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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Revengeofbob on April 17, 2011, 08:45:55 pm

Title: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Revengeofbob on April 17, 2011, 08:45:55 pm

Setup:
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P55A-UD4P Rev.2 (F14 BIOS)
i5 760 - Stock speeds/voltage [pi95 tested for 9 hours]
8GB Ram (2 x 4GB Kingston) - Stock speeds/timings/voltage  [Memtested for 13 hours]
Corsair 750w
Nvidia 9800GT
Samsung 470 128GB SSD x2
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Additional Information:

  Motherboard/RAM/CPU/PSU/GPU/etc are all part of my current build. The only thing changing is that I am replacing my boot drive (WD 1TB)  with the RAID0 SSDs.  Before installing Windows 7 I disconnect my 1TB boot drive, so that it won't interfer in any way.



Issue:

   The two SSDs are in RAID0 in slots SATA2_0 and SATA2_1 (First two ports of the Intel SATA2 ports).  Whenever I try to install Windows 7 from CD or USB stick I receive a BSOD 0x124 (Hardware Error) during the "copying files" stage.

   I've tried loading the Intel RAID drivers from a USB stick and tried using the drivers off the Gigabyte motherboard disk. Neither have any affect.

   I can install Windows 7 on each individually (when I take them out of RAID0 mode), so I know the USB stick and DVD are not to blaim. I was also able to run benchmarks to make sure the disks can be read/written to without errors/crashes.

  What am I missing? Do I need to format the drives in a particular manner for them to allow Windows 7 to be installed?  Should I try different ports? Any other tests I should run on my hardware?

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Revengeofbob on April 17, 2011, 08:51:05 pm

Just for clarification:

I attempted using these drivers http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19601&lang=eng&OSVersion=Windows%207%2C%2064-bit*&DownloadType=Drivers

And the drivers on the motherboard disk  \BootDrv\iRST\64Bit

If these are incorrect please assist.


Thank you for any assitance you can provide, I really would love to get these things running.

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 17, 2011, 09:01:13 pm

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

The files you are using are correct as far as I can see. The BSOD stop code 0x124  normally relates to th QPI/Vtt voltage being incorrect. It might be to high or more probably too low. Try tweaking it a touch.

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Revengeofbob on April 18, 2011, 01:18:00 am

What would  you suggest for the highest/lowest values to test for QPI/Vtt voltages?

I had it on [Auto] with the normal value reporting 1.1v

I just set it manually to 1.21v (Highest 'white' colored option) and it still returned the 0x124.

Are there any other voltages that I should tweak? Right now everything is on [Auto] besides the QPI/Vtt.

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Lsdmeasap on April 18, 2011, 07:09:55 am

Try 1.225-1.34, if that doesn't help then remove one set of memory for now so you can at least get your operating system installed.

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 18, 2011, 07:20:40 am

Yes do as Lsdmeasap advises and don't worry about trying to keep the numbers in the white area. It is still safe. ;)

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Revengeofbob on April 18, 2011, 11:32:17 pm

That seems to have done the trick.

I am currently testing it out, running some Prime95s, 3dMarks, etc to make sure everything is stable.

Thank both of you for the help.

Title: Re: P55A-UD4P RAID0 Installion Issues
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 19, 2011, 07:08:49 am

You are very welcome buddy. ;)