bahs new pootah not booting :(

[Roo Stercogburn]

Stupid question perhaps but not seen it mentioned above: are you providing enough power to the graphics card and if it requires direct cabling into your power supply, are the cables feeding it working correctly?

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Whoops missed the page 2 stuff. Glad you fixed it

 

[Scouse]

So, the scary, sweaty and potentially expensive bit came where I took a needle (you really need something that small and tiny) and from the other end of the L so to speak I slowly and carefully worked the bent thing back to a somewhat more erect state

Nice. I've done that a couple of times. It's no fun

 

[TdC]

It might be a compatibility issue because your memory and board even if we did think it shouldn't cause a major issue perhaps we were wrong

The reality is every so often a BIOS tends to appear to improve memory compatibility, for example the P6T Deluxe has had 5 BIOS updates that include some improvement to memory compatibility but so far none of the ones released for P6T SE include this.

Fingers crossed either way

bahs, I connected the other three disks and now it BSODs again

not been able to get the install to work at all. going to try with one disk and then we'll see

 

[TdC]

ok so it BSOD's when it's in RAID mode and it doesn't when it's not. driver issue ffs

I wonder if I get a sata DVD drive so I can bypass the jmicron controller that turns on when the IDE ribbon cable is in :/

 

[Ch3tan]

I'd really be taking the mobo back at this point teedles, it doesn't do what you need happily, and it WAS damaged.

 

[TdC]

you think so Ch3t? I'll mail them and see.

 

[TdC]

ok there is news:

I have a new mobo, the same model, an Asus P6T SE.

First try I was optimistic, connected all disks and installed right into an insta-BSOD just like the other mobo. Also, this time the BSODs seemed to occur even in IDE mode, so I was extremely pissed off, but managed to get my head around persevering with testing the mobo.

After a while I discovered that in certain configurations, Windows install would only see three disks instead of the four I actually have, so I isolated the disk in question and changed the cable but sadly to no avail. Installing with three disks with the one what would be invisible to the installer not connected got me a BSOD again, but in this case Windows 7 recovered from it and the install continued into a working and stable situation. Reconnecting the "invisible" disk now gave a visible and usable disk, so the disk itself wasn't broken, meaning I still had no idea why the install didn't see the disk.

Now I had two more experiments to do: I moved the Windows install to a USB stick, disabled the j-micron controller that activated and controlled my DVDR, and retried the install with four disks, once again right into a BSOD, so I decided that the j-micron driver being loaded (or not) wasn't the problem. I moved on to my last test, and started moving the four disks around my six SATA ports. They don't seem to be numbered logically, as the numbers 5 and 6 on the mobo seem to be called something else in the BIOS and something else again in the RAID controller but anyway, the SATA ports are grouped into two flat on the mobo, and four together at 90deg to it. I configured a striped mirror in the RAID, and just started moving the cables about, while trying the install after each change. After three tries I had an install that went right through with no BSODs and left me with a working Windows 7 on all four disks in RAID.

I have no idea what is/was wrong with with the four disk install on the six ports. I read something on the internet about the j-micron controller messing with two of the six ports, but if that is the case, why does the Intel RAID chip see all four disks at all times? The BIOS also sees all four disks. Can it be that there are dodgy SATA ports? On two different mobos? Currently the disks are connected to the two SATA ports flat on the mobo, and the two top ports in the block of four.

 

[Scouse]

Send it back. New mobo. Current one doesn't work as advertised