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hi Chriscatt do you no if the SI 3132 chip runs of one the pcie lanes coming of the NB or will it go through ULI 1575 SB.chriscatt said:
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Hi, I doubt whether it goes thro the ULi as the Sill has it's own controller chip. My guess is that it will run through the PCI bus....
ChrisC
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shamus21 said:
hi there i don't actually have a pci sound card i could use, im going to reflash the board a few times today and see if it helps, what a problem riddled board
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after furthur testing it seems that the latest Uli 2.20 can cause hdd hangs and pauses in games such as bf2 etc this should be addresed by nvidia as i can 100% confirm that this is the driver that was causing some of my problems, this problem only occurs when loading game data from the hdd could it be that its prehaps conflicting with the default Microsoft SCSI/RAID Host Controller driver or is this driver for a seperate thing? anyway for now ive uninstalled it out my system as it seems to be fine without it chris do you play bf2?
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Hi, no I don't but I've played just about every other game with no problems. It is rather stange that bf2 is the only game to be affected, is there a demo that I could try?
Edit: I'm also wondering if it is related to having a x2 CPU, which I haven't....
ChrisC
Edit: I'm also wondering if it is related to having a x2 CPU, which I haven't....
ChrisC
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squiffy said:
do you have the default microsoft raid controller installed aswell? or just the uli and sil driver's this could have been my problem but i can 100% confirm it caused the stuttering very odd indeed
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Hi, are you running your boot drive from the sill controller. If you are I'd suggest you change it to the ULi and see what happens, maybe worth a try....
ChrisC
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chriscatt said:
no im running my boot drive from the uli, this is what my device manager looks like without the uli driver installed ;
notice the SCSI/RAID Host Controller, that remains installed when i install the Uli drivers is there a chance it could be conflicting and should this driver be removed when the Uli driver is installed?
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Hi, according to that all you have is the Sill drivers installed, not the ULi ones. If you had it would state 'ULi Sata/Raid Controller M1575/Mi697). If you are you sure you are using the ULi connectors? There are four of them down to the bottom right hand side of the motherboard.
If you are, and running in emulated pata mode, then it might be ok to remove both of those items, you will not need the ULi raid drivers anyway. I cannot stress enough that you must make backups incase it all goes awry, it maybe that it will be ok after removing the Sill drivers, however it may not cure your issues as you aren't using any ULi drivers, it isn't required for pata mode, or, it might just trash your system requiring either a repair or a fresh install....
When you changed the motherboard did you perform a fresh install anyway?
ChrisC
If you are, and running in emulated pata mode, then it might be ok to remove both of those items, you will not need the ULi raid drivers anyway. I cannot stress enough that you must make backups incase it all goes awry, it maybe that it will be ok after removing the Sill drivers, however it may not cure your issues as you aren't using any ULi drivers, it isn't required for pata mode, or, it might just trash your system requiring either a repair or a fresh install....
When you changed the motherboard did you perform a fresh install anyway?
ChrisC
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chriscatt said:
chris i think you have got totally confused here, i 100% have my hdd's plugged into the Uli, im not running emulated pata and it works just fine without the Uli drivers ive had the motherboard for ages and have done numerous installs with it, what i mean is windows xp has a built in sata/raid controller driver, this was installed at the same time as the Uli driver which might have been causing a conflict, i also noticed asus don't even have the Uli drivers listed on there website which seemed odd to me prehaps asus know they can cause conflicts in some systems, anyway all i know is everything seems ok now.
squiffy said:Anyone have empty area in Control Panel Sata controller?
I get the same in that dialogue box, nothing. Don't know if it's related but in the bios, my harddrive is listed as third IDE master?
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chris do you know when another bios is expected?. 
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Hi, I think that the ULi drivers came from the F6 point of installing XP, where you load from a floppy, as far as I'm aware there are no default MS drivers integrated with XP. Sorry for the confusion, if all is ok now then fine....
Just for the record mine shows this
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No idea about a new bios, give it a month or two maybe but unless there are going to be any new CPU's for a 939 board, which is a nono, then it is probably unlikely to happen.....
ChrisC
Just for the record mine shows this
No idea about a new bios, give it a month or two maybe but unless there are going to be any new CPU's for a 939 board, which is a nono, then it is probably unlikely to happen.....
ChrisC
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chriscatt said:Hi, I think that the ULi drivers came from the F6 point of installing XP, where you load from a floppy, as far as I'm aware there are no default MS drivers integrated with XP. Sorry for the confusion, if all is ok now then fine....
Just for the record mine shows this
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ChrisC
hmm if you compare that to mine windows seems to have installed its own SATA/RAID controller driver, do you see what i mean?
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Hi, blimey you're a bit quick 
As I said a F6 install might transmit through, you said you installed the 220's, I'm installing them upon installing XP as do so many....
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As I said a F6 install might transmit through, you said you installed the 220's, I'm installing them upon installing XP as do so many....
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Squiffy, what's the version number and driver date of your ULi's?
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