Originally posted by: mechBgon
Ok, I have the PDF version of the manual I downloaded, and I've heard that not everyone's manual is this version, so bear with me... but it's item #8 on page 25 and is called "IDE Activity LED (2-pin)" in mine, right after the descriptions of the parallel, serial and audio jacks. HTH
Originally posted by: Huntress
I have two of these boards, one I am setting up now.
Couple of questions with setup of this board.
1) How do I get this board to recognise only one single SATA harddrive (using IDE drive with RocketRaid converter) as boot device? I only have one harddrive hooked up and would like to obtain the added performance of the SATA controller. I would be using RAID 0, but until the Sil / nForce2 issue is addressed, I would just like to use one drive. I have the SATA controller enabled, and it detects the harddrive. I have the boot sequence as Floppy, CRROM, SCSI or HDD0 (neither of which work). On boot it trys everything (including the network) to boot from except the HDD.
One note: I did install XP Pro from the IDE controller initially because of this.
2) This one seems dumb... but WHERE THE HELL do you hook up the HDD LED to this board??? The manual remarkably doesn't say, nor do I see markings on the board to indicate this. Does this board not support that?
Thanks!
Diana
Originally posted by: squidman
Originally posted by: edmundoab
hi, I've recently purchase the A7N8X PCB 2.0 Deluxe from newegg,
While setting up the system , I came upon this RAID feature which I have failed to disable,
according to the manual, a menu is suppose to pop up once you hit Ctrl+S or F4
but mine is just a black screen
the only thing that appears is some figures when I move the arrow keys,
can anyone help me with this RAID utility?
You gotta disable it via the jumper, which is called, as i remember SATA_ENABLE, and move it from pins 1-2, to 2-3
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Also, if you want dual-channel DDR, switch the memory module from slot #2 to slot #1
Originally posted by: Psychosylph
Tetsuo-
Had the same problem last night. I finally managed to get it to flash by loading the default BIOS options and using the Alt+F2 flash utility. BTW, it killed my board even though it seemed successful. I only did it because I was trying to get the SATA RAID to work properly - my question to you is, do you need to do this? I did it for a very particular reason but I now have a dead board that was working fine before the flash...
Anyway, anyone in San Diego that can help me out with fixing it? Barring that, anyone want an A7N8X Deluxe that just needs a new BIOS chip?
Good luck with that. Also, you can RMA the board as was said earlier.Q. I flashed with the wrong file. Or my flash was incomplete. Is there any way to recover?
A. If your floppy drive seeks on power up and then stops after a short period of time, you may have a chance to recover. The following information was obtained from Wim's Bios http://www.wimsbios.com/ FAQ's. Corrections on AWARD Bios by Terry McGuire.
Award: The boot-block BIOS will execute an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on a bootable diskette. Copy an Award flasher & the correct BIOS *.bin file on the floppy and execute it automatically by putting AWDFLASH *.bin /sn /py /cc /r in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The * would be the correct bios .bin file and there must be spaces between the slash marks. Put it in the floppy and turn on the computer when the floppy seeks it will load the correct bios and reboot by itself. When it finishes you have to remove the floppy and enter the CMOS SETUP and modify the CMOS for your configuration.