Recent content by xena10003

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    nvidia RAID 1 rebuilding

    I don't know about the Nvidia chipsets. On Intel ICH9R, the status of the RAID becomes marked as "degraded." You have to pop in the replacement drive and add it as a member of the RAID, and it should start rebuilding once the O/S is loaded up. The mirror process for a pair of 250gb mirrored...
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    Low RAID 5 Write Performance on P5Q Deluxe

    Make sure all your drives are set for SATA-II (300) operation. This should be detectable by the Intel RAID software. Also be careful of bad drives; you may want to run a diagnostic on each of your tera's separately. We roll out Dell Optiplex 755 units at work all the time with 250x2 mirror RAID...
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    MSI MSI Neo2-FR power supply

    The manual says you can run it with 20+4. The 4-pin 12v plug is for extra power going to the CPU and is important. I have mine running on an Antec 80+ certified power supply. It pulls 80 watts at idle and 115 watts at full power, running 3d game demo. All measured with a Kill-a-watt meter.
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    MSI P35 NEO2 FR Processor Question

    According to MSI's website, that CPU should work.
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    mSI P35 Neo2FR and SI3112 drivers loaded

    That driver is for your ide hard drive to sata converter module. It should work okay without the driver as the Silicon Image module will just work in "compatibility" mode. I would recommend putting that driver back in to prevent any future disk i/o issues. It may also speed up your access times.