X58A UD3R DMI Data pool

[Dark Mantis]

Yes please do and if you need any more in depth help with the RAID there are a couple of people on the forum here that know a lot more than me about it.

[Trinitrotoluene]

Some extra confirmation about the stuff you mentioned from one or more of those people is welcome. Could you point them to this topic and get them to also answer the question below? Or tell me how to get in touch with them, either way is fine with me

So again in short, the question is whether or not my raid 0 array that has been created on current X58A UD3R board will work again on a totally NEW X58A UD3R board. Also whether or not actual bios versions (differences) influence this. And confirmation/explenation on the steps I need to take in order to get it working.

 
I thank you once again!

[Dark Mantis]

The best person to talk to would be F5BJR (Pierre) or PeterUK but I haven't seen him for a while. I will PM Pierre and see if he can have a look at your thread.

[F5BJR]

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For RAID ... if you use same chipset after you have no problem

Exemples :

I use a long time a RAID 10 with 4 * 500Go with my old ASUS P5E WS PRO ( ICHxx chipset )

Before i have placed a paper stick with a number on each disk (  1 for disk1 --> connector SATA1 , 2 for disk2 --> connector SATA2 .... )

I connect after to my new GA-X58A-UD5 in good place SATA1 ,SATA2, ... and in BIOS ICHxx in RAID mode ...

and no problem with my new motherboard , all datas are allways ok ...

Pierre

* also because my Windows is compatible for serial number .. i have only started in safe mode with my new motherboard , i have uninstalled the old drivers SOUND ...

I reboot , i install new drivers and my OS is always OK as with my old ASUS motherboard

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

Both of you, thanks a lot! There should be no trouble then, though I'm not sure about which drive was in which sata port. I do know I used first and second port though. If I mix the drives up from their original slot, is that going to cause corruption or anything?

[Trinitrotoluene]

Bumping if you don't mind 

[Trinitrotoluene]

Right now I can tell you guys that the webshop ran into the same memory errors as I did. They can't yet say whether it's down to just the ram, cpu, motherboard or a combination. But anyway, the memory part looks good, as funny as that may sound. The only thing is, if the memory itself is broken, there will probably some warrenty problem as I've received this third kit from OCZ RMA, not the webshop. But that's of later concern.

They haven't yet heard any coilwhine on the motherboard. Which is strange! I've told them that maybe my raid0 setup might be related to the coilwhine, advising them to test it with raid0 (you never know, right). And I told them that, if I remember correctly, I started hearing the coilwhine when I removed one of four hearddrives (standalone drive). Perhaps there's some sort of weird HDD load relation.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes the coil whine is normally related to the loading that is put on the board also it is often only when a certain combination of PSU and board is put together with maybe other components. The thing is the coils whine can be fixed now with a hardware fix and /or a BIOS update.

[Trinitrotoluene]

What would be the next step to take in case the shop hasn't found any coilwhine? I've already pressed them to use the same model PSU I've used (HX850), because so far they still have not heard a thing so that doesn't look good.

I thought this coilwhine thing was so obviously there and in my case the best thing to do was to ship it back to the shop instead of Gigabyte, as I also had these ram related problems. Two birds with one stone deal. And now they can't hear a thing?! Sure they might not have the HX850 in stock and asked me to ship my own HX850 to them. But that means I will have to pay shipment costs AGAIN. Ridiculous. They should have at least ONE psu in stock, other than the two I've used, with which they can reproduce coilwhine, right?

Good news is that they will soon be finished with testing and have a final conclusion. But I'd like to be properly armed in case they got some bad news.

[Dark Mantis]

I understand your plight but I don't know what I can say to help to be honest. Hopefully they will have heard the noise and fixed it (or at least contacted Gigabyte to find out what the fix is).  I think you will just have to wait and see what they say for now.

[Trinitrotoluene]

Right, I understand! Apoligize for going ahead of things.

Webshops' verdict is out: OCZ3P1333LV6GK is NOT compatible with GA-X58A UD3R 2.0 even though it IS on the QVL! And that's after receiving TWO confirmed broken kits. The third kit was tested on several other motherboards, in which it worked fine.
As for the motherboard, they could not hear any coilwhine, even though the whole setup was tested extensively. But at the same time, they also did not run into any other (extra) problems with it. But quite frankly, the coilwhine is not the biggest problem right now as the memory part turned out... good;

The webshop will swap the OCZ memory for a different kit, they suggested KHX1600C8D3K3/6GX. Which is not on the QVL, but if it has been tested by the shop and found 100% working, it doesn't matter (have contacted them about this, awaiting answer). As second option, I could also go for TR3X6G1600C8 which is on the Corsair compatibility list for this board. This whole deal is very kind of them, because this third kit was not purchased from them, but from OCZ RMA strictly speaking. So they aren't even obliged to take back the OCZ kit and have it swapped for me without extra costs, but they did so anyway! They managed to work out a deal with OCZ, for which both parties deserve and got my thanks.

About the coilwhine again, I will ask the shop for a summary on how they have tried to reproduce it and with which hardware. PSU, RAM, CPU, GPU, voltages, HDDs and whatever. I'd like to know it all. It doesn't feel quite right that they haven't heard anything. Not that I distrust them, but it was so easy to reproduce back at home. Any thoughts on this are still welcome, though by now everything has probably already been said.



And I have kindly asked OCZ and Gigabyte to retest this kit on this specific board

[Dark Mantis]

Well... good news there then and a good karma for the shop for a change. It is nice to hear a positive report about a retailer that has gone the extra mile.

The problem with the coil whine is that it only happens when specific components are used together and may not even make the same noise if similar units are used. I think it is probably down to manufacturing tollerances.

Personally I would go for the Corsair memory as long as they have tested it in the board but I guess thast it doesn't really matter as long as it works.

[Trinitrotoluene]

KHX1600C8D3K3/6GX has found to be compatible and fully working by the webshop. Everything will be shipped back to me today. So that should get rid of all the BSOD drama and what not. Hopefully I won't have any trouble getting the RAID0 array working again. Didn't mark the drives and ports, but I think I remember the order.

Should I connect my DVD drive to the blue ports, instead of the white (intel controller) ones? Because remember, I'm using XHD raid bios setting on the intel controller for my two harddrives. And I've read on this forum that the DVD drive doesn't like this... ? I'm asking because I've had BSOD's mentioning iastor.sys. So that makes you wonder...


Obviously it might be just a matter of testing, but perhaps you know the answer

[Dark Mantis]

Glad to hear that the memory fiasco has been sorted out and full marks to the retailer for their helpfullness.
I think you should name them really as we are quick enough to shout when things go the other way.

As for the optical drive it is always better if possible to use a different controller set to IDE. It won't always make a difference but sometimes the DVD drives can play up otherwise.

[Trinitrotoluene]

The webshop is www.salland.eu 

So I guess it's better to just hook the DVD drive up to a blue Marvell controlled port straight away! I take it any required settings are probably easy enough to follow up on and I don't see any extra drivers/software for Marvell I need to install (?) so that's clear. I do remember trying to install MoH, shining new disc, and halfway through installation, the drive had trouble reading a file.