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Old April 22nd 04, 04:04 AM
Deadman Struttin
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"Charlie" wrote in message
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I have a KT7A-Raid board, with a 1 GHz Athlon processor and 768 MB
PC-133 RAM, running Win 98SE. I have run this board configured with
Raid-0, but I'm now just using it without the Raid function.... but I
do have 4 WD drives on it. The system has just recently started having
a problem with locking up. It usually occurs when I'm doing something
important, like editing a large Photoshop file, or have several apps
open at the same time. On lockup, which also seems to occur with a
mouse click (using a MS Intellimouse USB), a hard reset is required,
as there is no response to either the keyboard or the mouse.


A few questions for you. 1)What size & brand power supply. 2)What mobo
revision number. 3)Did you have four drives setup in it before this
configuration. 4)Do you have a Soundblaster audio card in it?
My personal experiance with this board has been that it's a power hungry
peice of work, with somewhat questionable circuitry actually suppling the
power where needed (especially the AGP port). I have the rev 1.0 though. I
ended up with a Antec 550w to power it adequetly, but only have 1 WD HD and
a CD-RW. Some peolpe had issues with HD's attached to the secondary IDE
channel in conjunction with using a Soundblaster card. Paul Howland's FAQ
over at Sudhian covers this :
http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=2&fcid=15#217 . There were also
reports of problems transfering large data files between IDE channels, some
linked to SB audio, some not. There was a PCI latency patch put out by
George Breese which I've used every since I found it, and havn't encountered
any problems with large file transfers. It's at :
http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#PCI . Last thing I can think of
that may help is adjusting the PCI latency values for any other peripherals
with PowerStrip. Link to an article discussing that is here :
http://www.geocities.com/phileosopho...cilatency.html .