I got my KT7-RAID board in september last year. I didn't enabled the Highpoint controller in the BIOS, I just set it up with my Maxtor 13.6 HD and an old Seagate 2 gig for back up.
For about 7 months it was the fastest, most stable system I've ever had. Then......
A couple months ago I traded for an identicle Maxtor 13.6 HD and set up a RAID 0 array. Since then I've reinstalled the OS (98SE) and all software several times and still I get lockups, GPF's and BSD's on a fairly regular basis. Oh yeah, and through in some illegal opps for good measure.
Since the beginning (sept.) my 750 T-Bird has been OC'd to 850 at default voltage. Also, my 128mb stick of memman CAS2 PC-100 (infinon chips) is running at 133, CAS2 with 4 bank interleave and all the fastest settings enabled. But, as I said, the system ran absolutely stable before I went to RAID.
I flashed the board BIOS once, but at the moment I don't remeber what version it is. WW I think. Anyway I KNOW the RAID BIOS is version v1.03b1. And, I'm using Highpoint 370 driver version v1.2.0612 (latest I know of).
So, I'm wondering, anyone had a similar experience? Got any suggestions?
I know there's a new board BIOS out that includes a RAID BIOS update, but the fix description doesn't seem to address my issues.
I've read that the trade off for the speed of RAID is sacraficing some stability, but SHEEESH!!!! Some days this damn thing is almost unusable. If can't get it stabalized I'll ditch the RAID jaz.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Steve
For about 7 months it was the fastest, most stable system I've ever had. Then......
A couple months ago I traded for an identicle Maxtor 13.6 HD and set up a RAID 0 array. Since then I've reinstalled the OS (98SE) and all software several times and still I get lockups, GPF's and BSD's on a fairly regular basis. Oh yeah, and through in some illegal opps for good measure.
Since the beginning (sept.) my 750 T-Bird has been OC'd to 850 at default voltage. Also, my 128mb stick of memman CAS2 PC-100 (infinon chips) is running at 133, CAS2 with 4 bank interleave and all the fastest settings enabled. But, as I said, the system ran absolutely stable before I went to RAID.
I flashed the board BIOS once, but at the moment I don't remeber what version it is. WW I think. Anyway I KNOW the RAID BIOS is version v1.03b1. And, I'm using Highpoint 370 driver version v1.2.0612 (latest I know of).
So, I'm wondering, anyone had a similar experience? Got any suggestions?
I know there's a new board BIOS out that includes a RAID BIOS update, but the fix description doesn't seem to address my issues.
I've read that the trade off for the speed of RAID is sacraficing some stability, but SHEEESH!!!! Some days this damn thing is almost unusable. If can't get it stabalized I'll ditch the RAID jaz.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Steve