Raid 0

G

Guest

Hi,

I have reccently joined the 64 age by buying a DFI lanparty NF4 ultra D,
3200+ athlon 64, 1 gig 3200xms corsair RAM and a connect3D x800xl. I have had
problems installing windows XP professional using 2 160 maxtor SATA drives on
RAID 0. This is my first time using RAID, and when installing windows, it
seemed to take forever (considering the hardware i am using) but i thought it
was just that it was writing to both drives so i should expext it to take a
long time. Anyway, i left the computer to do its thing, and went out. Upon
returning to my computer, i was faced with a blue screen of doom, stating
that my Pagefile was corrupt.

I know the pagefile is very important to windows, and realised it would not
boot if said file was corrupt. I rebooted the computer expecting to see the
same screen, but instead it continued to the installing screen (the one with
the nice XP graphics) therefore, it must have crashed during installation.

Am i doing anything wrong? Or is there a different method because of 64? I
did think it could be something to do with how i set my memory up, but that
is all set to AUTO in the bios, so that cant be it (can it?)

Anyway, any help is greatly appriciated.

Tom
 
G

Guest

It looks like the paging file is having a problem with RAID 0. Why do you
need RAID 0 anyway? Just curious.
 
F

frodo

did you consult the manual and follow the directions? ie,

0) enable the raid bios in the regular bios

1) use the raid bios to build the array, selecting the stripe size; stick
w/ the default 64K (normal desktop machine) or 128K (gaming or video
editing machine).

2) enabled the on-chip raid mode in the bios

3) select the raid device as the boot device (after the CD when doing the
XP setup, then first after you get it all going).

4) press F6 and insert the floppy disk w/ the raid drivers when asked
during the very begininng of XP setup
 
S

Seafarer

Hi,

I have reccently joined the 64 age by buying a DFI lanparty NF4 ultra D,
3200+ athlon 64, 1 gig 3200xms corsair RAM and a connect3D x800xl. I have had
problems installing windows XP professional using 2 160 maxtor SATA drives on
RAID 0. This is my first time using RAID, and when installing windows, it
seemed to take forever (considering the hardware i am using) but i thought it
was just that it was writing to both drives so i should expext it to take a
long time. Anyway, i left the computer to do its thing, and went out. Upon
returning to my computer, i was faced with a blue screen of doom, stating
that my Pagefile was corrupt.

I know the pagefile is very important to windows, and realised it would not
boot if said file was corrupt. I rebooted the computer expecting to see the
same screen, but instead it continued to the installing screen (the one with
the nice XP graphics) therefore, it must have crashed during installation.

Am i doing anything wrong? Or is there a different method because of 64? I
did think it could be something to do with how i set my memory up, but that
is all set to AUTO in the bios, so that cant be it (can it?)

Anyway, any help is greatly appriciated.

Tom
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I got RAID on my new computer but can anyone explain what exactly it
is?I havn't got a clue.Cheers
 
S

Seafarer

Boys and girls, today we're going to learn how to do a Google search!
Won't that be fun? Open your browser, little Seafarer....

http://www.google.com/search?source...s=GGLD,GGLD:2005-05,GGLD:en&q=what+is+raid(0)
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Thought I'd ask someone who knew about it and explain it to me.By the
way I'm a 6' 3" ex-Royal Marine maybe you should think twice before
calling people little! or at least give me an address and I'll mention
it to you personally,but you won't.Little shits don't, they hide
behind the screen and type away,usually with one hand!work it
out!.That other wanker who sneered"I agree" deserves to have their
nappies changed as well.What a bunch of wankers.Cheap jibes are
cowardly,I spent twenty years in the forces protecting jelly babies
like you.I've killfiled your address and replies,unless it's your
address, you aint worth the airtime.By the way some nice guy e-mailed
a full explanation,now go back to your gay mag.Cowardly tosser.
 
B

Bob I

Start, Help and Support, RAID.
Thought I'd ask someone who knew about it and explain it to me.By the
way I'm a 6' 3" ex-Royal Marine maybe you should think twice before
calling people little! or at least give me an address and I'll mention
it to you personally,but you won't.Little shits don't, they hide
behind the screen and type away,usually with one hand!work it
out!.That other wanker who sneered"I agree" deserves to have their
nappies changed as well.What a bunch of wankers.Cheap jibes are
cowardly,I spent twenty years in the forces protecting jelly babies
like you.I've killfiled your address and replies,unless it's your
address, you aint worth the airtime.By the way some nice guy e-mailed
a full explanation,now go back to your gay mag.Cowardly tosser.
Click to expand...
 
P

Paul Knudsen

I'm a 6' 3" ex-Royal Marine maybe you should think twice before
calling people little!
Click to expand...

Woooo I'm impressed. Now you look even dumber than before. Don't
bother replying, even if you don't know what a plonk is.
 

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