965P-DS4 FUBAR?

IamMed · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:49

First of all:
Did a reinstall other week and flashed my board to the F10 bios, all was well for about a week then all of a sudden PC would randomly restart, sometimes would run in windows for 40mins or so and other times it would fail to post.

Now every time I try to boot I get BIOS checksum error and it tries to copy the backup bios to main and says failed to copy.

Theres nothing I can think todo to remedy it and I cant see a bios chip that can be removed and replaced so my question is, is there anything that can be done or is it knackered?

Secondly:
I have 2 RAID 0 configurations setup on, 1 on the gigabyte controller which is my windows and games drive which I'm not fussed about losing but I have 2 x 320gb drives as storage on the Intel ICH8 chipset, is it possible to install these into another machine to reclaim data?

I have a friend with a P35 DQ6 with the ICH9 chipset, would that be compatible? If not would another 965 DS4 allow me to retrieve my data or is all lost?

Cob · 23 Mar 2008 at 16:25

Have you tried booting it with just one stick of memory.

And yeah you should be fine running both RAID's on the DQ6.

IamMed · 23 Mar 2008 at 16:53

Will give it a try now, would be strange though, as I said it was working fine for awhile after the flash :confused:

IamMed · 23 Mar 2008 at 17:08

Nope, still says failed to copy.

WJA96 · 24 Mar 2008 at 09:18

I've just tried a P965 RAID array on my P35-DQ6 and it worked fine as they are both ICH9R.

IAmATeaf · 24 Mar 2008 at 17:56

Have you tried going back to your previous BIOS?

IamMed · 24 Mar 2008 at 20:09

Can't dont get any chance to, it automatically tries to restore backup bios and fails, I have no way of intervening at any point between power on and it failing.

WJA96 said:
I've just tried a P965 RAID array on my P35-DQ6 and it worked fine as they are both ICH9R.

That's good to know thanks

(Though the 965-DS4 I have is ICH8 I thought it may be compatible)

Wilst · 25 Mar 2008 at 15:58

If i remember correctly from what i read in the manual, which is at least a year ago. The Qaud bios feature means that if the 2 bios's on the board become corrupted which it sounds like has happened to you then it can recover the bios from one on the HD and failing it that it can boot the bios from a recovery cd. That is all from memory though so don't take it as truth.

With regard to the raid array you best bet is a board with the same controller and that should work although some people have sucsess moving across controllers, posting in the hardrive section would get you the best advice.