Re: Was "going to upgrade my old computer"
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:48:46 -0400
Albert wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:04:35 -0400, Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Albert wrote:First off,If you are going to convert the single hard drive, to a RAID configuration
As per smlunatick's suggestion I decided not to use my old tower and I
went with a Black Thermaltake V9 Case # VJ400G1N2Z with there 500 W
power supply. My old tower has one 120 mm fan whereas this new one
has 2-120 mm fans (with the capability of bumping up the front end fan
to a 140 mm and 2-240 mm fans and is watercool ready (which I doubt I
will ever use)
motherboard--- ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Intel P45 LGA 775
CPU---Intel Core 2 Duo E8660 Wolfdale 3.33 GHz 1333MHz socket Socket
775 Dual-Core 45nm Processor
memory---Kingston's hyperX (4) GB of RAM. (although XP will only
recognize and show 3 GB, Asus claims that all four will be used)
Hard drive---One 500 GB SATA Western Digital hard drive.
MSI R4830-T2D512 Radeon HD4830 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 video card
DVD/CD drives---my old internal LG and my old USB.
I plan on installing my old U.S. Robotics modem so I still have fax
capability.
Right now I I have done just a simple 1 Hard Drive install until I
can recover (financially). Then I will set up RAID, which version I
set up will be decided when I learn more about it.
Right now it's all put together and checks out okay but I'm waiting
(it comes in Thursday) for a full version of Windows XP with SP3 and I
should be good ago (all I had were upgrades all the way back to
Windows 95.
To all the folks here that help me, thank you!
Albert
later, you should
1) Set the port for that SATA drive to "RAID" in the BIOS.
2) When you install WinXP, you should press F6 and offer a RAID
driver for the Intel Southbridge. The motherboard CD may have a
"MakeDisk" utility, for preparing a driver floppy diskette.
3) The system can use the RAID driver, when only one drive is present.
When you want to try a second drive, go to the Intel web site and
read up on the "Migration" options supported by the Intel driver.
I already have a floppy made up with the RAID drivers and because the
motherboard does not have a flop connection the users guide has a
workaround where when you make up the floppy with the RAID drivers you
also write it where it will recognize your USB floppy drive (which I
had to buy) .
The following is an example of an Intel RAID manual. This may not be
the latest one. It is the first one I found in a search. See,
for example, the migration table on page xxx.
http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/manual70.pdf
So, do you think I should go ahead and set it up that way before I get
the other hard drives?
By the way I'll be shutting this down tonight and I won't be able to
get back until late Friday. (Going to Colorado).
Albert
If you're serious about doing RAID on the Intel Southbridge, you
should set up the driver for it now, ahead of time. That is called
being "RAID Ready" by the Intel documentation.
If you don't have a floppy interface on the motherboard, you can
slipstream a driver into the WinXP software, using NLite tool from
nliteos.com . The output of NLite, is an ISO9660 file. A program
like Nero, knows how to read and parse the ISO9660 file, and prepare
a burned CD with it. You don't just "copy" the file to the CD.
The resulting CD ends up as a bootable Windows installer, but it
has about six more files than the original CD had. Those files are
the driver files for the Intel Southbridge and its RAID/AHCI option.
So you can add drivers to the Windows install CD. The install CD
has no check of the CD itself, so you can make and burn copies of
it if you want. Microsoft is more worried about the key on the
sticker that comes with the installer CD. That is what enforces
the license terms etc.
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part2.html
Naturally, you use your existing computer and its optical burner, to
prepare the installer CD with driver, for the new computer.
Test that the new CD you burn, is bootable on your current
computer. Then, actually use it on the new build.
Having a floppy interface on the motherboard, makes this
a bit easier.
Paul
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