Hi, i've pretty much exhausted all that I can come up with to fix this problem so I decided to post here and see if anyone can help me to figure this out. I recently put together a machine that has the following installed...
Abit TH7-Raid Motherboard with Intel Pentium 4 1.5 ghz processor running at default voltage and speed
512 Meg of Rambus ram
2 IBM 60 gig deskstars and 2 IBM 40 gig deskstars in two RAID 0 stripe arrays (one 60 on each master and one 40 on each slave)
2 CD Roms drives on the master of each of the normal IDE channels
GEForce 2 Pro 64 meg
10/100 Network Card
Sound Blaster Live Value
Now, I have installed windows 2k professionial successfully and it seems to run pretty well, the problem came in when I received Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW) and tried playing it, the game installed fine and I can play it but after a few moments into the game it will lock up at random times. Here are the things that I have tried...
1. Installed latest graphics drivers from nvidia
2. Installed Directx 8.1
3. Installed latest sound drivers from creative labs
4. Installed ALL critical updates and service packs for windows 2k via windows update
It gets stranger....I then tried installing Quake 3 Arena and it does exactly the same thing, runs in to the menu, set up, into the game, lock up anywhere from 2 seconds to a minute into playing the game.
Next I decided to see if it was windows so I went to install XP. The first thing that happened with an upgrade to XP is that it hosed my system. The boot record was screwed up so I had to delete the array and then do a fresh install, the problem was that Windows XP will NOT recognize the array drives, it jsut says the drives are damaged when it tried to format NTFS and will not continue. So I reverted back to windows 2k went through all the above steps and it still does the same thing.
Things that I have not tried but am having a hard time justifying because it just doesn't seem necessary and I have nothing to support that it will fix teh problem.
1. Flashing to the latest motherboard bios
2. Putting a hard drive on the regular ide ports and installing windows xp to this and ultimately quake 3 or rtcw to see if they work
3. A different video card (maybe it's something wrong with teh geforce?)
4. Newer highpoint raid drivers (what i've read on abit's site is that windows xp has native support)
If you've read this far you can see that i've done quite a bit of work trying to get this figured out. As usual, the tech support departments at Microsoft, Activision and ABIT have been no help what soever and I cant' seem to find anyone else having a similar problem on any of my regularly visited forums. I hope someone reading this can help me out. Thanks for everyone's time!
Abit TH7-Raid Motherboard with Intel Pentium 4 1.5 ghz processor running at default voltage and speed
512 Meg of Rambus ram
2 IBM 60 gig deskstars and 2 IBM 40 gig deskstars in two RAID 0 stripe arrays (one 60 on each master and one 40 on each slave)
2 CD Roms drives on the master of each of the normal IDE channels
GEForce 2 Pro 64 meg
10/100 Network Card
Sound Blaster Live Value
Now, I have installed windows 2k professionial successfully and it seems to run pretty well, the problem came in when I received Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW) and tried playing it, the game installed fine and I can play it but after a few moments into the game it will lock up at random times. Here are the things that I have tried...
1. Installed latest graphics drivers from nvidia
2. Installed Directx 8.1
3. Installed latest sound drivers from creative labs
4. Installed ALL critical updates and service packs for windows 2k via windows update
It gets stranger....I then tried installing Quake 3 Arena and it does exactly the same thing, runs in to the menu, set up, into the game, lock up anywhere from 2 seconds to a minute into playing the game.
Next I decided to see if it was windows so I went to install XP. The first thing that happened with an upgrade to XP is that it hosed my system. The boot record was screwed up so I had to delete the array and then do a fresh install, the problem was that Windows XP will NOT recognize the array drives, it jsut says the drives are damaged when it tried to format NTFS and will not continue. So I reverted back to windows 2k went through all the above steps and it still does the same thing.
Things that I have not tried but am having a hard time justifying because it just doesn't seem necessary and I have nothing to support that it will fix teh problem.
1. Flashing to the latest motherboard bios
2. Putting a hard drive on the regular ide ports and installing windows xp to this and ultimately quake 3 or rtcw to see if they work
3. A different video card (maybe it's something wrong with teh geforce?)
4. Newer highpoint raid drivers (what i've read on abit's site is that windows xp has native support)
If you've read this far you can see that i've done quite a bit of work trying to get this figured out. As usual, the tech support departments at Microsoft, Activision and ABIT have been no help what soever and I cant' seem to find anyone else having a similar problem on any of my regularly visited forums. I hope someone reading this can help me out. Thanks for everyone's time!