Thanks for the post Timothy. I have just read some posts where people
could not even boot after 'upgrading' to F8! Perhaps we should spam
Gigabyte for being such jerks.
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Gigabyte 8KNXP, P4 2.8C, Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT Cas 2-5-3-3
SiSoft Sandra 2003 Unbuffered ALU 2973MB/s, Int Buff 4909MB/s,
Memtest86 2442 MB/s, Zalman CNPS 7000AlCu, WD Raptor, Radeon 8500LL,
WinXP Pro
Timothy Drouillard wrote:
I have a GA-8KNXP I've been running with F6 for some time with everything
working just fine.
Then Gigabyte comes out with a new BIOS, F7, then shortly after, F8.
Now I've been in the business more years than I care to admit, and have
learned many many times, 'if it works, don't f_ck with it!'
But nooooo, something posessed me to go ahead and try F7 and F8.
Some people never learn.
In my system I have 2 WD SATA Raptors in a RAID 0 array on the SII
controller, and two Seagate 160gig SATA drives on the ICH5R controller.
under both F7 and F8, I no longer have an option to boot to the SII Raid
controller.
Both RAID controllers are set 'enabled' in the BIOS and set to RAID, the
POST sees the proper drives on the proper controllers and sees them as RAID
0 setups just fine.
In the Boot order in the BIOS, the only HD options shown are for the Intel
RAID controller and an add-in card.
no sign of the SII RAID controller at all.
tried all kinds of combinations to no avail.
Went back to F6 and all is well again.
"Stephen Williams" wrote in message
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"Dominic Phoon" wrote in message
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Anyone? I am still using F5, wondering if I should update.
Thanks
F8 seemed great at first. I installed it after being on F6 for ages.
My setup is 2 SATA drives (no RAID) on the ICH5-R, a DVD-Combo and a
DVD-RW
on the Secondary IDE channel. The extra SATA and IDE controllers are
disabled.
It seems they had finally re-arranged the BIOS so you could boot from an
ICH5R based SATA drive and still retail all standard IDE channels (like
all
other 865/875 boards already could). So I changed the sata channels from
being Primary Master and Slave to Channel 2 and Channel 3 Masters, reset,
went back in to the BIOS and there they were under Hard Drive Boot
Order...
and the machine booted fine.
Then for some reason after i powered it off completely and turned it back
on, the Intel RAID controller decided to enable itself, under Hard Drive
Boot Order i now had 4 drives instead of 2
It went from
Ch2 Master Seagate 80GB
Ch3 Master Seagate 120GB
Add in cards
to
Ch2 Master Seagate 80GB
SCSI 0 Seagate 120GB
Add in cards
Ch3 Master Seagate 120GB
SCSI 1 Seagate 80GB
And the computer either would hang after checking the CD-ROMs for a boot
disc, or it would blue screen before getting to the desktop. The type of
failure depended on which was set to the first boot drive.
Put the SATA drives back to Primary Master and Slave, but the Intel RAID
controller kept coming up and now was complaining about incompatible
hardware. Windows would blue screen before the desktop.
Had to revert back to F6 which was in the backup BIOS, even then no USB
devices worked in windows so i had to get a PS/2 keyboard out, remove all
USB related things from the device manager, restart and let XP find them
again, just to get my USB mouse and keyboard working.
F8 now runs all BIOSes before you can get in to the main BIOS in order to
pick up every possible boot drive. It's a good idea, but seems to me that
it's full of bugs. They should just make it like other mobos, where you
can
choose from any device on the ICH5R or standard IDE channels, or SCSI and
set the SCSI boot order to Silicon Image, ITE or add on card.
Feels like i just wrote a novel!
Steve
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