I posted this over in the Motherboard forum before I noticed the Tech Support forum, figured it would be moved over here but just in case...
I built a computer for my younger brother for Christmas, and after much fighting I have gotten it into some semblance of stability...but there are two problems I would like to resolve if possible. His system is as follows:
A64 3500+
GB K8NSNXP-939 motherboard
ATI X800 Pro
300 GB SATA HDD
2x 512MB Corsair PC3200 ValueSelect RAM
EDIT: 480W Antec TruePower PS
The first is related to SATA detection on bootup: on a cold boot, everything is detected and runs, windows loads, etc. etc. If the machine is rebooted in any way other than a power-button-off/power-button-on, it will not find the SATA drive until it is power cycled again (as above). I have the drive attached to the nVidia onboard SATA, not the SiL RAID connector (I was initally trying to use this and had a whole world of other problems). Is there a setting for "Detect HDD after warm boot" that I have missed somewhere?
The second problem is related to the RAM - I understand from what I have read and experienced that this system will run in Dual Channel Mode -as it currently is- approoximately two days after hell freezes over; however, even in single channel mode I cannot get it to run the RAM faster than 100 MHz (200 DDR according to the BIOS). If I try to increase the current running speed through the CTRL-F1 menu additions the PC simply hangs and eventually boots in the 100MHz mode again.
Any suggestions would be most welcome, I have been fighting with this system since the 20th.
I built a computer for my younger brother for Christmas, and after much fighting I have gotten it into some semblance of stability...but there are two problems I would like to resolve if possible. His system is as follows:
A64 3500+
GB K8NSNXP-939 motherboard
ATI X800 Pro
300 GB SATA HDD
2x 512MB Corsair PC3200 ValueSelect RAM
EDIT: 480W Antec TruePower PS
The first is related to SATA detection on bootup: on a cold boot, everything is detected and runs, windows loads, etc. etc. If the machine is rebooted in any way other than a power-button-off/power-button-on, it will not find the SATA drive until it is power cycled again (as above). I have the drive attached to the nVidia onboard SATA, not the SiL RAID connector (I was initally trying to use this and had a whole world of other problems). Is there a setting for "Detect HDD after warm boot" that I have missed somewhere?
The second problem is related to the RAM - I understand from what I have read and experienced that this system will run in Dual Channel Mode -as it currently is- approoximately two days after hell freezes over; however, even in single channel mode I cannot get it to run the RAM faster than 100 MHz (200 DDR according to the BIOS). If I try to increase the current running speed through the CTRL-F1 menu additions the PC simply hangs and eventually boots in the 100MHz mode again.
Any suggestions would be most welcome, I have been fighting with this system since the 20th.