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My Problems..... From the beginning !! Some1 please help

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mussafry

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ok 2 weeks ago, all my PC Stuff arrived .... and my WC Setup ... so i setup everything and i got these problems....

*SPECS*

Specs:
DFI SLi-DR
Athlon64 4800+ X2
Dual 7800 GTX
2x 1 gb OCZ 2-3-2-5 Ram
2x Western Digital 250GB 16 mb cache sataII Hdd
2x Nec DVD Burner
PC&C 510 Turbo Cool SLi PSU
Lian Li 7077BW Case

Watercooling:
Swiftech STROM
2x Maze4 GPU Block
Swiftech MC655
Dual heater Core + Shroud
Tygon 1/2"
T-Line

I connected up everything, turned it on, and it booted, on the first try :p yay. The BIOS detected both my SATA Drives and only 1 of my CD Drivers, i had to change the jumper at the back to make 1 master/slave. Then it detected both. So i continue on and i installed windows, i went into windows installed the shipset drivers and restarted. Went into BIO and made it boot onto the HDD which is when i got the message

"Verifying DMI Pool Data" and it would just stay there ... forever. i asked about that here, and every1 said i needed to install the sata drivers, so i booted up "Dariks Nuke and boot" then i put the windows CD in and pressed F6, and then press "s" ... When it says, put the CD in and press ENTER, once i press ENTER it takes me back to the Press ENTER screen, Everytime.

Then i dont know what i did ! and i installed windows again, and when i booted off the hard drive it worked. It went past the DMI Pool data, and now in my windows, i only have one HDD ... and it shows 2 in the BIOS. (Help??)

my Setup hasnt been working for nearly a week and its pissing me off cuz i wanna use my PC !! I installed 3DMARK05 just to test and my score came really low, for Dual GTX's, i got 8450. I think, maybe, its just 1 card and i didnt turn SLi on? (Help??)

So anyways so sum it all up, yes i know its long and im sorry :p:

Basically:

Why does windows detect only 1 Harddrive?
How can i install these *** Sata Drivers?
and why is my 3dmark05 score so low? (I think i need to enable SLi Somewhere?? All i did was connect the 2 VGAs, put the SLI Bridge, and install the drivers that came on the CD)
 
Windows only detects one HD because it can't see the other. Install both SATA drivers since that board has 2 SATA controllers (4 ports from nForce, 4 from Silicon Image). Go to Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager and tell us what yellow question marks you see. Make sure you install the latest video drivers as well. After you do and restart, go to Control Panel, Display, Settings, Advanced button, GeForce 7800GTX and then look around for a SLI section and enable it.
 
I cant install the SATA Drivers, i think i have a corrupted disk, the SATAs are installed on the NH4 COntrollers.

I have yellow Question makrs under:
Other PCI Bridge Device
PCI Memory controller
RAID Controller
SM BUS COntroller
Video Controller (VGA Compatible)
Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

under "Disk Drives" windows can see both Hard Drives. But when i go into my computer, theres only 1 HDD.

*edit* I installed the new drivers, and i enabled SLi, im running 3dmark05 right now, my CPU temps are 31 and my VGA are 38 both idle (Is that good) ?

now all i need to do is find/detect the second HDD ...

and 1 more thing ... everything on my PC seems so "slow" compared to my old PC (2.8 Intel P4 Northwood)
 
Alright, you're going to have to reinstall Windows XP. Do it in this order:

1) Plug in the HD that you want to install WinXP on and disconnect the other.
2) Boot up WinXP CD and install Windows XP as you normally would.
3) Update to SP2 if it wasn't already slipstreamed.
4) Install chipset drivers (download from here, do not install IDE or audio drivers)
5) Reboot
6) Install video drivers (download from here)
7) Reboot
8) Install the rest of the drivers from the included motherboard CD, including the Silicon Image SATA driver.
9) Shutdown
10) Connect the secondary HD
11) Bootup and install all available Windows updates
12) Reboot and you should be ready to rock
 
z-lite said:
Alright, you're going to have to reinstall Windows XP. Do it in this order:

1) Plug in the HD that you want to install WinXP on and disconnect the other.
2) Boot up WinXP CD and install Windows XP as you normally would.
3) Update to SP2 if it wasn't already slipstreamed.
4) Install chipset drivers (download from here, do not install IDE or audio drivers)
5) Reboot
6) Install video drivers (download from here)
7) Reboot
8) Install the rest of the drivers from the included motherboard CD, including the Silicon Image SATA driver.
9) Shutdown
10) Connect the secondary HD
11) Bootup and install all available Windows updates
12) Reboot and you should be ready to rock
Click to expand...

Ok, i did exactly what you said, then at Step10, once i connect the HDD i get a "Disk Read error" at start up. When i remove it i can go into windows ....

when i went into windows, i turned SLI on, and i got the same problem as before, the screen would turn an olive green then the PC woul restart.
 
Reseat your video cards and make sure the SLI card is set to SLI (should be between the PCIe slots and reseat the SLI bridge (connects the 2 video cards together).

Edit: Change the boot order of your HD so that your Windows drive boots first. That should help with the 2nd HD.
 
Don't know if this helps but when you use F6 to load the sata drivers they have to be on a floppy. Windows won't see them if they are on a CD it only scans the floppy drive.
 
With NF4, you don't need the SATA driver but for Silicon Image, you do.
 
The reason he couldn't see the second drive in Windows before was because it probably wasn't partitioned yet. In that case, it will show up in device manager but will not show up in My Computer or anything. You would need to go to Administrative Tools, Computer Management and then Disk Management. After that you should see both the hard drives and both the DVD drives. You will need to right click on the hard disk that is not assigned a drive letter. It should give you an option to partition the drive and format. You will need to do that before the drive is usable.

That should fix the problem with the drive not showing up in Windows when you get back in there.

I'm afraid I can't help with the SLI stuff. I've never touched an SLI setup and probably never will.

 
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