p4g8x sata hd
Herbert Meister
the raid bios says I can enter the bios by F4 or Ctrl+s but nothing
happens. The HD is displayed on screen but nothing happens. Bios Version
is 1005. What can I do?
Spathi
Make sure you have the latest BIOS 1007 beta, and the correct version
of the Silicon Image drivers (it is not the newest one) and the correct
raid client (only one of them kicks of the rebuild of the raid
properly). Do not use RAID until you have this BIOS installed and
matching driver installed. Do not install any windows update drivers
for this or you will be sorry, go to Silicon Image.
It works, I have been using it since release, but you need the latest
stuff above or data will corrupt copying between any disks (on raid or
without raid... from sata to sata, sata to ide, ide to sata). It might
not give you any performance boost on new disks, but it will save you
data if a disk blows or rebuild a disk it if you pc crashes due to
corruption. Let me know if you need any more details.
I would be interested in how you go with 750 as I want to go from 320
to 1000+ gig next year.
Also on this MB with a 3.06CPU you can increase the FSB to 142 to OC
the CPU for a bit of a performance boost (lock the pci/agp bus to
33.33/66.67) and keep the ram at 2/2/2/6. higher than 142 and the ram
will go to a higher latency.
(2.4CPU set fsb to 167, 2.8CPU set it to 148.)
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Herbert Meister
> Herbert Meister;790689 Wrote:
>> I try to install a 750GB Samsung SATA HD into my p4g8x. At boot sequence
>>
>> the raid bios says I can enter the bios by F4 or Ctrl+s but nothing
>> happens. The HD is displayed on screen but nothing happens. Bios
>> Version
>> is 1005. What can I do?
>
> Make sure you have the latest BIOS 1007 beta, and the correct version
Can I istall the 1007 on the basic P4G8X (not the deluxe version)? Asus
only shows me the 1006 for my board (1007 on the site for the deluxe
version).
Herbert Meister
situation that booting stops at SATA bios displaying my HD and nothing
more happens.
Spathi
Not sure, I have seen something like that when I had a second monitor
plugged in, but thats about it.
You would need to make sure the Sil bios in the bios is ok for your
board. Maybe ask ASUS.
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Spathi
Spathi;790940 Wrote:
> Not sure, I have seen something like that when I had a second monitor
> plugged in, but thats about it.
>
> You would need to make sure the Sil bios in the bios is ok for your
> board. Maybe ask ASUS.
>
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com
> but from what you say, I do not think it is getting that far.
here it is, in all its glory, why they do not post it in their drivers
section I have no idea...
http://tinyurl.com/26fklr
I am not sure of the version of sil bios it has, but...
when you get this file don't forget to update you xp drivers to the
correct version of sil drivers.
also it may corrupt existing sata partitions so make sure you image
them.
I am going to grab it, hopefully it will mean we can install vista!
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Spathi
One last thing to try...
"If the SI controller was disabled, then nothing attached to it could
be detected.".. Someone said that on the ASUS forums yesterday.
I also added some information on how to set up the RAID to the ASUS
forum.
I also made a new BIOS... so it is possible, it seems to work and now
vista says the Controller is compliant.
I inserted Sil bios 4284.bin and now use driver 1.0.60.0
Use acbrom from BNTBTC, to make your own.. (back up your system first)
You need to "1007_002.bin /ata release" and add the "/ata 4284 bin"
Also, use SATARaid 1.0.0.26 to manage the array in windows, JAVARaid is
made for sil addin cards I think.
Note I have P4G8X Deluxe so there may be differences, (maybe you need a
different sil bios if it does not have RAID I have never looked at P4G8X
Standard)
Cheers
Will
http://fileant.com
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Herbert Meister
I am thinking about just buying a SATA controller card and use that. I
am not sure if I want to 'experiment' with bios-firmware modification
(if I understand you right). This sounds a bit adventurous to me. On the
other hand it would be the last board I would need a controller card for
SATA.
Spathi
They sent me 1007 and I looked inside it.
It (1007) has the sil 83 BIOS not 84 BIOS, it should be OK though it
will still fix your problem.
I can send you the one I did if you like, find my email at the web
address above.
(Edit: actually I will make you one from the 1006 standard, this would
be better for you I would guess.
If you want me to swap the EPA logo as well, send me the one you want
me to put in... looks cool.
just google... "epa logos" bios)
I flashed mine a few days ago and it still alive, I have rebuilt the
array and everything as a test.
Hard to find change info, but as you can see 83-84 is not much...
v4.3.70
Release Enhancements and Fixes
1. Added BIOS support for 2TB hard disk drives
2. Added EDD-3 int48h support
Known Issues
1. SiI3512 BIOS 4.3.70 does not detect Lite-on DVD
v4.3.83
Problems resolved
1. Blank CD-R in CD or DVD-ROM causes startup failure.
2. Systems that incorrectly relay shared interrupts prevent startup.
Changes made
1. Set RAID1 rebuild rate to top priority of 100 at initialization.
2. Change copyright to 2007.
v4.3.84
1. A system with 2 ODDs attached to a Sii3112 may not boot.
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Herbert Meister
Spathi
Herbert Meister;791943 Wrote:
> You have mail (I send it via computerbanter forum too)
k, no problem, I will do it tomorrow night
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Herbert Meister
letters). Installed it, installed Sil driver 1.0.60.0 and it worked so
far. I copied some files to the new drive and it all looked ok. Copying
from one drive was a bit slow but this may be due to the old drive or
something else.
Spathi
Spathi;791969 Wrote:
> k, no problem, I will do it tomorrow night
k, I checked the 1006 and it looks the same as deluxe, download
1007_084 from
my spare server, I will leave it there for a few years and update it if
I ever need to. It has a kenny logo so don't freak out, info is in the
readme, make sure your read it.
http://newbling.net
If it does not work with P4G8X standard let me know.
Cheers
oh and I flashed it with the windows asus update tool
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Herbert Meister
1007_084 worked too. I only had to wonder why Partition Magic says the
formated HD type was wrong geometry. Tried to go back to 1007 from asus
but same thing. After reformatting this message was gone. The only thing
is left is a new (IRQ?) conflict with my soundcard.
Spathi
I would trust BootItNG more than Partition Magic.
Is it a PCI SoundCard or the onboard one. If it is PCI then put it in
slot 2 or 4 (and turn off the onboard one in the BIOS), the MB manual
explains the slots and what IRQ's are shared where. 2 and 4 are not
used by the southbridge so are best for cards.
Turn off everything PCI related in the BIOS you do not use to save
IRQ's.. com ports, printer ports, firewire ports, consider removing and
floppy disk drives from the case and turn that off. I even got a USB2
card to move USB2 off the chipset :oP.
Other things to try/check...
Make sure APIC is on. PnP OS=Yes. UCSW on. Memory Auto, Turbo
Set PCI Latency to 64 in the BIOS (I also adjust the video card to 192
and USB1.1's to 16 and USB2 to 32 in windows using this...
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=9733
)
(Try FSB 142 AND IMPORTANT, if you try this then LOCK PCI BUS to
33.3/66.6 or a tiny bit more)
If the PCI BUS is not close to 33.3 your hard disks will most likely
corrupt (a tiny bit over is probably ok) the disks probably use the
33.3 (or whatever it is set to) to place the tracks so the higher it is
the closer they get! I assume if you change PCI freq after a format the
disk runs the risk of missing tracks... change it without doing low
level format afterwards and you run the risk of losing sector zero
(this is just a guess though, never googled it much).
So if you did something like this.. format again.
and check this out...
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=545072
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