Monkmachine

I found this thread @ the weekend and all I can say is wow!
One question how come you have chosen a pentium D? Sureley the amount of money spent on you case and other bits, you could have got a conroe(thats if it was released when you started. Keep up the good work I'll keep checkin progress.

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aajvs99

loving the wiring mess! looks like my first comp build... anyway the IDE thing is prolly cause you dont have anything on ur IDE ports installed so the mobo prolly freaked out for a second. well hope to see the finished product soon!

noxious89123

The only difference between the Armor LCS and Armor is that the standard armor comes with an iCage (and can have upto 3, if you buy a couple more separate) whereas the LCS comes with a bracket that mounts in the front 5.25" bays to hold the dual 120mm rad.

It is possible to mount a dual rad in the space in the front without using this bracket, and using zip-ties or something similar to hold it in place. I've seen pics of this, but cannot remember where =/

Wiring can be a real *****, but take the time to do a good job, and it'll look awesome.

Its looking really awesome so far Goby. You are an inspiration to everyone here

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Goby, hope you fix the hard drive problems, after that you can do the cable management

gobygoby

Thanks!

I bought everything right before conroe came out. Its ok though. I am sure I will be happy with the Pent D. Plus I was pretty set on the mobo. If I can get this rig going, I am sure it will scream!

Yeah I am a bit overwhelmed with all the wireing mess. I just have to take my time and do some in depth planning

Thanks, I am having a blast building this thing!

I hope I fix my problem tooo!!! Which is where this post starts.

background: I went through Bios and setup everything to what I thought was correct, including the raid array, which you will see later. Startup recognizes all my HD's, mobo, ram, but for some reason I cant get too far.

as I said, I thought I set up bios correctly. The next step (according to the manual) is to install the driver disc for the mobo. but thats where I keep getting the error. the pics are in sequence as the startup happens.

oh yeah, I am running Bios version F4 from gigabyte....thats what came loaded, I didnt flash it or anything.

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I cant get past that last screen and its driving me nuts. I keep trying to change stuff but nothings working. I revert everything back to stock and still nothing. One time in bios I selected the setting "Set enhanced performance" and I got past that error screen in the driver install, but the next screen only had 2 options.....back and reboot. back actually rebooted....

I need some help here...if thats possible!

TIA!! big time!
Kyle

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BrinNutz

Hmm...Did you install the RAID Driver's from the floppy with the mobo??

Also, did you enable the Sata Raid in BIOS? I don't know if your's has it or not, but mine is hidden like a needl in a haystack...

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Hiya Goby!

Modding.Fan from over at TBCS here...just read your thread after you saw project DEEP PURPLE.

Scary how much our two build have in common. I'm jealous though, you get to use both of your chipset blocks. I couldn't use my south bridge for a couple reasons. Looks awesome! Great work, can't wait to see it completed.

You're now in my list of logs to check whenever I'm on the net and not elbow deep cleaning up Deep Purple.

Edit: Forgot to mention...on my Gigabyte Motherboard to do the RAID I had to do three processes:
1) on a seperate computer, had to transfer the SATA-RAID drivers from the Mobo CD onto a Floppy Disk, to keep it handy for use when Windows (or another OS) needs them during installation.
2) Ensure your primary Bios has the Raid settings turned on.
3) Configure the RAID Bios (the option for this comes up shortly after the initial bios setup line on POST) to know which physical disks to use.

The book that came with my Gigabyte MoBo was a bit rough on the exact process...took me a bit of time to realize that i had to do...eventually had to call in reinforces (my neighbor who had just done the same thing a week earlier).

2nd Edit: Also forgot to mention...the Raid Bios shoudl have a very hard to spot, yet very important setting to turn that Raid Array into a "Bootable" raid array. You may have to dig through both the main bios, and the Raid Setup, before you find it. Took me ages.

Cheers!

-MF

drummer4lifex

You should make sure that in the BIOS your SATA drives are not PATA emulated. Often BIOSes will turn this on at default. Also, if that doesn't work, try rebuilding the array.

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gobygoby

no.....I followed the manual for the mobo and got the bios stuff set, then the next step was to install all the drivers.. but cant get past that error.

for me, the "enable bios" is pretty easy to set. so yes I have that set to "raid".

Glad you made it over here! When I first got into computers/modding I started at TBCS and then found this place. a lot more action over here, but tbcs is a nice small community.

yeah its a bit scary how similar our builds are, even started about the same time and similar timelines in the build too. not to mention lots of the same hardware.
At this point, there isnt any documentation about seperate raid drivers...or what not. and having it bootable....yes I believe it is. up in one of the pics it says "bootable - Yes"

I dont know whats up. I wish I had someone to help me troubleshoot here....that would be nice. Anyway, glad you made a post!

hmmmm....thats something new...yet for some reason sounds familiar.maybe I overlooked a setting about that or something. I'll take a look tonight.

Thanks everyone for the help!

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mattlb0619

boot off the xp cd and press f6 when prompted then load the sata raid drivers off the floppies. thenn go ahead with installing xp.the disks that arent being detected are for the pata disks not the sata ones, disregard it.

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