Asus A8V Deluxe (not SLI)

Millsy · 07-30-2005, 03:16 PM

My current problem with this board is this.
I have 2 80 GB IDE Seagate drives in RaiD 0
I have a SATA 120GB Drive on it's own connected to the VIA chipset because you can't have a NON-raid drive connected to the Promise SATA controller if the IDE controller is set to raid (this is sooooo dumb)

I just got 2 200GB SATA seagate drives, and promptly connected them to the promise controller intending to raid them. I setup the raid array, and windows detects them correctly. However, it fails to format them (taking the full time to figure out it didn't work) and I keep getting event viewer entries that say

Event ID 9

The device, \Device\Scsi\fasttx2k1, did not respond within the timeout period.

I have tried updating the bios on my motherboard, they had a "beta" bios on Asus's website for a while, but I got CRC checksum errors when checking the bios so I had to downgrade to the latest released version.

Any ideas on how to fix these issues? I'm really REALLY sick of the Asus mother boards I've had, and am thinking about just saying screw it and getting a new one.

Current system is as follows:

AMD 64 3500
1gb TwinX Corsair 3200 Ram
2X80GB, 120GB, 2X200GB HDD
Geforce 6800GT
Sound ******* audigy 2

**linderman** · 07-30-2005, 05:10 PM

Well all I can say to hopefully help you out / is buy a PCI card SATA controller / I have helped three friends out now with computer builds / we spent gads of time on trying to stabilize two of them when using a combination of Sata , ide / the third system we didnt even go for the contoller fight / spent the $35.00 or $40.00 at newegg.com and (for all three machines) and lived happily ever after / My personal opinion (which isnt worth a cup of coffee) is the IDE controller at this time is unable to uniformily and reliably run all those configurations !!! even when you are using the promise and fastrak , silicon contollers etc / they all have to work in conjunction with the IDE controller and that just plain gets messy !!

The pci card sata contoller has its own bios therfore runs alot more independently than the onboard versions / I dont doubt in the near future the mobo (all of them !!) makers will iron out the kinks in the controllers / but for now it just doesnt make sense to fight an uphill battle.

I have seen some systems wake up and run right after you remove all ide drives from the system until the OS gets loaded and becomes stable / then added the ide drives and they ran alright

I have tried systems that adding the ide drives while trying to get the OS smoothed out made it stabilize better ???

I have seen several posts in here where the sata drives got up and running and then performance just slowly erroded until the drives got soooo slow they crashed. But I havent seen anyone complaining of performance problems or configuration problems when using the sata card controllers.

go figure ?????

regards

joe

07-30-2005, 03:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Millsy Tech, Microsoft Computing Forums Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alberta Canada Posts: 92 OS: Win2k3	Asus A8V Deluxe (not SLI) My current problem with this board is this. I have 2 80 GB IDE Seagate drives in RaiD 0 I have a SATA 120GB Drive on it's own connected to the VIA chipset because you can't have a NON-raid drive connected to the Promise SATA controller if the IDE controller is set to raid (this is sooooo dumb) I just got 2 200GB SATA seagate drives, and promptly connected them to the promise controller intending to raid them. I setup the raid array, and windows detects them correctly. However, it fails to format them (taking the full time to figure out it didn't work) and I keep getting event viewer entries that say Event ID 9 The device, \Device\Scsi\fasttx2k1, did not respond within the timeout period. I have tried updating the bios on my motherboard, they had a "beta" bios on Asus's website for a while, but I got CRC checksum errors when checking the bios so I had to downgrade to the latest released version. Any ideas on how to fix these issues? I'm really REALLY sick of the Asus mother boards I've had, and am thinking about just saying screw it and getting a new one. Current system is as follows: AMD 64 3500 1gb TwinX Corsair 3200 Ram 2X80GB, 120GB, 2X200GB HDD Geforce 6800GT Sound ******* audigy 2 __________________ http://www.tjscustomcomputers.com/images/msteam3.JPG My work truck can kick your work truck's butt

07-30-2005, 05:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 19,370 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Well all I can say to hopefully help you out / is buy a PCI card SATA controller / I have helped three friends out now with computer builds / we spent gads of time on trying to stabilize two of them when using a combination of Sata , ide / the third system we didnt even go for the contoller fight / spent the $35.00 or $40.00 at newegg.com and (for all three machines) and lived happily ever after / My personal opinion (which isnt worth a cup of coffee) is the IDE controller at this time is unable to uniformily and reliably run all those configurations !!! even when you are using the promise and fastrak , silicon contollers etc / they all have to work in conjunction with the IDE controller and that just plain gets messy !! The pci card sata contoller has its own bios therfore runs alot more independently than the onboard versions / I dont doubt in the near future the mobo (all of them !!) makers will iron out the kinks in the controllers / but for now it just doesnt make sense to fight an uphill battle. I have seen some systems wake up and run right after you remove all ide drives from the system until the OS gets loaded and becomes stable / then added the ide drives and they ran alright I have tried systems that adding the ide drives while trying to get the OS smoothed out made it stabilize better ??? I have seen several posts in here where the sata drives got up and running and then performance just slowly erroded until the drives got soooo slow they crashed. But I havent seen anyone complaining of performance problems or configuration problems when using the sata card controllers. go figure ????? regards joe __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day ! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial Last edited by linderman; 07-30-2005 at 05:21 PM.