Abit KR7-RAID / 1800+ problem.

[Chuck]

I'm still got two problems with my newly installed Abit KR7-RAID system. KR7-RAID, 1800+, 256MB DDR Cruical, Taisol 760 cooler, SB Live, 2 NIC's, etc..

In the first boot of the day within about 5-10 mins I get a BSOD in win2000 which varies from message to message (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL appears reasonably frequently though). Today I tried to run memtest86 first thing and that crashed within a similar time frame as well (with an interrupt error I believe). After the crash the computer is fine for the rest of the day.
However once I tried to boot it up into the BIOS setup screen left it for a good 20mins, and then allowed it to boot into windows. When I did this there were no BSOD's. Do you think this means its a heat or power issue of some
kind. I have an AMD XP 1800+ cooled by a Taisol 760 and the CPU temp is usually around 55c which seems ok?

The second problem I'm having is that my second hard disk on the Highpoint RAID controller (by itself) is very very slow, it seems to copy data in stutters. You will hear a quick disk write, the light will stay on for a few seconds, the light will go off for a few more seconds, then it will start over with the quick disk write. When not writing to the HD (i.e. when you hear the disk) the application thats accessing the HD will seem to have frozen. I have temporarily solved this by putting the drive in PIO (?) 4 mode (which of cource is fairly slow anyway, but its quicker than the
alternative, and it doesn't freeze programs). The HD is fine on the regular IDE channels, and the problem only seems to happen when writing a larger amounts of data (> 100k). I've tried using all sorts of cables (ATA-100, normal, etc..) with the same results reguardless. The drive is an old'ish Maxtor UDMA-33 drive.

I have been told by a few people that a solution to both these problems could be to uninstall ACPI and just use the 'Standard PC' hal. This seemed a bit drastic to me, so I decided to do a new 'Standard PC' install of win2000
on a separate partition. I am unsure if it has fixed the BSOD problem (but I doubt it because it even crashed memtest86), but it definitely didn't fix the slow / stuttery RAID controler problem (even though I made sure it had an IRQ all to itself).

Any ideas?

Thanks

Chuck.

 

[FluxCapacitor]

If you could post which devices are using which IRQs it would be easier for us to determine if there is a likely problem.

Also, have you installed the drivers for your RAID controller and checked to make sure you don't have any exclamation points in your device listing?

You could also try removing 1 or both of the NICs and see if the problem goes away (I have the feeling this is where the problem lies). That would narrow down the problem.

 

[Chuck]

Well in my normal install all devices are shareing the same IRQ (11). In the special 'Standard PC' (non-ACPI) install i did the RAID controller had IRQ 11 all to itself. The SB Live and a NIC were sharing the same IRQ.

There are no exclamation points present. I will try removing NIC's when I next turn my PC off.

Thanks for your reply.