I did the Windows Memory Tool scan 2 times on Extended mode. No problems found... It's getting irritating now, although the system does not always hang, I am now just afraid to use it.
If you want a sanity check, I suggest you try running Linux on there just to make sure that it doesn't hang too. If it does, then you can at least eliminate the Windows drivers from the equation. Also most Linux live CD's have an option on the boot menu for running Memtest86+.
At the moment, I am away from my home so we will have to postpone this case for about a week or two. I will speak again when I get back home. Happy Easter to everyone.
have installed the 20008 r2 all seems fine just need drivers :S any one know were i can get them esp the ethernet drivers kudos to the op that found the bios. found them used 2003 64 bit drivers
seem to have hit problem r2 installs fine but when i reboot after its instlled it ges stuck in the recovary mode :s any ideas what it could be have intalled aver 3 times and each time it happens.
Warmo: what kind of problem have you got (do you get a bluescreen, auto-reboot and then recovery mode)? I was unable to install the new driver because it was not detected, what I did is modification of the inf file what came out to be a working solution. I can do it for you if you want. If you install your system to IDE then I'm not sure what to do. I have a problem with my system hanging sometimes when idle, so I will try connecting my HDD using a SATAtoIDE converter to see whether IDE solves my problem (maybe its something with the SATA controller and the system just hangs) You can also use the new BIOS modified by thqoang which has the new SI firmware, this is the one I am using... Tqhoang: I will do a RAID5 array (3x 1TB) + some performance tests, at the moment my hdds (no raid, sata) copy with speed of about 50 MB/s. Is it a good speed?
When you say random shutdowns you mean your screen goes blank but the fans and everything work like the computer was on? If so, this is what happens to me. When I press the power button my hdd indicator led blinks once but no reaction (should shut down), mouse and keyboard do nothing and usb does not work.
That seems pretty slow considering that your SATA hard drives (even SATA300 are bottlenecked with a SATA150 speed). I'd expect that individual non-RAID hard drive performance would probably range between 100-130 MB/s.
Guys - Have you checked to make sure that you have chosen High Performance mode (or customized and disabled Standby) under the Control Panel -> Power Options (assuming Win2008-R2 is similar to Win7)? I can hibernate on my HDAMB board but I never go to Standby.
Looks like a nice card: PCI Controller Card SATA II RAID CARD +4 Internal Ports You have PCI slot then it will work sebus
It looks like a nice card, but I hardly trust products from Hong Kong like this one. It says it does RAID 5 but what does the checksum calculations, I assume its my CPU isn't it?
I expected that, but does it slow the pc's working speed so much when it copies a file. Does it make the CPU work at 100% or something? So if my system copies data at 50mb at the moment, how much will be if I do raid 5? And would this SATA300 card increase copy speeds because 50MB (SATA150) is quite slow? I think its more important to concentrate on the system hanging than the raid controller...