k8n neo 2----raid questions

[chas]

im new to the computer building world, my brother just recently put one together for me and raid will not run properly in slots 3 and 4 (closest to processor)

the computer boots fine up until it hits the window bars and it freezez and looks grayish/darkish.

so, i have my hard drives in slots 1 and 2...away from processor. the computer works fine and i can dynamic overclock...colonel/sargeant/bla bla bla. but sure enough it will freeze at least once a day. any front side bus raising and it won't even boot. if i mess with memory timings or anything else my results involve no boot or worse...taking case off and moving jumper wire up and then back down to get my shiz running again. btw, i dont know what the little wire is called, but it works when i switch it to the higher pins and drop it down.(little wire down near bottom of board) so im just running with bios set to optimized/stock with no overclocking, 2200.

so my main question is, how can i get my computer to boot properly with my hard drives in the right slots near processor to enable overclocking?

thanx for reading and i promise i can only get better.

chas.

[kouch]

the little wire is called a "cmos jumper"

BTW:

WELCOME TO THE FORUMS

Are you running raid? Also make sure that your PCI speed in bios is set at 66. Don't know what else to tell you, you may just have some bad sata ports 3 and 4, but that seems rather strange.

[chas]

ill check the speed of pci if i can find it...lol. anyone else have a suggestion to make 3 and 4 work thatd be great. or if theres anyway to safely overclock with 1 and 2?

[Tirlista]

Check out the Neo2 guide:http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43033

One idea is to enable RAID for SATA 1&2 as well as 3&4. I've been messing around with this lately, I just have problems when I go back to stock speeds and plug my storage drives back in - my SATA raid doesn't get picked up as boot.

Almost gave me a heart attack the first time I saw it! :(

[X_C]

Make sure you lock the HT at 3x
Then losen your RAM timing a bit and lock your PCI at 33, not by CPU
Then over clock to a comfurtable level and enter windows, at windows use clock gen to push your FSB up slowly and you will eventually find that systems sweet spot.

X_C

[chas]

is it possible for me to just keep my hard drives in 1 and 2 and still overclock without having the freeze every now and again.

i have gotten nice results just using the dynamic overclocking feature, but sure enough the freeze will happen.

so if u can tell me/explain exactly how to mess with stuff in my bios that may let me overclock without the freeze. and forget the fsb option in bios that definitly won't work. but i can do it in core center...that is raise fsb to like 219 no prob. but the freeze happens and it doesn't happen in mid game, its normally after stressful situations or opening and closing links.

are there any dangers in trying to overclock with my hard drives in the wrong slots?

damn, i hate being a newbie.