I'm having some difficulty with my latest upgrade. I grabbed myself an MSI K8N Neo Platinum and an Athlon 64 DTR (wanted to be sure to get the CG revision core and no heat spreder for better cooling ). It all went together pretty well after a modification to the backplate to allow my Koolance waterblock to sit properly on the lower core of the DTR.
Anyway, I made a Ghost 2003 image of my old 2x40GB Maxtor RAID 0 array (used the Highpoint 374 on my old Abit IT7), and hooked those Maxtor drives up to the K8N using SATA to PATA converters (Highpoint Rocketheads). No problems yet, though it's starting to look an extra bit messy in my case with all that.
Anyway, the BIOS detects the drives fine and I set them for RAID usage. I then configure a RAID 0 array in the RAID BIOS and that works fine. Now comes the problems.
Problem 1) Ghost doesn't see a single 80GB array. It sees a single 40. If I use FDISK and make a partition (though it misreports the free space), Ghost will see an 80GB partition on a 40GB drive and let me start the restoring process, but eventually fails.
Problem 2) Booting from my Win2K with SP4 integrated CD, pressing F6 and installing both nForce drivers from the floppy causes the install to bluescreen after the "Starting Windows 2000" message. This is before you can even select to setup or repair Windows. It just churns the drives a few minutes (which it doesn't normally do during this early phase) and then BSOD with DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL. Same thing with WinXP with SP1 CD, though I don't thnk it actually gives me any real error message.
I'm going to be tinkering at it for a while yet. Any ideas?
-NStriker
Anyway, I made a Ghost 2003 image of my old 2x40GB Maxtor RAID 0 array (used the Highpoint 374 on my old Abit IT7), and hooked those Maxtor drives up to the K8N using SATA to PATA converters (Highpoint Rocketheads). No problems yet, though it's starting to look an extra bit messy in my case with all that.
Anyway, the BIOS detects the drives fine and I set them for RAID usage. I then configure a RAID 0 array in the RAID BIOS and that works fine. Now comes the problems.
Problem 1) Ghost doesn't see a single 80GB array. It sees a single 40. If I use FDISK and make a partition (though it misreports the free space), Ghost will see an 80GB partition on a 40GB drive and let me start the restoring process, but eventually fails.
Problem 2) Booting from my Win2K with SP4 integrated CD, pressing F6 and installing both nForce drivers from the floppy causes the install to bluescreen after the "Starting Windows 2000" message. This is before you can even select to setup or repair Windows. It just churns the drives a few minutes (which it doesn't normally do during this early phase) and then BSOD with DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL. Same thing with WinXP with SP1 CD, though I don't thnk it actually gives me any real error message.
I'm going to be tinkering at it for a while yet. Any ideas?
-NStriker
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