My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[angelshonnny]

Have you tried in in a ... less auspicious system?

Yes, in my 1,5ghz laptop Works fine.

[D_A]

Make sure your beast has legacy usb, usb 1.1 ... pretty much everything usb enabled. It's got to be something in there somewhere.

[ptelles]

Nice rig jcool.

It's nice to have found a thread with Harpertown fans.

[STEvil]

PS2 and wireless do not mix well.. thats all the info I can give. I usually toss ps2 wireless stuff out

[angelshonnny]

PS2 and wireless do not mix well.. thats all the info I can give. I usually toss ps2 wireless stuff out

Would also have tossed it, if I didn't get it working last night Simply connected only the USB, but in another port Is there a difference in the onboard ports or is is the port I used first maybe faulty?

[D_A]

You're only looking at 5v. If there's any dust/grime/dirt it hasn't the nads to break through.

[Madman666]

Would also have tossed it, if I didn't get it working last night Simply connected only the USB, but in another port Is there a difference in the onboard ports or is is the port I used first maybe faulty?

What are your BIOS setting concerning USB (quantity and speed)?

[angelshonnny]

What are your BIOS setting concerning USB (quantity and speed)?

8 USB hi speed. There's also the full speed option, but high speed was deault,so I left it like that. It works now, so I can't be bothered about the one port right now Thx for the help guys

[drewhemm]

Should work ok I guess.. please report back and do some write benches if at all possible (HDtune/HDTach, works only when there are no partitions on the array tho)

I'll have to wait until I migrate drives again as I'm not going to remove Windows in order to perform the tests! The arrays seem to perform well in general benchmarks, they just lock up under heavy write operations, such as installing a program from a 1GB+ MSI etc...

Has anyone tried with the JMB external RAID controller? Does it perform better? I have 1x PCI-E JMB controller that worked very well with my old system. The only reason I didn't carry it over to this system is the bandwidth limit of the 1x PCI-E interface

[shanems3]

not with the pci-e, i have ran a SCSI controller in pci-x, with 3 drives in Mirror, runs ok, but it was very loud... so i went to sata raid with 4 drives on onboard

[drewhemm]

not with the pci-e, i have ran a SCSI controller in pci-x, with 3 drives in Mirror, runs ok, but it was very loud... so i went to sata raid with 4 drives on onboard

Are you running Windows on the RAID array? Are you experiencing any momentary lockups?

[jcool]

I'm running my OS on the raid 5 array too BTW, no slowdowns or anything, but it's just a traditional HDD array so why should it...

[shanems3]

Are you running Windows on the RAID array? Are you experiencing any momentary lockups?

none what so ever , 4 250hdd sataII in raid 0, and 1 sataII 1 TB as concentrated drive for storage.. no slow downs except on storage drive when windows turns it off ... raid drives stay on..

[Madman666]

Are you running Windows on the RAID array? Are you experiencing any momentary lockups?

No lockups, just speeeed...
5x 1TB WD RE3 in Raid 5 =

[jcool]

Yeah WD drives in Raid 5 on the Adaptec really kick arse don't they
My array is full btw.. I think I need to get a 5805, think it will recognize the array so I can expand? Or maybe I'll just add a 5805 and span the array between the 2 cards

[Jaco]

No , that will cause conflicts ...
I think it's better to get a new 5805 and sell that 5405 to me

[jcool]

Hehe, that'd be another option I'd be willing to contemplate.. but damn it what the hell happened to server-stuff pricing? Not only the Z7S went through the roof but also prices on raidcons... argh!

[shanems3]

we run raid5 scsi at work, that is the biggest pain in the ass.. when we loose an HDD in the array, it take an act of god to add a hdd and restore the 3 drive array... do you guys have that trouble with raid 5 array's?? we use adaptec 2130s for the raid card on winxp 32bit..

[jcool]

No, I once rebuilt my Raid 5 just to see if it worked.. after a few hours it was completed fine.

[Bossmonkey]

hey all,
ive stubbled onto another problem with my setup,
im pretty sure its psu related because everytime i run a prime95 i get a lock up and am forced to reboot, this all happened after adding back my second 4870x2 and adding an additional 1tb wd drive,
but my psu is a thermaltake 1200w cablemanagement psu, shouldnt this be well over enough poweR?
also. i have only 1 cpu on my z7s ws, so my 4pin mobo connector is NOT connected, should i connect this? will it make a difference?
thank you!

[angelshonnny]

My system died last night I t had been running at fsb420x7.5 for 3 days rendering some building models without any problems. Temps were fine, running max 52c and 38-42c idle, Ram max 65c. So yesterday when i got home my wife said that it had shut down twice during the day she's been working on a school project, nothing serious, only Office and internet running, so nothing suspect there. I just installed a second display day before, but that shouldn't a problem?? I opened cpu-z and it showed only 6 cores I restardted, lowered the fsb to 400 x 7.5 and then save and exit, and now it doesn't power on. Tried to clear CMOS, no luck The LED on the mb comes on, but no fans turning no HDD running nothing. What the H could it be? power supply? Is it news?

[Jaco]

Sorry to hear that
What does the debug card say?

[Madman666]

My system died last night I t had been running at fsb420x7.5 for 3 days rendering some building models without any problems. Temps were fine, running max 52c and 38-42c idle, Ram max 65c. So yesterday when i got home my wife said that it had shut down twice during the day she's been working on a school project, nothing serious, only Office and internet running, so nothing suspect there. I just installed a second display day before, but that shouldn't a problem?? I opened cpu-z and it showed only 6 cores I restardted, lowered the fsb to 400 x 7.5 and then save and exit, and now it doesn't power on. Tried to clear CMOS, no luck The LED on the mb comes on, but no fans turning no HDD running nothing. What the H could it be? power supply? Is it news?

That really s..ks.
your CPU cooling was still up and running ?
A year back my pump died, and 2 minutes after my CPU also

[shanems3]

Sorry to hear that
What does the debug card say?

yeah, what does your GP diag card say?? FF??

[s0lid]

Guys, one word and one type number:
SuperMicro X7DWA-N

Can hit 430FSB easily :P
Rock solid realibilty