Recent content by karmadharma

" if you play an unsupported game you take a performance hit" I don't quite get that, if I play an unsupported game and create a profile so that it runs in 'single-chip' mode (non-SLI) why would it take a performance hit? Agreed on the 'financial' hit in this case obviously. Also this...

ChineseDemocracyGNR, do you have an URL for those comments? It might be late but I can't seem to find any sort of link to the comments section for the article :( Hannibal, can't remember my scores off the top of my head, but I also only have a 3500+ and with 4x512MB sticks (which run at...

well, if two generations from now one card will be a lot faster than my two cards (quite likely) I might just go for a non-SLI configuration instead: just because one chooses SLI now it doesn't mean we're stuck with it forever, if in two years I bought a GeForce 8800, say, I could just keep one...

btw, I don't think I have more money than sense ;) I 'upgrade' (as in, buy a new PC) only once every 3-4 years and I figured that investing the extra money was a way to future-proof my rig a little bit more (since for all I know it would be a lot harder to find a second identical 6800GT in the...

this quote was in the video card buying guide regarding how it would be unwise to go SLI given these 'issues'. Given that I am running an a8n-sli deluxe with 2x6800gt with no problems whatsoever (save the SI raid wanting to (slowly) rebuild every time XP crashes, which happened only once in over...

I did this twice, once it was fine (and ran fast right away) and the other it was again 'reduced', in order to fix it I switched one of the HDs to a different SI port and chose 'rebuild array' in the BIOS, after that it ran fine again (wonder why!). I have to say I got the 'reduced' only twice...

I had no idea the array was actually rebuilding itself when I had all the 'reduced' issues (didn't see Robbidoo's reply at the time), in order to get things back to normal what I did was go in the BIOS, remove the array and recreate a RAID1 array with 'immediate' data copying (not sure if it's...

I have 2x200GB HDs in RAID1 on the SI chip, and I'm wondering if anybody can help me understand a problem I've been having, as the documentation provided is fairly useless. Basically the fact is that, when XP shuts down improperly (last time it happened it was due to the IRQ_LESS_NOT_EQUAL in...

Just wanted to report on this since after quite a while things are now working great and maybe somebody will benefit from my experience. - First of all, I was never able to get the nforce4 sata drivers to install (package problems as described above), drive was always stuck in PIO...

just one more thing: if I have time in the future I might try to reinstall everything and put it again in raid1 on the nvraid, although I have heard about the nvraid not being as bug-free as the SI controller.

ok, let me rephrase the situation (I hope that if anybody else is having this issue they might benefit, that's why I'm not switching to PMs). = originally my PC had 2 drives in RAID1 on the SI ports = everything was fine for 3 days, then all of a sudden everything became really slow: not...

well, I rebooted on the 'other' SATA HD (since it was RAID1 they were the same) which was very clean and before I did all the messing with the drivers and so on and you know what, 6.39 installs *but* it still gives the 'not supported by this processor type' error message for some reason (and the...

nvraid is/was disabled in the bios, that's why I wondered why the heck I get that message. SI raid is disabled as well. ide prefetch is enabled hds are connected to the nv sata ports, NOT the SI sata ones (they used to be in RAID1 on the SI but after it went down to 3MB/sec I figured what...

enabling/disabling things in the BIOS has weird effects: my HD is on SATA1 and my CDROM is a master on IDE1 if I disable only IDE0 I get a 'NVidia RAID trying to find an array' screen just after the POST screen, then winnt boots but freezes (black screen) just before going in the graphical...

I did a lot of add/removes, experimented with different nv controllers but still no dice. I have 3 controllers showing (dual channel IDE controllers, one for IDE1/2, one for SATA1/2 and one for SATA3/4 I think). My HD is on the second 'primary IDE controller' (which is SATA1), my DVD is on the...