Ke, het hele verhaal is in het engels, maar dat is omdat ik het niet alleen hier post maar ook op andere plaatsen en het is nogal een lang verhaal(als iemand het niet begrijpt dan belt tie maar en vertel ik het nog wel een keer)
People,
I'm haveing some troubles with my brand new VP6 board and the onboard RAID controller from HIGHPOINT.
The system:
Board: ABIT VP-6
YT bios (no update for HPT bios)
Proc:2x Pentium3 1Ghz
Mem:2x 512Mb at Bank 3 and 4 (1 and 2 are to close to the HD's and cables)
Graphics:MATROX G550
Harddrive:2x Maxtor Fireball 541DX Model# 2B020H1 20GB 5400RPM connected to onboard HPT370 RAID as a stripe
Network:Realtek NIC in PCI port 3
drivers for RAID: Driver set V2.0.1019 for NT4,W2K and XP
I tried to install the OS (tried: XP, W2K Prof and Server and NT4) on the stripe but wasn't able to succeed once!
For XP it went like this:
Every time I used F6 to install the HPT driver, the screen went blank while copying files for about a minute or 5 and then resumed copying. When I get the change to select the partion I want to install to, it's takes ages to go trough the fdisk routines of selecting/deleting a partition. (While the HD light does nothing!) When I'm through that and can choose how I want to format the drives (NTFS/FAT/Quick/Normal) I once selected Quick NTFS (After creating a 20GB partition) The progress bar jumped to 20% and every 2 secs the HD light blinks. I went out to dinner only to find it 1.5 hours later still at 20% So I tried formatting NTFS normaly. Then it sticks to 1% and doesn't move.
So I tried W2K server:
Every time I loaded the HPT driver with F6, the system freezes after loading all device drivers with the message: Starting windows or windows is now starting. End of story
If I don't load the HPT driver, the system goes by happely the "Starting windows" message, but fails quickly after that saying that there aren't any HD's attached to the system.
So I tried NT4:
Got the message: No HD's attached to install Windows on, with and without the F6 option and loading the HPT driver.
So I tried not to use the RAID and put in another HD connected to controller 1.
Installing XP:
I tried installing the HPT with F6. It went through the whole installation but realy slow. Booting took about 7 to 10 MINUTES! After XP was installed, opening the MMC and the Disk administrator took a realy long time. But it did show me the HPT with a 20 GB drive attached (something like Maxtor 20GB on HPT3XX (MBR)) Trying to do anything with it was impossible.
The eventlog in XP was full with these messages:
Error event ID 9: The device, \Device\Scsi\Hpt3xx1, did not respond within the timeout period.
Error event ID 53: A pending interrupt was detected on device \Device\Scsi\Hpt3xx1 during a timeout operation. A large number of these warnings may indicate that the system is not correctly receiving or processing interrupts from the device.
This gave me something to work with. I thought about an IRQ sharing problem with the HPT. So I tried nearly every config there was. (Disabled IRQ for VGA and USB, Set ESCD to auto and manual, etc. Also removed NIC from system) No use, still same slow boot.
So what the heck, I tried installing W2K server again the same way, on a drive loose from the raid. With W2K there was no way I could get through the "Starting windows" message with the HPT driver loaded (I also tried F5/F7 with different PC types: standard/MPS/ACPI etc.)
By this time I realy got fed up with the HPT, so I disabled the RAID controller in the bios and was able to install W2K without any troubles. I rebooted and booting was quick as I was used to on other systems. So I rebooted, enabled the RAID with the 2 drives attached. After W2K booted, it found the mass storage controller, I installed the HPT driver from floppy and rebooted. Back to the slow boot, booting took about 10 to 15 minutes and the eventlog was full with the same messages I saw in XP.
Disableing the RAID controller would bring everything back to speed.
XP and W2K did report that the HPT controller was working fine in the devices list.
I also enabled the raid controller and pulled of the HD's. Quick boot after that, so I attached 1 HD. Again a quick boot. Connecting both, and back to the errors in the eventlog and the slow boot time.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I SHOULD DO. The system is driving me nuts, both the HD's and the mainboard aren't from the same supplier so just returning it, aint so easy. What's more likely to generate the problem, the HPT controller or the Maxtors? I saw a message on the Maxtor site about some drives having troubles with the HPT366 controller. They looked a lot like mine.
I saw a lot of messages from ppl that seem to have running W2K running on there board, so my gues something in broken.
Anyone got any idea???
All help, (and sympathies are appreciated :-)
Richard Hoogenboom
ps. email replys are also fine with me
People,
I'm haveing some troubles with my brand new VP6 board and the onboard RAID controller from HIGHPOINT.
The system:
Board: ABIT VP-6
YT bios (no update for HPT bios)
Proc:2x Pentium3 1Ghz
Mem:2x 512Mb at Bank 3 and 4 (1 and 2 are to close to the HD's and cables)
Graphics:MATROX G550
Harddrive:2x Maxtor Fireball 541DX Model# 2B020H1 20GB 5400RPM connected to onboard HPT370 RAID as a stripe
Network:Realtek NIC in PCI port 3
drivers for RAID: Driver set V2.0.1019 for NT4,W2K and XP
I tried to install the OS (tried: XP, W2K Prof and Server and NT4) on the stripe but wasn't able to succeed once!
For XP it went like this:
Every time I used F6 to install the HPT driver, the screen went blank while copying files for about a minute or 5 and then resumed copying. When I get the change to select the partion I want to install to, it's takes ages to go trough the fdisk routines of selecting/deleting a partition. (While the HD light does nothing!) When I'm through that and can choose how I want to format the drives (NTFS/FAT/Quick/Normal) I once selected Quick NTFS (After creating a 20GB partition) The progress bar jumped to 20% and every 2 secs the HD light blinks. I went out to dinner only to find it 1.5 hours later still at 20% So I tried formatting NTFS normaly. Then it sticks to 1% and doesn't move.
So I tried W2K server:
Every time I loaded the HPT driver with F6, the system freezes after loading all device drivers with the message: Starting windows or windows is now starting. End of story
If I don't load the HPT driver, the system goes by happely the "Starting windows" message, but fails quickly after that saying that there aren't any HD's attached to the system.
So I tried NT4:
Got the message: No HD's attached to install Windows on, with and without the F6 option and loading the HPT driver.
So I tried not to use the RAID and put in another HD connected to controller 1.
Installing XP:
I tried installing the HPT with F6. It went through the whole installation but realy slow. Booting took about 7 to 10 MINUTES! After XP was installed, opening the MMC and the Disk administrator took a realy long time. But it did show me the HPT with a 20 GB drive attached (something like Maxtor 20GB on HPT3XX (MBR)) Trying to do anything with it was impossible.
The eventlog in XP was full with these messages:
Error event ID 9: The device, \Device\Scsi\Hpt3xx1, did not respond within the timeout period.
Error event ID 53: A pending interrupt was detected on device \Device\Scsi\Hpt3xx1 during a timeout operation. A large number of these warnings may indicate that the system is not correctly receiving or processing interrupts from the device.
This gave me something to work with. I thought about an IRQ sharing problem with the HPT. So I tried nearly every config there was. (Disabled IRQ for VGA and USB, Set ESCD to auto and manual, etc. Also removed NIC from system) No use, still same slow boot.
So what the heck, I tried installing W2K server again the same way, on a drive loose from the raid. With W2K there was no way I could get through the "Starting windows" message with the HPT driver loaded (I also tried F5/F7 with different PC types: standard/MPS/ACPI etc.)
By this time I realy got fed up with the HPT, so I disabled the RAID controller in the bios and was able to install W2K without any troubles. I rebooted and booting was quick as I was used to on other systems. So I rebooted, enabled the RAID with the 2 drives attached. After W2K booted, it found the mass storage controller, I installed the HPT driver from floppy and rebooted. Back to the slow boot, booting took about 10 to 15 minutes and the eventlog was full with the same messages I saw in XP.
Disableing the RAID controller would bring everything back to speed.
XP and W2K did report that the HPT controller was working fine in the devices list.
I also enabled the raid controller and pulled of the HD's. Quick boot after that, so I attached 1 HD. Again a quick boot. Connecting both, and back to the errors in the eventlog and the slow boot time.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I SHOULD DO. The system is driving me nuts, both the HD's and the mainboard aren't from the same supplier so just returning it, aint so easy. What's more likely to generate the problem, the HPT controller or the Maxtors? I saw a message on the Maxtor site about some drives having troubles with the HPT366 controller. They looked a lot like mine.
I saw a lot of messages from ppl that seem to have running W2K running on there board, so my gues something in broken.
Anyone got any idea???
All help, (and sympathies are appreciated :-)
Richard Hoogenboom
ps. email replys are also fine with me