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Hi all
having beeb an Abit user on all my pc's i now want to switch to the new
gigabyte board. It is only just becoming available in the uk and i can't get
my hands on one yet.
Does anyone have this board and if so does it seem to be ok. stability is my
main concern
Thanks
Grayson

 

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"Gray" <fred@one.net> wrote in message news:41fb3ad5.0@entanet...
> Hi all
> having beeb an Abit user on all my pc's i now want to switch to the new
> gigabyte board. It is only just becoming available in the uk and i can't
> get
> my hands on one yet.
> Does anyone have this board and if so does it seem to be ok. stability is
> my
> main concern
> Thanks
> Grayson
>
>

 

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:25:50 -0000, "Gray" <fred@one.net> wrote:

>Hi all
>having beeb an Abit user on all my pc's i now want to switch to the new
>gigabyte board. It is only just becoming available in the uk and i can't get
>my hands on one yet.
>Does anyone have this board and if so does it seem to be ok. stability is my
>main concern
>Thanks
>Grayson
>


Yep got one last Saturday. Running a Gainward GT6600 GS GLH card with
2x Corsair XMS Pro XL mem 2x 74Gb Raptors in Raid 0 and a AMD 64
3500+ The system is as stable as hell once installed, getting the Raid
drivers to install during XP setup was a bit problematical but got
there eventually. Brought a new Hiper Type R PSU to run it (The
Enermax 430 it replaced was fine but I wanted a PSU with the SATA
power connectors and the 24 pin Power lead).

I currently only have the CPU and memory running at stock speeds till
its been used for a while but the Vid card is running at Mem 1.18Ghz
and Core at 589Mhz which is fine as well.

Over all it seems fine for now and I will start messing with OC next
weekend

 

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Can you explain the process of installing the SATA drives in RAID 0, what
you did?

There is actually alot more to it then this, first you have numerous BIOS
options as the nForce4 Ultra chipset (same as SLI) can use a combination of
IDE and SATA drives for RAID 0, RAID 1, or a combination of RAID 0+1.

You can enable and disable both IDE and SATA RAID in the BIOS, then you have
an option for "Serial ATA 1" enable/disable - then underneath you have SATA
1 Primary RAID enable/disable - SATA 1 Secondary RAID enable/disable.

What does that option do?, then you have "Serial ATA 2" enable/disable.

What does Serial ATA 1 and 2 mean?, why does it have Primary and Secondary
for both these items when all SATA ports are supposed be all be master.

You've got 4 SATA ports on the nForce chipset, are these set up into
channels or something?

Like Serial ATA 1 = SATA port 0 (Primary) SATA port 1 (secondary)
Like Serial ATA 2 = SATA port 3 (Primary) SATA port 4 (secondary)

See i'm confused with all the BIOS options, or does Serial ATA 1 refer to
the transfer speed, as in Serial ATA 1 = 150mbps, Serial ATA 2 = 300mbps??

You can see the confusion then, and the manual is usless to explain BIOS
options, and it says's nothing about advance BIOS options when hitting
Ctrl+F1.

"Andy Lee" <arl@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:g3vqv091jjm6usimvp12rgl9d041kfg2is@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:25:50 -0000, "Gray" <fred@one.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi all
>>having beeb an Abit user on all my pc's i now want to switch to the new
>>gigabyte board. It is only just becoming available in the uk and i can't
>>get
>>my hands on one yet.
>>Does anyone have this board and if so does it seem to be ok. stability is
>>my
>>main concern
>>Thanks
>>Grayson
>>
>
>
> Yep got one last Saturday. Running a Gainward GT6600 GS GLH card with
> 2x Corsair XMS Pro XL mem 2x 74Gb Raptors in Raid 0 and a AMD 64
> 3500+ The system is as stable as hell once installed, getting the Raid
> drivers to install during XP setup was a bit problematical but got
> there eventually. Brought a new Hiper Type R PSU to run it (The
> Enermax 430 it replaced was fine but I wanted a PSU with the SATA
> power connectors and the 24 pin Power lead).
>
> I currently only have the CPU and memory running at stock speeds till
> its been used for a while but the Vid card is running at Mem 1.18Ghz
> and Core at 589Mhz which is fine as well.
>
> Over all it seems fine for now and I will start messing with OC next
> weekend

 

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:00:26 -0000, "Richard Dower"
<richarddower@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Can you explain the process of installing the SATA drives in RAID 0, what
>you did?
>
>There is actually alot more to it then this, first you have numerous BIOS
>options as the nForce4 Ultra chipset (same as SLI) can use a combination of
>IDE and SATA drives for RAID 0, RAID 1, or a combination of RAID 0+1.
>
>You can enable and disable both IDE and SATA RAID in the BIOS, then you have
>an option for "Serial ATA 1" enable/disable - then underneath you have SATA
>1 Primary RAID enable/disable - SATA 1 Secondary RAID enable/disable.
>
>What does that option do?, then you have "Serial ATA 2" enable/disable.
>
>What does Serial ATA 1 and 2 mean?, why does it have Primary and Secondary
>for both these items when all SATA ports are supposed be all be master.
>
>You've got 4 SATA ports on the nForce chipset, are these set up into
>channels or something?
>
>Like Serial ATA 1 = SATA port 0 (Primary) SATA port 1 (secondary)
>Like Serial ATA 2 = SATA port 3 (Primary) SATA port 4 (secondary)
>
>See i'm confused with all the BIOS options, or does Serial ATA 1 refer to
>the transfer speed, as in Serial ATA 1 = 150mbps, Serial ATA 2 = 300mbps??
>
>You can see the confusion then, and the manual is usless to explain BIOS
>options, and it says's nothing about advance BIOS options when hitting
>Ctrl+F1.
>


Richard

First thing to do is realise that the First four SATA Ports are run by
the NForce chipset directly these are the 4 ports along the right edge
of the board below the Power connector. The other 4 SATA ports are
controlled by the SI 3114 controller chip this is enabled in the BIOS
by the Raid 5 function

At this time I have not used this controller and is left disabled in
the Bios. I have connected the 2 drives to the top 2 Nforce SATA
connectors. In the Bios I have enabled SATA Raid and left all 4 SATA
Ports as Raid enabled. The PATA ports will not allow you to Raid
enable them, if you already have Optical devices connected to them
like I have. Once these settings are set you need to go into the
NForce raid bios by hitting F10 to configure the raid set you want
this is covered in the manual but is fairly straight forward even
without the book if you undestand the basics of Raid 1 or 0.

All 4 of the NForce SAT ports are SATA2 300Mbs the 4 SI ports are
SATA1 150Mbs.

The bit about master and secondary is a bit confusing as they are as
you mention all single device master ports.