ASUS Motherboard with Raid - Page 3

Chizl · 01-07-2006, 11:29 PM

Ok, It's started creating the raid 1.. Says Duplicating.. This may take a while, since it set for 1 min, before one red mark showed up.. Guessing going to be 30 min or so..

By the way can you post the link for my motherboard manual?

Chizl · 01-07-2006, 11:37 PM

By the way, how do I know if I have the right drivers for the raid? I know I looked it up about 4 months ago on Alienware and I think I found it was VT6420, but when I'm in the raid config, creating the array, I noticed at the top it says VT8237 SATA Raid Bios Ver 2.01. Does that mean I have the wrong ones on Disk?

Chizl · 01-07-2006, 11:41 PM

Should I download these instead?

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/via-sata.html

**mgoldb2** · 01-07-2006, 11:48 PM

Manual
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/a8v-deluxe/e1878_a8v_deluxe.pdf

The manual says to use fdisk but to me that more of a pre windows xp requirment. You should be able to paritiion your computer through the windows xp setup instead. Skip the fdisk step unless it wont let you install windows. At least in the past when I done similar RAID setups I had no need to fdisk before installing windows xp.

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Should I download these instead?

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/via-sata.html

Am not 100% sure those are the correct ones for you yet so I would just use the ones that came with your computer.

Chizl · 01-07-2006, 11:52 PM

Thanks.. The red bar is about 7/8 full..

**mgoldb2** · 01-07-2006, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

By the way, how do I know if I have the right drivers for the raid? I know I looked it up about 4 months ago on Alienware and I think I found it was VT6420, but when I'm in the raid config, creating the array, I noticed at the top it says VT8237 SATA Raid Bios Ver 2.01. Does that mean I have the wrong ones on Disk?

Oh I thought you had some that came with your computer. I believe the VT6420 is the PATA raid controller. in your computer you can both do PATA raid and SATA raid. since your harddrive are SATA you using the SATA controller which am guessing is VT8237.

I would download them stright from ASUS instead of there.

I blieve these are the correct drivers
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mis...aid_100137.zip

Which I got from this page
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...l=A8V%20Deluxe

They are the promise 378 drivers v 1.00.1.37 about have way down the link. The first link will download it stright for you but I gave you the other link so you know what I gave you.

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:06 AM

Ok, it's creating the new disk now.. On the Raid It's done.. Should I select Boot Array or exit screen?

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:09 AM

ok, this is a weird one.. After MakeDisk.exe finished, I tried accessing the disk and it tells me the disk isn't formated, do I want too? But I formated it, just before I ran MakeDisk.exe.

**mgoldb2** · 01-08-2006, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

Ok, it's creating the new disk now.. On the Raid It's done.. Should I select Boot Array or exit screen?

Acording to the manual is should say

ARRAY has been created

press any key to reboot.

I would put the windows xp disk in and hit any key to reboot the system.

**mgoldb2** · 01-08-2006, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

ok, this is a weird one.. After MakeDisk.exe finished, I tried accessing the disk and it tells me the disk isn't formated, do I want too? But I formated it, just before I ran MakeDisk.exe.

All that should be un-needed. After creating the array I would just boot from windows xp disk and see if you can install it. do all formating from windows xp setup.

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:15 AM

No luck on the WinXP install.. Same thing, "Windows Setup" blue screen, nothing shows up at the bottom, CD quits spinning, just sits there..

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:17 AM

Just so you know, I'm not offline, no matter what that little ball under my name on the left says.. I think I've tired out the little graphics on this forum.. lol

**mgoldb2** · 01-08-2006, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

No luck on the WinXP install.. Same thing, "Windows Setup" blue screen, nothing shows up at the bottom, CD quits spinning, just sits there..

I dont think this is a harddrive problem because it not even getting to the point it uses the harddrive. I believe it loads things into ram before it installs anything on the harddrive.

Do you have a floppy drive in your computer? If so I want you to make windows xp boot disks. in bios in boot menu, device priority set floopy 1, cd/drive 2, harddrive 3. Then boot from the floopy disks. you will need about 6 floopy disks to make the boot disks.

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:25 AM

That's what I was doing before we started this process.. I was using 6 floppy disk.. It was doing the same thing.

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:27 AM

You know what I just realized in Bios.. My CD Rom is setup as Master. That would be why I couldn't get my IDE drive to come up. Could that be the problem with Windows as well?

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:30 AM

Yea, tried to do it from Floppies again still same issue.. Is it possible that since my CDRom is setup as the MASTER IDE, that windows is trying to copy tmp files over from the CD to the Master IDE, which in the case isn't possible?

**blackduck30** · 01-08-2006, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

ok, this is a weird one.. After MakeDisk.exe finished, I tried accessing the disk and it tells me the disk isn't formated, do I want too? But I formated it, just before I ran MakeDisk.exe.

you need this to be accesable or your drivers will not load, do you have another floppy to try and create a driver disk

also how many drives do you have and what is your total boot order, does the array show up in that boot order ?

**mgoldb2** · 01-08-2006, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Chizl

Yea, tried to do it from Floppies again still same issue.. Is it possible that since my CDRom is setup as the MASTER IDE, that windows is trying to copy tmp files over from the CD to the Master IDE, which in the case isn't possible?

Dont think so because I believe it goes from floppy to ram at the very begining or cd rom to ram.

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by blackduck30

you need this to be accesable or your drivers will not load, do you have another floppy to try and create a driver disk

The floppy is accessible. I copied files to it, I deleted them, I formated it, but when I run MakeDisk it said it created the disk, but the floppy couldn't be accessed once it was done. Something is screwed up with that MakeDisk.exe

Chizl · 01-08-2006, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mgoldb2

Dont think so because I believe it goes from floppy to ram at the very begining or cd rom to ram.

So does that mean there is possibly a ram issue?

01-07-2006, 11:29 PM	#41 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Ok, It's started creating the raid 1.. Says Duplicating.. This may take a while, since it set for 1 min, before one red mark showed up.. Guessing going to be 30 min or so.. By the way can you post the link for my motherboard manual? __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum Last edited by Chizl; 01-07-2006 at 11:30 PM.

01-07-2006, 11:37 PM	#42 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	By the way, how do I know if I have the right drivers for the raid? I know I looked it up about 4 months ago on Alienware and I think I found it was VT6420, but when I'm in the raid config, creating the array, I noticed at the top it says VT8237 SATA Raid Bios Ver 2.01. Does that mean I have the wrong ones on Disk? __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-07-2006, 11:41 PM	#43 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Should I download these instead? http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/via-sata.html __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-07-2006, 11:52 PM	#45 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Thanks.. The red bar is about 7/8 full.. __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:06 AM	#47 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Ok, it's creating the new disk now.. On the Raid It's done.. Should I select Boot Array or exit screen? __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:09 AM	#48 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	ok, this is a weird one.. After MakeDisk.exe finished, I tried accessing the disk and it tells me the disk isn't formated, do I want too? But I formated it, just before I ran MakeDisk.exe. __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:15 AM	#51 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	No luck on the WinXP install.. Same thing, "Windows Setup" blue screen, nothing shows up at the bottom, CD quits spinning, just sits there.. __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:17 AM	#52 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Just so you know, I'm not offline, no matter what that little ball under my name on the left says.. I think I've tired out the little graphics on this forum.. lol __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:25 AM	#54 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	That's what I was doing before we started this process.. I was using 6 floppy disk.. It was doing the same thing. __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:27 AM	#55 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	You know what I just realized in Bios.. My CD Rom is setup as Master. That would be why I couldn't get my IDE drive to come up. Could that be the problem with Windows as well? __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum

01-08-2006, 12:30 AM	#56 (permalink)
Chizl Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 OS: XP Pro	Yea, tried to do it from Floppies again still same issue.. Is it possible that since my CDRom is setup as the MASTER IDE, that windows is trying to copy tmp files over from the CD to the Master IDE, which in the case isn't possible? __________________ - Chizl My Comp Specs Its a door stop no more, thanks to TechSupportForum