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So far I haven't had a problem with it not being recognized. Keeping my fingers crossed.

The drive is huge and the sucker flies. I got it for video production and will probably get another one this summer. I'm not going to RAID them because I will use one for video capture and the other for post production.

I just built this system last week. My old system had an AMD Athlon 2600+ and would take 4 hours to render 1 hour of video for DVD production using Pinnacle Studio 9. I'm curious to see what the new system will do.
 
HELP! After installing the Nvidia Chipset drivers (ver 6.31) my Maxtor Sata Drive shows up as a removable disk. I have the green arrow icon in my taskbar that allows me to "remove hardware" after installing the nvidia chipset. I also now have two floppy drives: A & B showing up. Any idea why this happens and more importantly can I fix it!

Thanks,

Syd
 
I have the 250g 16 meg cache Maxtor and cannot enable Command Queing, it causes all sorts of errors with the drive. As for the removable drive issue after installing the 6.31's, that's normal.
 
govern 1, doesn't that seem strange that it recognizes my hard drive as removable hardware? My buddy has an nforce3 Ultra motherboard with this hard drive and it doesn't show up that way for him (his is an MSI board).

Would flashing one of the beta bios solve this problem? I'm using version 1002 now.
 
HELP! After installing the Nvidia Chipset drivers (ver 6.31) my Maxtor Sata Drive shows up as a removable disk. I have the green arrow icon in my taskbar that allows me to "remove hardware" after installing the nvidia chipset. I also now have two floppy drives: A & B showing up. Any idea why this happens and more importantly can I fix it!
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Isn't that normal? I get the same thing. Technically, SATA drives are hot-swappable... you just probably wouldn't do that with your C: drive. 🙂 I get the same deal with seeing two floppy drives listed - the mobo boot disk saw my floppy drive as B:/. No friggin' clue.
 
Oh, and just my own opinions after I got this rig up and running... smokin'. I've always been an Abit guy, but this board's embarrasingly feature-rich, and the manual's great. Games are all glass at high quality, even though at this point I'm still only running a single 6600GT.
 
Im am getting something similar. My 160 GB IDE drive doesnt function right when I add it. My system recognizes it, but accessing anything off of it crashes the system. Certain programs that load into the sys tray, error upon execution and all the drive files are not accessible. Im pulling my hair out...

Anyone have any ideas? I loaded in the drivers that came on the CD. Nvidias website has newer unified drivers, but they dont say anything about supporting the nforce 4 chipset.

 
I don't have my Lian Li case yet, but since my old system's video card or AGP slot died (still not sure), I just gutted my old case and used that temporarily (5 days with no computer, and all this stuff sitting here, would be pure torture). I got everything up and running with almost no hitch (wouldn't boot off my SATA drive until I did a low-level format before installing) and have had no major issues so far. Smoothest build yet!

1003.5 BIOS
Winchester 3200+
Zalman 7700Alcu
2x 512MB PQI PC4000
1x Raptor 75GB
1x XFX 6800GT
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
Antec NeoPower 480
I also attached my old system disk (40GB Diamond Max 8 I believe) to the IDE primary.

A couple oddities though. Trying to get my HT and memory running at 250MHz, with a 10x multiplier. I ran into the thing where setting the ram clock to DDR500 would set the "JumperFree" section to auto and mess up the CPU overclock. But oddly enough, when I set my ram to DDR400 and THEN did the JumperFree section (250 CPU, 10x multi, auto the rest) my memory is now running at 250MHz also! Is this normal? It registers as 250 in Everest, and I benchmarked it at 6.8GB/s read, 1.8GB/s write which seems to be a good dual PC4000 speed.

The other thing, although Everest reads my 6800GT as the correct clock, 3dMark05 for some reason lists the VGA core at only 50MHz!! WHy would it be doing this? Does it not support PCI-E or something?

I didn't check if this is the case before overclocking, but it seems that my 3dmark score actually dropped in the GPU tests after the OC (though my CPU scores are up). My first overall score was around 4500, now its more like 3800, which doesn't seem so hot.

CPU is idling at 37C at 2.5GHz, and this is in my crappy old case. I'm liking the 7700.
 
DaegoJim, go into device manager for the 160 hd and make sure the command queing tab is not selected. If it is, unselect it and restart. I had the exact same symptoms you descibed until I did that.

Shawn
 
Thank you for the replies!

So everyone with a SATA drive has this "safely remove hardware" icon on their toolbar? I haven't found any way to get rid of this icon for my hard drive. Has anyone else tried?
 
Ive got command queing enabled on all 3 of my diamondmax 10 250gb drives and there aren't any problems. Gives me a slight performance boost in pcmark04.
 
Shawn, thanks....but under device manager I dont have a tab that allow me to select the cueing.


Another thing, does anyone find that 8k rpm fan annoying...so much for the cool and quiet technology. This system is now louder than my last.
 
Originally posted by: syd968
Thank you for the replies!

So everyone with a SATA drive has this "safely remove hardware" icon on their toolbar? I haven't found any way to get rid of this icon for my hard drive. Has anyone else tried?
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Yes Syd, I have that too, for the 2 sata drives I have hooked up on nvidia ports.
 
I believe that SATAII supports hot swapping and that's probably why you see the icon. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
I installed AI booster - no problem (other than it always pops open when you turn your computer on!)

I then installed Cool n Quiet - when I start the computer an error message pops us saying to Disable Cool n Quiet first in the bios. So I've disabled it, restarted, then re-enabled Cool n Quiet in the bios and I get the same error message. Also, AI booster will not work when I re-enable Cool n Quiet.

Anyone else have this problem, or do the two not work together?

Thanks again!
 
I encountered errors when command queuing was enabled as well. As soon as I enabled it and restarted, programs would hang, IE would crash as soon as I ran it, and the system just generally became unstable. As soon as I disabled it, all was well. I figured it was just immature drivers.

I'm using a Seagate 7200.7 w/NCQ.
 
Interesting. I wonder if there is a driver needed for this function to work properly?

I just did some research. The NCQ support is part of the hard drive controller driver. Has anyone tried using their NCQ drive on the SI controller?
 
Well, unfortunately I'm not alone with the NCQ problem, thought I was going crazy. Hopefully we can figure out why it is doing this.

Shawn
 
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