Hello everybody. I finally purchased my ÜßérPûtér last week and I built the system and I think I did a very good job at it. However, I am having some serious problems with my build that are really starting to drive me crazy. Here are my specs;
E6600
Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 CL4
P5N-E SLI
BFG 8800 GTX
2 X 74GB Raptor
2 X 500GB Caviar
Thermaltake 850w PSU
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Antec P180
Those are the main components. My main problems have been with the HDs. Please read through my problems and let me know if you can help with any of them.
Problem #1
I bought an external floppy so I could boot my RAID drivers, but when I tried to install XP, the setup did not recognize my floppy, eliminating the sole purpose of its existence. I checked the BIOS and everything seems to be fine, it worked on my other computer just fine. Im going to RMA it unless someone can help me figure out whats going on.
Problem #2
The plastic cover of the Sata connector of one of the Raptors got ripped off. It is currently stuck inside the Sata cable. I fault flimsy manufacturing cause I do not recall ever putting that much force on it. If i carefully place the Sata pins to the cable with the plastic still stuck in it, it boots fine. Already formated it and everything and installed XP on a RAID 0 array.
Problem #3
One of my Caviars doesnt seem to work. At first, it would show up on the POST, but after a while, it stopped appearing. It doesnt say "Sata1: None" like the others, rather it says "Sata1: ". Its blank which is kinda weird. XP would not boot. Im RMAing it unless someone thinks there something else wrong. I tried external and on two different machines, same buggy.
Problem #4
After much frustration with problems #2 and #3, I decided to install XP on one Raptor. After it finished formatting and got to 100%, I got an error message that I must summarize cause I dont remember it well; "Windows cannot format this drive because it may be damaged or you may have to check your SCSI drivers...." Something like that.
I decided to do a quick format and voila, the quickformat continued as normal and copied the XP files and the setup continued as normal.
Later I reinstalled the broken Raptor and formated and again got this error when installing XP on the RAID array.
Does anybody know what is going on here?
Problem #4
I got two blue screens within a span of 10 minutes and my computer froze up in the morning. I am blaming this entirely on my HDs since the blue screens mainly appeared when downloading and installing applications. Two were during attemps to use Windows Update and the other was during an MSN Messenger install.
Problem #5
When I had my system running, I managed to install some games and try them out. They werent working properly.
Medieval 2 was exhibiting some weird jittering and the mouse was constantly blinking. The game looked horrible and i had V.1.1 plus the latest nVidia drivers.
I tried to use AA with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, and nothing doing. Which is weird cause I had played that card with an X1950 Pro AGP on my old system and I could apply AA without any problem.
Call of Duty 2 crashed once, but the game runs well.
Can anybody please look over my problems and let me know if they can help.
E6600
Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 CL4
P5N-E SLI
BFG 8800 GTX
2 X 74GB Raptor
2 X 500GB Caviar
Thermaltake 850w PSU
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Antec P180
Those are the main components. My main problems have been with the HDs. Please read through my problems and let me know if you can help with any of them.
Problem #1
I bought an external floppy so I could boot my RAID drivers, but when I tried to install XP, the setup did not recognize my floppy, eliminating the sole purpose of its existence. I checked the BIOS and everything seems to be fine, it worked on my other computer just fine. Im going to RMA it unless someone can help me figure out whats going on.
Problem #2
The plastic cover of the Sata connector of one of the Raptors got ripped off. It is currently stuck inside the Sata cable. I fault flimsy manufacturing cause I do not recall ever putting that much force on it. If i carefully place the Sata pins to the cable with the plastic still stuck in it, it boots fine. Already formated it and everything and installed XP on a RAID 0 array.
Problem #3
One of my Caviars doesnt seem to work. At first, it would show up on the POST, but after a while, it stopped appearing. It doesnt say "Sata1: None" like the others, rather it says "Sata1: ". Its blank which is kinda weird. XP would not boot. Im RMAing it unless someone thinks there something else wrong. I tried external and on two different machines, same buggy.
Problem #4
After much frustration with problems #2 and #3, I decided to install XP on one Raptor. After it finished formatting and got to 100%, I got an error message that I must summarize cause I dont remember it well; "Windows cannot format this drive because it may be damaged or you may have to check your SCSI drivers...." Something like that.
I decided to do a quick format and voila, the quickformat continued as normal and copied the XP files and the setup continued as normal.
Later I reinstalled the broken Raptor and formated and again got this error when installing XP on the RAID array.
Does anybody know what is going on here?
Problem #4
I got two blue screens within a span of 10 minutes and my computer froze up in the morning. I am blaming this entirely on my HDs since the blue screens mainly appeared when downloading and installing applications. Two were during attemps to use Windows Update and the other was during an MSN Messenger install.
Problem #5
When I had my system running, I managed to install some games and try them out. They werent working properly.
Medieval 2 was exhibiting some weird jittering and the mouse was constantly blinking. The game looked horrible and i had V.1.1 plus the latest nVidia drivers.
I tried to use AA with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, and nothing doing. Which is weird cause I had played that card with an X1950 Pro AGP on my old system and I could apply AA without any problem.
Call of Duty 2 crashed once, but the game runs well.
Can anybody please look over my problems and let me know if they can help.