Hi,
I've had an ABS Awesome 5500 for about two and a half years now. The motherboard on this machine has blown 4 times now. I started with a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and the last one to go was a GA-8IK1100. ABS (after about a month and a half of down time) is now sending me an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe to replace it.
I ran a RAID 0 configuration on the GA-8IK1100 via the southbridge and I'm wondering if I get the right settings in the BIOS on the new Asus P4P800-E Deluxe will it be able to recognize my old RAID 0 volume.
Here are my thoughts. I'm planning on hooking up my old SATA drives (the RAID 0 volume) to the plugs controlled by the southbridge on the Asus. The Asus has the same southbridge as my old GA-8IK1100 with IHCR5. If I enter the BIOS and set it to run the RAID from the southbridge, will the RAID BIOS see the old volume? If so, are there any other major problems that I might run into?
I would really like to get this to work because I use 50 or more programs and I don't want to have to reinstall all of them and get their settings back to the way I had them. Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.
Ryan
P.S. I don't recommend buying an ABS computer. Like I said, this computer has gone down four times with the motherboard shorting out. I purchased the longest extended warranty they had, but they are a pain to work with and have taken close to two months to get me this motherboard. They use 2netservice for their extended warranty work and they have got to be the worst service company around. On my first call with this blown motherboard they told me I'd have the replacement within a week. When I didn't hear anything for a week I called them back. When someone finally talked to me they told me they had it and were testing it and that I should have it in a couple of days. I still didn't get it so I called back again. I left mutiple messages. No one called me back. This went on for a week or so. Finally after a month and a half they told me they don't do work for ABS anymore and I'd have to take it up with them. My point is: unless you like pulling your hair out and not having your computer to work on don't buy from ABS or any other company that uses 2netservice for their extended warranty. I'm hoping this Asus board will hold up better than the Gigabyte ones.
I've had an ABS Awesome 5500 for about two and a half years now. The motherboard on this machine has blown 4 times now. I started with a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and the last one to go was a GA-8IK1100. ABS (after about a month and a half of down time) is now sending me an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe to replace it.
I ran a RAID 0 configuration on the GA-8IK1100 via the southbridge and I'm wondering if I get the right settings in the BIOS on the new Asus P4P800-E Deluxe will it be able to recognize my old RAID 0 volume.
Here are my thoughts. I'm planning on hooking up my old SATA drives (the RAID 0 volume) to the plugs controlled by the southbridge on the Asus. The Asus has the same southbridge as my old GA-8IK1100 with IHCR5. If I enter the BIOS and set it to run the RAID from the southbridge, will the RAID BIOS see the old volume? If so, are there any other major problems that I might run into?
I would really like to get this to work because I use 50 or more programs and I don't want to have to reinstall all of them and get their settings back to the way I had them. Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.
Ryan
P.S. I don't recommend buying an ABS computer. Like I said, this computer has gone down four times with the motherboard shorting out. I purchased the longest extended warranty they had, but they are a pain to work with and have taken close to two months to get me this motherboard. They use 2netservice for their extended warranty work and they have got to be the worst service company around. On my first call with this blown motherboard they told me I'd have the replacement within a week. When I didn't hear anything for a week I called them back. When someone finally talked to me they told me they had it and were testing it and that I should have it in a couple of days. I still didn't get it so I called back again. I left mutiple messages. No one called me back. This went on for a week or so. Finally after a month and a half they told me they don't do work for ABS anymore and I'd have to take it up with them. My point is: unless you like pulling your hair out and not having your computer to work on don't buy from ABS or any other company that uses 2netservice for their extended warranty. I'm hoping this Asus board will hold up better than the Gigabyte ones.
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