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I dont know if anyone else has noticed this but if you disable the second S-ATA controller on the motherboard the HDD Activity light just stays on constantly... Enable the Second controller and it works... Intel have been aware of this since November but done NOTHING about it... What a suprise... :rolleyes:

Anyone know of a workaround or a modded bios?
 
someone said on the forum last week that there was a bios update to sort it comming out this week . i think its just the light and not the h/d on all the time

cheers
 
Yeah i found something on another forum that says it was supposed to be out on the 8th of this month... It is just the light but a bit of a pain to send a customer a machine that either a) has the secondary controller enabled that gives error messages and causes the machine to boot up slower or b) not have any hard disk activity led.
 
No fix yet. But if you enable the marvel raid in the bios, the hd led will work correctly. Unfortunately it slows your bootup as it tries to detect raid devices.
 
Does this help?

Finally is the hdd led issue fixed.
BIOS Version 2507
About This BIOS:
 January 23, 2007
 BX97520J.86A.2507.2007.0123.0952
 SATA RAID info:
 Intel(R) RAID for SATA - v5.6.2.1002
 Marvell* 88SE6145 SATA BIOS – v1.1.0.34
 PXE UNDI: Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.28
 PXE Base Code: Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.42
 Intel® Active Management Technology info:
 Intel® AMT BX Firmware: v1.2.3
New Fixes/Features:
 Fixed issue where ECC Mode was not properly displayed when
Performance Memory Profiles set to Manual in BIOS Setup.
 Added workaround for HDD LED always being lit when Secondary SATA
Controller is disabled in BIOS Setup.
 Fixed boot order for add-in SCSI controller.
 Added support for certain SAS controller.
 IRQ Fix for USB Interrupts.
 Fixed failures seen with Vista* DTM BitLocker Drive Encryption
BIOS Interface Logo Test.
 Fixed issue where Microsoft* Vista BitLocker System Check would
not pass.
 Fixed issue where system would not recognize CTRL+ALT+DEL key
sequence from boot cycling machine.
 Fixed failures with the TCG ACPI Event Log when running the Vista
DTM TCG TPM BIOS Interface Test.
 Fixed issue where system hangs when trying to load FreeDOS*
bootable CD from a USB CD drive.
 Fixed ACPI failures when running the Vista DTM TCG TPM Integration
Test.
 
YEY... It sorts the HDD Activity out... But then causes a BSOD when installing Microsoft Windows XP Pro x64. The error is PFN_LIST_CORRUPT... I have contacted Intel on this matter. It also does it with bios version 2431 and the HDD LED Activity is not fixed in that. I can back off the bios to 2330 and it works fine.
 
I have done a little more investigating and it appears to be some sort of 64Bit Fault.

If i use BIOS 2330 i can install XP Professional 32Bit, XP Professional x64 and Vista Business 64Bit But the HDD Activity LED does not work (Stays on constantly) if the Marvell controller is disabled.

If i use BIOS 2431 i can install XP Professional 32Bit with no problems but if i try either XP Professional x64 and Vista Business 64Bit I get a BSOD on both occasions either right after i install the RAID/AHCI drivers or windows installs the IDE driver it halts. The HDD Activity LED Still Does not work.

If i use BIOS 2507 It exhibits the same problems as 2431 but the HDD LED Activity actually works...

UPDATE.. And on even further investigation... It apears as if its a problem with the QX6700's. If i disable Core multiplexing in the BIOS everything works ok...

UPDATE2.. If you disable Core Multiplexing in the BIOS then it actually works.

:(
 
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i have gone back to 2330 2507 wouldnt allow me to over clock at all :(

so hdd light is perma on.


this is with a 6300 and 4gb of g-skill 6400hz
 
We are waiting to here back from Intel. Another customer of our distributer has has exactlly the same fault but as no-one else had reported it till i did they just dismissed it... :rolleyes:
 
I have gone back to 2333, it seems to allow me to overclock a little more....also if I use the most recent BIOS my keyboard stops working after maybe 5 minutes....

Anyone else had this?
 
surge said:
You need to disable the "watchdog", which is enabled by default in 2507, in the service menu

see

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1976627&postcount=1441

:)
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im new to this mobo mate, where abouts is the watchdog, or whats it called?

i know how to get into the service boot, moving the jumper on the cmos, i disable c1e to help with the o/c but is watchdog called watchdog lol first time i have heard of it.

Cheers
 
Datamonkey said:
im new to this mobo mate, where abouts is the watchdog, or whats it called?

i know how to get into the service boot, moving the jumper on the cmos, i disable c1e to help with the o/c but is watchdog called watchdog lol first time i have heard of it.

Cheers
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its in the normal bios page
 
so is it called watchdog then?

cheers lol cant look right now at work, but will flash and try again tonite, after i have made a through note of all the settings i have in place at the moment.
 
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