Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[radical]

Wrong You have to make the raid from tha scratch ... not to install on standard sata. If you don't install it from scratch you will get a big blue screen because the OS does not have installed the raid driver.
The mobos were good.

Hey ChrissTi, nope, not true, I tried both ways. To build your array from an existing disk, that disk has to be on the same controller and eventually part of that array. If you "build" the array from scratch in BIOS, it erases that existing disk! Then you can not build from existing.

I didn't get the Blue Screen when it was building the array, it was running perfectly happily. I got the Blue Screen with one disk (no array) on the Intel controller when it tried loading the drivers for the Intel controller at installation. I followed the Motherboard manual Exactly as they laid out for one disk and it still Blue Screened (both motherboards).

I had to try it this way, because I had no other recourse - I tried everything to install on the Intel controller (and I do mean everything).

[zicada]

Got some new memory today, after frying my old Ballistix 8500's.
Either those old sticks were really sub-par, or they had horrible issues with this board.

I decided to shell out for OCZ Flex 9200's, and im definately happy did that

im at DDR2 1100 4-4-4-4 PL6 (TRD 6) 4 hours into OCCT now

First time ive been able to get below 50ns in Everest with over 10k in read. Sick sticks!

At this point im getting better performance out of the new F7 than F3 too, plus the droop is alot better in F7.

Once my E8400 arrives ill go for the sub 10sec Pi 1MB and join the XS team

Im lovin this board more and more!

[ChrissTi]

I didn't get the Blue Screen when it was building the array, it was running perfectly happily. I got the Blue Screen with one disk (no array) on the Intel controller when it tried loading the drivers for the Intel controller at installation. I followed the Motherboard manual Exactly as they laid out for one disk and it still Blue Screened (both motherboards).

I had to try it this way, because I had no other recourse - I tried everything to install on the Intel controller (and I do mean everything).

Well I'm using Vista ... not XP. Vista has a standard ahci/raid driver, and it doesn't need to load a raid driver on boot ...
Well I'll put and XP, on a secondary partition, just to see if it works or not.

[HeadShotWI]

Well I'm using Vista ... not XP. Vista has a standard ahci/raid driver, and it doesn't need to load a raid driver on boot ...
Well I'll put and XP, on a secondary partition, just to see if it works or not.

I know you guys have said this a few times but I could NOT get vista to install properly without loading the driver manually from gigabytes page for vista ultimate with my bios set to AHCI mode. I did not try RAID mode.

[ChrissTi]

I know you guys have said this a few times but I could NOT get vista to install properly without loading the driver manually from gigabytes page for vista ultimate with my bios set to AHCI mode. I did not try RAID mode.

I don't know what to say ... I had no problems at all ...

[radical]

Ya, didn't want to got the Vista route just yet. Was going to put it on my GA-8INXP first and see if I was ok with it. Good luck, hope it works for you.