• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

SATA + NF4 = headache

T

Tazman2

Supreme [H]ardness
2FA
Joined
Nov 17, 2000
Messages
5,030
So i bought a seagate barracuda 400 gig SATA drive w/NCQ in the hope of getting rid of all three of my IDE drives because of dumb issues i can't stand anymore. Anyways. Went to install a new Windows XP copy from a cd i had that has SP1 on it and i tried it every which way. Without the disk, with, on ports 3, 1, etc. Nada. Updated the disk files from DFI's website nada. Created a RAID on the drive nada. Always said no drives exist in the PC or it just sits on "Setup is starting windows" and does jack shit. Ideas? :mad:
 
Tried putting a floppy in the drive and pressing F6 to specify a SCSI controller? See if the NVRAID on your DFI board (if it's using the NV RAID controller) will work in legacy or combination mode which doesn't require the driver floppy.

My ASUS A8N has both the NVRAID and a Silicon image SATA RAID controller. I had to provide drivers for only the Silicon image controller. the nForce SATA worked fine on its own since it's not in RAID mode. Luckily for me, the XP Disc I had pulled the Silicon Image drivers from my USB Floppy drive.
 
Yes i used the F6 option to load the ask after it not seeing it without the disk. I tried with the sata raid off initially and then went to it for haha's and nothing. I'm wondering if i for sure need SP2 maybe for the built in drivers to work? My copy only has SP1 on it. Ugh stupid pos! :mad:

EDIT: Yeah i have both too but i heard the NF4 ones are alot better and support NCQ unlike the SiL one!
 
maybe im wrong but for a SATA drive that size dont windows need sp2?

again correct me if im wrong

edit: for any SATA drive over 100 plus gig i believe
 
Well i just slipstreamed sp2 onto a cd so i will give it a whirl again tomorrow! Thanks!
 
Tazman2 said:
Yes i used the F6 option to load the ask after it not seeing it without the disk. I tried with the sata raid off initially and then went to it for haha's and nothing. I'm wondering if i for sure need SP2 maybe for the built in drivers to work? My copy only has SP1 on it. Ugh stupid pos! :mad:

EDIT: Yeah i have both too but i heard the NF4 ones are alot better and support NCQ unlike the SiL one!
Click to expand...
The only reason I'm using the Silicon Image controller at all is because it supports RAID 5 and the NVRAID does not. I just setup my RAID 5 array tonight. Nearly 500GB of fault tolerant storage for pr0......I mean files *drools*
 
lol. Yeah the SIL one doesn't do NCQ, etc. unfortuntly and my new drive supports it so i rather use that if possible. After i get out of here (work) i will give the slipstreamed SP2 Windows XP cd a whirl! :D
 
Tazman2 said:
lol. Yeah the SIL one doesn't do NCQ, etc. unfortuntly and my new drive supports it so i rather use that if possible. After i get out of here (work) i will give the slipstreamed SP2 Windows XP cd a whirl! :D
Click to expand...

NCQ has CPU overhead. Unless you have you machine doing alot of multiple disk I/O requests at the same time there is no reason to have it enabled. If you are filesharing/serving while doing other things it would be useful.

If you want pure performance in games turn it off.
 
Well i tried the SP2 disk and no go. Tried some other ideas nada. Installed using the SIL controller and it does work BUT some good wtf's! The Windows XP start screen takes forever. About 10x longer then my damn IDE! And the drive seems to click right before doing something intensive. Also i figured i'd install the nf4 SATA drivers and try my 2nd SATA drive on my now working Windows XP install and guess what. It still doesn't f'in work! CHRIST! Stupid POS! :mad:
 
J-Mag said:
NCQ has CPU overhead. Unless you have you machine doing alot of multiple disk I/O requests at the same time there is no reason to have it enabled. If you are filesharing/serving while doing other things it would be useful.

If you want pure performance in games turn it off.
Click to expand...
do you have linkage to prove that claim? I thought NCQ is done "in the drive", i.e. once the requests have made it across the SATA bus and are about to be serviced by the drive's controller. I don't see how that would stress the CPU.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top