A while ago I installed an Adaptec 1430sa 4 port raid controller in my gaming system which had to occupy the 2nd 16x pcie slot (its a x4 card and my p5k premium board only has a x1 and 2 no. x16 pcie slots so it had to go in the remaining x16 slot)
The controller does a fantastic job of maintaining an array of four raptor drives, driver compatibility is great in vista 64 and overall the raid setup runs super fast and reliable in games and pretty much everything else, Im really very happy with it but....
The only issue I have is any gfx monitoring/tweaking program I try to run manages to completely bring my pc to its feet! If I load GPU-Z the pc will freeze and then bluescreen, same with Riva Tuner
Im fairly certain it has something to do with the raid card being in the second pcie x16 slot, maybe these gfx programs try and read the bios/hardware in the second slot and inadvertently crash the whole system. Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue, perhaps there is something simple like changing jumpers or a setting.
As I say system stability is great, prime and game stable. I just have no method of monitoring my GFX card or overclocking because all the gfx tools i use crash my system.
Also its worth noting it does exactly the same in my current windows 7 beta install as well as vista.
If only the onboard j-micron raid controller actually worked, I would have never needed to go down this route
Cheers
Hesky
The controller does a fantastic job of maintaining an array of four raptor drives, driver compatibility is great in vista 64 and overall the raid setup runs super fast and reliable in games and pretty much everything else, Im really very happy with it but....
The only issue I have is any gfx monitoring/tweaking program I try to run manages to completely bring my pc to its feet! If I load GPU-Z the pc will freeze and then bluescreen, same with Riva Tuner
Im fairly certain it has something to do with the raid card being in the second pcie x16 slot, maybe these gfx programs try and read the bios/hardware in the second slot and inadvertently crash the whole system. Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue, perhaps there is something simple like changing jumpers or a setting.
As I say system stability is great, prime and game stable. I just have no method of monitoring my GFX card or overclocking because all the gfx tools i use crash my system.
Also its worth noting it does exactly the same in my current windows 7 beta install as well as vista.
If only the onboard j-micron raid controller actually worked, I would have never needed to go down this route
Cheers
Hesky
