, BIOS is updated to 1.90, Non-RAID is selected, Spread Spectrum is disabled. When i try to boot off the SATA drive i get "A disk read error occured press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" Anyone have any ideas?

 

[chrone]

have you jumpered your drive to SATA I? asrock 775dual-vsta only supports SATA I drive.

i have no problem with western digital caviar se sata II 120gb 8mb cache jumpered to sata I, and seagate barracude 7200.7 sata I 120gb 8mb cache. running fine for both non-RAID and RAID option (you have to install the F6 diskette SCSI/RAID driver from floppy disk first if the RAID option enabled).

good luck

 

[oz3050]

I don't see any jumpers on the drive. As far as i know it's SATA I only

 

[chrone]

what hdd are you using now?

the western digital caviar se didn't come up with jumper attached, i had to use other jumper from old cd-rom and plugged it to the drive. but if you are sure it's sata I then try to clear the CMOS (read how to clear CMOS from the motherboard manual). and use re-set the BIOS option to default setting except for the IDE configuration set it to non-raid. if it fails too then i don't know what's wrong..

 

[mypobox]

i have this MB but im running PATA now. I have read that if you use the SATA you cant have anything plugged into the PATA channels. Im sure there is a way to get a cdrom to work with SATA but id start troubleshooting the issue by unplugging all the drive and to boot with only the SATA hooked up. I know you need to boot from a cdrom but im sure you can figure something out.

ps. you may even want to try to disable the PATA controller in bios.

 

[oz3050]

It's a Hitachi Deskstar T7K250, which is SATA II (didn't know if i had the T7K250 or just 7K250). There's no jumper settings on the drive at all and from the Hitachi website it seems you have use a drive utility off a bootable CD to change it to SATA I or II. But whatever the default was the Asrock still detected it fine and when I booted off of an IDE drive my T7K250 was fully accessible in Windows. The only problem i have is i can't boot from the T7K250 with the Asrock board.

 

[niz]

Same mobo, two 150 MB raptors in raid 0. Not had a single problem yet whatsoever.

 

[oz3050]

I used the Hitachi Feature Tool Utilities and selected 1.5Gb/s and disabled spread spectrum (this was all default) and still same old "A disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart" I also tried disconnecting all devices except the hard drive and same thing. How do i disable the PATA controller?

 

[chrone]

i believe it's still running in sata II mode, that is exactly what was happenned with me when i insisted running in sata II mode and got the error blablabla message, plus could not boot, with an old p4v8x-x (using via chipsets which only support sata I).

is there any written manual on the top of the harddisk which leads you how to jumpered it to sata I?

seagate hdd doesn't need a jumper to run in sata I mode, i think it automatically detect what mode to run with. i've tried to run seagate barracuda 7200.10 sata II 320gb 16mb cache, and installed it, and run fine. since it's not mine so i gave it back to whom it's belong.

i don't have time to look for hitachi picture and manual from their site. perhaps later in the evening. so good luck until then!

 

[oz3050]

The only thing i know of is Hitachi's Features Tool program where you can change the interface. It doesn't exactly say SATA I or II but lets you select between 1.5gb/s and 3.0gb/s, i assume it's the samething. You make a boot disk or cd with that program and boot from it and you can change features on the hard drive, such as 1.5gb/s or 3.0gb/s. That's the only way i know of switching between SATA I and II for this drive. I guess what i need to do is find someone else with a 775dual-vsta and T7K2250 HDD and figure out what the hell they did.

 

[chrone]

oh yeah i've looked to their site, no backpanel picture so can't see is there a jumper or not. but in the general specification & overview it says that it's backward compatible to sata I.

have you contact asrock technical support for this troubleshooting? they're not very fast in response: 1-3 days, but they'll try to solve your problem.

 

[oz3050]

Here's the reply i got

Dear Sir,

Thank you for contacting ASRock.

Have you tested your SATA HDD on another PC? Did it boot on another PC?



Please test your SATAHDD on another PC and refer below steps for try.

1. Disable Spread Spectrum

BIOS > Advanced > CPU Configuration > Spread Spectrum > Disable.

2. Test different SATA ports

3. Change another SATA cable.



If not, please contact your HDD dealer to help test and update HDD firmware for try.





Best Wishes

ASRock



I've done all that minus the Firmware changes. I've contacted Hitachi about updates and after some emails, they gave me a cd image to boot from but when i ran the program it said no firmware update is needed. My only option was to exit and restart. I told them about it and haven't gotten a reply yet.

 

[chrone]

almost the same reply with mine which told to try the agp card into another system and vice versa. but there was another reply which said that they had tried the same vga chipset and didn't have any problem. perhaps right now they're still trying to get a hitachi hdd sample and test it on the asrock 775dual-vsta motherboard.

considering sata cable, most of the cable in the market are still sata I cable. i don't know how to differentiate a sata II cable from the sata I one, since i never meet any before.

sorry can't help you much more..

 

[oz3050]

I just happen to have another T7K225 SATA that's brand new and after a fresh format when i try to install Windows XP, "Setup is analyzing you hardware setup" flashes quickly then i get a blank screen (monitor LED still green), the CD drive spins up then nothing. I left it running for 15 minutes and it just stayed a blank screen, no Windows installer

 

[chrone]

oh yeah i forgot. i forgot where i read this from but in a certain case, the pata or other ide drive should be unplug first, so you only use your sata and cd/dvd rom for the installation, and after the installation success, you could easily plug your pata or other ide drive.

have you tried it yet?

 

[oz3050]

The only drives i had plugged in where the CD drive and SATA HDD. I've also tried just the SATA HDD with Windows already installed and it gave me the same "disk read error". Someone mentioned disabling the PATA in the BIOS but i don't see anything about PATA in there. The only thing i haven't tried is installing SATA drivers but to my understanding that's only if you're using the RAID function (I have no-raid selected in the BIOS). I lack a floppy disk right now so that's the only reason i haven't tried. That's tomorrow adgenda if i can find one.

 

[niz]

i have this MB but im running PATA now. I have read that if you use the SATA you cant have anything plugged into the PATA channels. Im sure there is a way to get a cdrom to work with SATA but id start troubleshooting the issue by unplugging all the drive and to boot with only the SATA hooked up. I know you need to boot from a cdrom but im sure you can figure something out.

ps. you may even want to try to disable the PATA controller in bios.

umm nope not true.

I have the same motherboard with two (sata) 150gb raptors as raid 0, a pata 200gb WD drive and a pata dvd drive. Its all working fine.

 

[oz3050]

OK, i got Windows to start installing but after it does the first restart and tries to boot it just hangs on a blank screen with a cursor in the top left. I tried installing the RAID drivers too at the begining of setup and that didn't help either. I tried selecting both RAID and NON-RAID and when i select non-raid it gives me the disk read error ctrl alt del to restart. I just don't get why this damn thing won't work. What more can i do?

 

[oz3050]

I got it working. Don't ask me what i did cause i've F'd with it so much these past 2 days i don't know what i did and what i didn't. The bad thing is in the process i lost everything on my hard drive. What's worse is i thought i had a back up of my Windows XP key but i guess not. I've got 30 days to come up with something.

 

[asimons999]

its so confusing all the reviews on this board.. good bad?

you think a 80 gig ide, fx5500, 2 x 512 (single channel) ddr 1, dvd rom, and burner.. using the core 2 duo e6300 will run fine?

would any of these cards be restricted by this board..

7600gs, 7600gt, 7800gt?

Im think of getting on of them, and as i can afford it.. get a sata hdd, ddr2 ram..

because getting anything else besides these dual interface boards that support core 2 duo.. i think the core 2 duo is out of my means..

would i better off getting a amd 3700+ with a agp mobo because it would be cheap? and putting no more then a 7600gs in ? and just get a new system later on (much later )


give us your thoughts.