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Startup issues 990FX troubleshooting

vanakka — 2013-05-23T01:25:56 -05.00

Graphics Card

ASUS HD7850-DC2-2GD5 Radeon HD 7850

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History

revision 13.4

Operating System

Windows 7 64x

Issue Details
This computer is home built and about 1 year old. I am mainly asking for advice on troubleshooting, but a diagnosis would be great. When I start up the computer roughly 70% of the time it will turn on and display the message with the information about input devices that it has detected. When the issue happensnothing is detected, my monitor goes black and I am able to turn off my computer by holding the power button. The problem will repeat itself anywhere from 1 to 5 times before working. When it works I detect no other issues.

I have tried switching my operating system to a completely new drive, I have tried changing the SATA cables, and changing which port they are plugged into.

Motherboard or System Make & Model

ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional

Power Supply

Corsait GS600 (600w)

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used
LG 22' LCD Monitor connected with a DVI-D cable

Applications and Games
N/A

CPU Details

AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz

Motherboard BIOS Version
2.02.1205

System Memory Type & Amount

G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM

Additional Hardware
240 Sandisk Extreme GB SSD being used as boot drive, 500gb HDD

Additional Details
Recently reinstalled windows on a new drive. Problem existed before and continued after the reinstallation.

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon-[on ap standa]

onapthanh — 2013-05-20T19:58:44 -05.00

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Features:

A Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter

There’s only one force powerful enough to stop an army of rampaging killer cyborgs, mutated scientists, metal sharks and vicious Blood Dragons that shoot lasers from their eyes – that force is you

AMD A60M chipset APU support

SevenOneArtists — 2013-05-20T18:11:26 -05.00

does the AMD A60M chipset support the new A10-5750M Trinity based APUs?

currently have A6-3420M running smoothly on AMD A60M chipset.

rAIDxPERT 500 eRROR

ecc — 2013-05-18T01:44:25 -05.00

Need a wee bit of help, I've never come across this problem before.--------------------------------------HTTP ERROR: 500Java heap spaceRequestURI=/amd/login.jspCaused by:java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Unknown Source) at java.lang.String.(Unknown Source) at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Unknown Source) at java.util.Properties.load0(Unknown Source) at java.util.Properties.load(Unknown Source) at com.promise.shasta.javabean.LocalizationBean.getMessageByLang(LocalizationBean.java:163) at com.promise.shasta.javabean.UserBean.getMessage(UserBean.java:53) at org.apache.jsp.login_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.login_jsp:271) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:93) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:373) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:470) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:364) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:828) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380) at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228) at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:450) Powered by Jetty://-----------------------------------------any idea why I am getting this error. Like I said never had this problem with win 7 or win 8systemM5a97win 8 64raid drivers up to dateraidxpert upto date

rAIDxPERT 500 eRROR

ecc — 2013-05-18T01:44:25 -05.00

AMD 785G chipset

Poyoarvolk — 2013-05-02T19:02:07 -05.00

I was wondering if this chipset enables Crossfire (chipset includes hd 4200) and if so do I just get any other crossfire enabled graphics card that can fit the watt intake and put it in the PCIe slot or how do I install it? I am looking to buy a HIS radeon 4770 to either replace or go along with my Radeon hs 4200 that came with the computer.

Graphics Card

ATI Radeon HD 4200

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History

i had a problem opening catalyst so i installed it again and now it won't open so i'm unable to give this information, sorry

Operating System

Windows 7 64 bit

Motherboard or System Make & Model

AMD 785G Chipset, Inspiron 570

Power Supply

300w

CPU Details

AMD Athlon II x2 250

Motherboard BIOS Version

don't know, computer loads automatically

Additional Hardware

4 PCIe slots

Driver for 690G Windows 7 (SM Bus Driver)

Blebekblebek — 2013-04-26T11:36:00 -05.00

My old system is AMD 4050e with Biostar TA690G

recently just purchased 3TB HDD, and decide to use this to replace my old NAS (AMD Sempron 2800+)

after dealing with various trouble shoting, I just give up.

Windows 7 is the only solution to recognize fully capacity with my new HDD.

Biostar website didn't provide (at least) proper driver for this motherboard.

their driver version is very old, and not working properly.

I've tried to select everything properly from driver selection, but the driver installation only have 2 option (for IGP Driver and Catalyst)

Where can I download driver for 690G Chipset driver?
Thank you.

raid 5 question

mbjbdc — 2013-04-24T13:40:18 -05.00

when switching from write through to write back can that be done from raid expert?i see a option but unable to change setting.

AMD AHCI Driver can't support IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT

Rossi.Chen — 2013-04-24T02:05:51 -05.00

When I use IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT this API in Win7 default AHCI driver

I can issue smart command read data and smart read/write log command to SATA device

When I install AMD driver, I found my AP can’t order smart command read to SATA device

I have use Bus Hound to try order ATA command, but it still can’t success!

Do you have any idea can help me to pass order command!

CPU

AMD phenom 2 565 BE

Graphics Card
Sapphire HD5770 1GB Vapor-X

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
13.1 current, and tested all before relased

Operating System
Windows 7 SP1.

Issue Details
AMD AHCI DRIVER BSOD & Boot loop

Motherboard or System Make & Model
-Gigabyte MA790X-UDP3

Power Supply
Corsair 650 TX

Thanks!

RaidXpert for Linux

sLOVEnec — 2013-04-22T02:56:07 -05.00

Hello!

I am trying to use AMD RAID 1 in Ubuntu 12.04. I am able to create RAID 1 and install the system to it with no problem. I tested the drives and they are indeed synced. However the problem arrives when I tested the situation of exchanging a failed drive. Within Ubuntu I cannot get the drives to sync back. Windows users do it within RaidXpert software with ease, however there is no Linux version to be found. The thing is, manual describes the installation for Linux, stating that the software is on CD, which indicates that there should be one. Is there any way to download this software, since I cannot find it on my software CD (I am using a HP microserver H36L, which uses AMD chipset).

AHCI Drivers for XP

Nobody Important — 2013-04-12T12:55:21 -05.00

Navigating to the AMD website and selecting:

Find a Driver -> Motherboard / Chipset -> AMD 7-Series Chipsets -> All 7-Series Chipsets -> Windows XP 32-Bit

Leads to this page where the XP Tab lists 'AMD Chipset Drivers' and 'AMD Raid Drivers'

Both are the same size, revision number, and release date, but they do not have the same contents: The 'AMD Chipset Drivers' package contains "amd_sata.sys" nested in "\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AHCI_svr\XP\" while the 'AMD Raid Drivers' contains "ahcix86.sys" in the "\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\RAID\XP\" folder.

amd_sata.sys comes with a ReadMe.rtf, which says it is for Windows Server 2003 & 2008 with no mention of XP aside from its presence in the "\XP\" folder, and the XP Tab on the Website. Attempting to inject this driver during Windows XP installation with an F6 Floppy or via nLite will fail with either a "cannot find amd_sata.sys" or 'No device' error, depending on if nLite imports in textmode. ahcix86.sys on the other hand, will slipstream and\or install just fine, but cannot access S.M.A.R.T.

This isn't ideal, especially on a new drive where it is useful to ensure working order. It also leads to a number of questions:

Is the amd_sata.sys package actually confirmed to be working for Windows XP, or is this an error?
Is there any meaningful difference between ahcix86.sys and amd_sata.sys in practice? I'm under the impression that ahcix86.sys can't access S.M.A.R.T. because it's a raid driver - or inversely, that amd_sata.sys can access S.M.A.R.T. and with similar performance in a non-raid setup.
If it is intended for use with XP, how are you supposed to install it? You need the driver to detect the drive you're installing the driver on, and while it seems to come with a windows installer, you need the driver to install windows before you can install the driver in windows. Neither the N-Lite nor the F6 Floppy method seem to work, and killing my infant grandfather didn't help either.
If windows has already been installed using ahcix86.sys, is it possible to switch to amd_sata.sys (presumably via the installer) without repercussions? I could foresee significant complications if it fails to boot after installing amd_sata.sys the way it does before install, and then can't roll back the driver because it can't detect the drive at all.

(For what it's worth, relevant tech-specs include: ASRock M3A770DE & Jetway X-Blue 78GA3 Motherboards (AMD 770\780 Chipsets) with OCZ Vertex II SSDs. ..and yes, bios is set to ACHI.)

Radeon HD 5800 Series issues

Schlonor — 2013-04-11T15:31:23 -05.00

Graphics Card

ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series / No overlocking

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History

8.982.0.0 No idea about history

Operating System

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)

Issue Details

The display gets false colours (looks like the rainbow level in Mario Kart) and the horizontal scaling does not match ( I can drag Windows out of the right border and they are not displayed anymore) after Catalyst Center v13.1 and its driver are installed.

Motherboard

ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO // BIOS Date: 07/23/10 17:10:34 Ver: 21.0

Power Supply

No idea

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used

Single display: acer H234H over HDMI

Applications and Games

Windows 7.... the whole system is affected

CPU Details

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz

Motherboard BIOS Version

BIOS Date: 07/23/10 17:10:34 Ver: 21.0

System Memory Type & Amount

8192MB RAM

Additional Hardware

Raid HD; LG Supermulti BLU BH10; 2 additional fans

Additional Details

Bitdefender keeps PC malware free... I hope so

Steamroller and AMD Chipsets AM3+ 990FX

lavrol — 2013-04-09T06:17:32 -05.00

Whether it will be supported Steamroller on AMD Chipsets AM3+ 990FX ?

AMD 990 bios setting

MyMedia59 — 2013-04-01T19:23:09 -05.00

I am switching to an 990 chipset board

The bios shows 2x boost settings (yellow in image below)

What exactly is the difference - enable both?

TIA

AMD Update causing hard drive to blink every second

tyw7 — 2013-04-01T12:58:51 -05.00

I got an AMD Sata Update through Windows Update. That caused the hard drive light to blink every second. I did a system restore before the update. Issue goes away.

AMD SB850 RAID 5 drives lost

Gerard — 2013-03-20T19:17:48 -05.00

GA-870A-UD3 mit SB850 und RAID 5; RAID 5 lost 3 from 4 drives, now the RAID ist Off Line. Booting and select RAID Option i can see 1 drive in the RAID 5 and 3 drives are failed or disconnected. In View Drive Assigments i see the 3 drives as Single Disk.

I can't find any option to set RAID 5 online or similary options.

Do anyone know how to rescue the RAID 5 ?

The only way seems to delete the Raid and recreate it. By this way i fear my data are lost !

Can you help me ?

SB\USB 3.0 Controller not recognized for Samsung Laptop

cbass8oz — 2013-03-20T16:08:41 -05.00

I am trying to help out a friend, he purchased a Samsung NP355E5C-A01US AMD chipset, that came with Win8 x64. He had someone do a fresh install of Win7 x64 because a piece of software he needed was not compatible with Win8. Windows recognizes everything except for 3.0 Controllers. I have spoke with samsung tech to no end. Because it came with win8 they wont lift a finger.. do these drivers exsist in some dark hole somewhere.. Please help!!

AMD SB/USB 3.0 Drivers do not install properly in Windows Home Server 2011, how to report bug?

johndoe14914094 — 2013-03-19T00:48:19 -05.00

Installing the AMD southbridge drivers do not install propertly in WHS2011. Normally you can install Windows 7 drivers in WHS2011 but the southbridge/USB 3.0 installation software does not seem to detect the hardware properly in WHS2011. I was able to get the drivers completely installed and working by following the steps outlined here: http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/topic/27006-amd-usb-30-drivers/ in post #8.

It seems to be that all the drivers work correctly in WHS2011 but the installer is not smart enough to install them in this OS. I have read that others have the same issue under WHS 2011 and AMD southbridge/USB 3.0 drivers. Is there a way for me to complete a bug report to get AMD's attention? Thank you.

Why amd chipsets are so hot ?

mutimbo-mutombo — 2013-03-15T21:45:48 -05.00

A month ago I have bought Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0 . NB 970 chipset was hot as hell.

1 week ago I bought new motherboard Asus Sabertooth 990FX . 990 chipset is like stove too .

I was building my first amd PC . And that was my mistake . Heating system. Not computer .

BTW , operating temperature for the ninth series chipsets is ...?

My hell steamshop : CPU amd 6300 . Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0 and now Asus Sabertooth 990FX , 1 GPU Radeon HD7850 ( no overclock , newest BIOS and all drivers

FTSh

USB port hardware on laptop not being detected

glentall — 2013-03-15T20:21:24 -05.00

Something has happened and my device manager does not show any USB devices anymore. I think something happened to the device driver setup when I tried loading a USB driver for an old HP scanner. My USB devices worked just fine before but now the system acts as if it has no USB hardware in the system. I have an HP ProBook 6555b equipped with the AMD 880G chipset running Windows7 Enterprise (64bit). I've searched the AMD website multiple times and have done numerous Google searches. Essentially, I want a program that will restore the base 880G hardware device drivers but have not had any success yet. I'm trying to avoid a full re-install of the OS. Also, I have tried taking the hard disk out and putting it in an identical ProBook 6555b and the problem follows the hard disk (confirms to me that it is most probably a software issue). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

SB750 Windows 8 64bit driver

s8109csa — 2013-03-14T19:32:49 -05.00

Dear AMD.

I have an MSI 790GX-G65 motherboard with Phenom II820 and one SSD and 2 500GB Samsung HDD.

Everything worked well with Windows 8 until I figured out that I keep using my SSD for the system but I will use the 2 HDDs in Raid0 for games to load faster, etc.

Win8 unfortunately seems not using the SB750 well. Unfortunately in the downloaded chipset package the SB7xx has only Win7-64bit driver only. Win7-64bit in RAID working well but Win8 doesn't. Please provide the necessary drivers, thank You.

AMD HD7410M run with JavaFX

PofkaP — 2013-03-12T01:47:40 -05.00

Hi Community,

I'm not sure if this question is off-topic in this section, but I couldn't find anything better. So I'll just ask you here:

My PC has a AMD HD7410M Chipset which I want to run with JavaFX. My operation System is Linux (Ubuntu). Could someone tell me, if that is possible?
Best regards!

SB950 - TLER Support

Aravil — 2013-03-11T23:15:16 -05.00

Good Evening,

Does SB950 supports TLER function in disks ?

RAID 5 showing as single disks in Windows 8

andreg — 2013-03-07T18:31:43 -05.00

I'm having some trouble getting RAID 5 to work on a machine I recently upgraded with new disks.

After configuring my RAID setup during startup my RAID 0 system drives (2x Corsair SSDs) worked fine and Windows 8 64-bit was installed without any problems, but the RAID 5 array I created (3x WD 1TB) is showing as individual disks under "Disk Management" in Windows 8.

I tried using RaidXpert under Windows to re-create the array, but there RAID 5 doesn't even show as an option...

Has anyone got any ideas on what it takes to get this to work, or am I going to have to stick to the abysmal write speeds that "Windows Storage Spaces" have?

The motherboard I have is an Asus Crosshair IV Formula (AMD 890FX/SB850) and a Phenom II 1090T plus 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws-X. I have the latest drivers and software installed, plus upgraded to the latest BIOS version before OS installation.

Internal Drive showing as removable, anyway to fix?

matthelm — 2013-02-26T01:29:19 -05.00

I recently rebuilt my dad's TV recording system with a new ASUS A85X chipset. One of the internal drives (of 4) is showing as external, which means it's showing as removable in "safely remove hardware". The only link I can find is one that the registry entries don't show in my system.

Anyone know a way to fix this one drive? I did look in the device manager, and it's set True there, but should be False.

right chipset drivers?? Latest causes some gaming probs.

picdriver — 2013-02-25T13:38:30 -05.00

Afternoon folks...My mobo is an Asus M4a79xtd evo. The AMD chipset drivers originally installed were from the Asus website & date back to 2010...& have had no probs.

I found there were updated drivers on this site (2013) & installed them a few weeks ago.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx#2

(It say they are for the 700 series.) The install didn't seem to go too well...& said there were errors installing (or something along those lines)...& it took an age to open folders/move mouse etc until I rebooted.

Didn't realise till yesterday that bf3 mp was rubberbanding/jerking a lot/ far cry 3 jerky as hell because of the install...reinstalled the old drivers & everything back to normal.

They seem to be the right drivers for this board? (or am I wrong). Just like to keep things up to date if possible & can't understand why they had an adverse effect..would try again but don't want to go thru that massive slowdown after initial install...Any thoughts? TIA..Andy. (for now it's a case of if it aint broke..)

Win7 64 bit. (possible I downloaded from win 8 tab..dunno...but the files seem to be the same anyway)

phenom 965 be/geforce 670.

Linux RAID Drivers and Support for an AMD SB950 Chip?

haziz — 2013-02-24T17:08:55 -05.00

I have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2 motherboard which uses the AMD SB950 chipset to create a fakeRAID array (setup for RAID 5 in my case). It is recognized as a RAID array in Windows after install of the appropriate driver. It is not recognized as such by Linux and indeed I am afraid that it may be accidentally corrupted since some installs (Linux Mint 14) seem to try to mount them as individual drives. A separate install of Scientific Linux 6.3 (RHEL 6.3 clone) recognizes the drives as part of a RAID array and at least does not try to mount them, which at least protects them, though that also removes them from use.

I may wish to access the RAID array and use it within Linux. Will create a separate partition for Linux on it if I can figure out the Linux support for this chipset.

Any suggestions or ideas?

AMD raid how recover

kzsolt2 — 2013-02-22T09:41:58 -05.00

I have two problem with AMD raid.

1). How I rebuild array (e.g. raid 1) without booting the operating system (and starting raid expert)? In original Promise bios this function was implented, but the AMD bios has no that kind of function.

2). How I recover my data if the motherboard crashed? Looks like the AMD raid store the disk data in special format. Therefore possible recover only if the drive installed onto the same type of raid chip. If I connect it to standard SATA port, I see no valid data to copy or recover.

I have inherited an AMD chipset. It is IMPOSSIBLE to identify. [pictures]

griipen — 2013-02-21T14:43:13 -05.00

I received an AMD chipset from a friend, who had just bought a new PC.

Neither him nor me have any idea at all regarding which chipset it is, making it hard for me to compose a computer with it, due to the fact that I e.g. don't know which type of RAM it requires.

The things I can tell judging by the look of the card;

- It's AM3 socket.

- Built 2010.

- A text saying "PN 109-C09410-00B"

- A sticker with a bar code saying "00001A1AD88C"

I have googled almost every number readable on the chipset without any luck at all.

Here are some pictures, if someone would help me with this I'd be forever grateful!

785 chipset, support TRIM?

Gratton — 2013-02-13T14:40:45 -05.00

As the topic asks, does the 785 chipset support TRIM? Thinking of adding a SSD as my primary boot/OS drive, and wanted to make sure if TR:IM is supported or not in this particular chip.

ASRock M3A785GXH/128M motherboard, Win 7 64bit Home Premium

amd 770 -> amd 970

Vegan — 2013-02-10T18:06:00 -05.00

can anyone find a list of advantages in adopting the amd 970 chipset?

few extra PCIe lanes
UEFI
SATA 6 Gbps

Can the 970 keep up with a 4 drive SSD array fine? RAID0 seems obvious to perk up performance.

Cannot create VHDX on 3 Tb RAID1 Drive using Windows 8 Pro and AMD Motherboard

Theokrat — 2013-02-10T16:27:49 -05.00

I'm running Windows 8 Pro using an MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard. This motherboard has an AMD SB850 chipset.

I am using the latest BIOS and AMD RAID drivers. I have an SSD as the boot drive as MBR and am using two Seagate 3 Tb drives ST3000DM001 configured for RAID1 as GPT.

I found that I am unable to create a VHDX or VHD on the RAID1 drive. When I use the Disk Manager to try and create the VHDX I get the following error message.

Virtual Disk Manager

The sector size of the physical disk on which the virtual disk resides is not supported.

The problem seems to be that the sector size, bytes per sector in FSUTIL display, is 1024 rather than the older 512?

Several webpages seem to mention that this problem was fixed with Hyper-V Server 2012 and by implication this should also be fixed with Windows 8?

One article that mentioned the newer Advanced Format drives is this one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510009

I am able to use the RAID1 with Windows 8 for all other files, but not when trying to create a VHDX or VHD.

I found that if I took these same two Seagate 3 Tb drives and installed them on an Intel DQ77MK motherboard then I ended up with 512 sector size and was able to create a VHD on the 3 Tb RAID1 drive.

I tried these same two Seagate 3 Tb drives as RAID1 on another AMD motherboard, MSI A55M-P33 with an AMD A55 chipset, and this had the same problem as my original MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard.

Is this a design problem with the AMD RAID driver, i.e., not allowing me to get 512 sector size, and that's the reason I cannot get this to work? It seems odd that I can use these same physical drives as RAID1 on an Intel motherboard, but not on two AMD motherboards.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

P.S. I am not running Hyper-V on my Windows 8 Pro machine. I would not think that should be required to get the Disk Manager to create a VHDX

Here are several FSUTIL displays.

MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard configured as 3 Tb GPT RAID1 running Windows 8 Pro.

NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x2a965c67965c3613

NTFS Version : 3.1

LFS Version : 2.0

Number Sectors : 0x00000000ae9d73ff

Total Clusters : 0x000000002ba75cff

Free Clusters : 0x000000002ba655b3

Total Reserved : 0x00000000000027c0

Bytes Per Sector : 1024

Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096

Bytes Per Cluster : 4096

Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0

Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000040000

Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000

Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002

Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000c0000

Mft Zone End : 0x00000000000cc820

Resource Manager Identifier : EFD89220-727B-11E2-BEDC-6C626DAB51D9

MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard configured as individual 3 Tb GPT drives running Windows 8 Pro.

NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xf855002654ffe4f2

NTFS Version : 3.1

LFS Version : 2.0

Number Sectors : 0x000000015d4c97ff

Total Clusters : 0x000000002ba992ff

Free Clusters : 0x000000002ba88bae

Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000180

Bytes Per Sector : 512

Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096

Bytes Per Cluster : 4096

Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0

Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000040000

Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000

Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002

Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000c0000

Mft Zone End : 0x00000000000cc820

Resource Manager Identifier : 0257C210-7286-11E2-BEDD-6C626DAB51D9

Intel DQ77MK motherboard as 3 Tb GPT RAID1 using Windows Hyper-V Server 2012.

NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xa2f0f186f0f160c9

Version : 3.1

Number Sectors : 0x000000015d4bdfff

Total Clusters : 0x000000002ba97bff

Free Clusters : 0x000000002ba8ceec

Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000

Bytes Per Sector : 512

Bytes Per Cluster : 4096

Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0

Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000040000

Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000

Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002

Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000c0040

Mft Zone End : 0x00000000000cc840

RM Identifier: EEBBFC62-733E-11E2-A885-E840F20B8293

MSI A55M-P33 motherboard configured as 3 Tb GPT RAID1 running Windows 7 x64 SP1.

NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xf22093142092df43

Version : 3.1

Number Sectors : 0x00000000ae9d73ff

Total Clusters : 0x0000000015d3ae7f

Free Clusters : 0x0000000015d36dcb

Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000

Bytes Per Sector : 1024

Bytes Per Cluster : 8192

Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0

Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000040000

Mft Start Lcn : 0x0000000000060000

Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000001

Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000000060000

Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000066420

RM Identifier: 9589CA5C-7352-11E2-A1FB-DF07AB068339

Funky RAM timings according to windows

mdank4493 — 2013-02-07T22:40:20 -05.00

After looking at the memory speeds of both my desktop and laptop something feels up. My laptop has DDR3 1600 with an intel i5, my desktop is an A10-5800k with G.Skill Ares DDR3 2133 on an Asrock A85x board. These are my readings, desktop left, laptop right.

Can somebody please help me figure out what's going on with my desktop?

AMD AHCI driver 13.1 BSOD Windows7/8 and driver renaming

zidder — 2013-02-06T06:42:15 -05.00

Hello!

Is there any chance for fixed ahci driver soon?

I fed up with only renamed ahci drivers since 2012 april(12.4=12.5=12.6=etc... = 13.1 , and BSOD maker drivers since 2012 Jan.

And of course, I reported the problem zillion times before. You know the problem, You know the solution, why we getting only renamed drivers dear AMD?

AND You renamed only the legacy VGA drivers too (12.6=13.1)

Thank You

CPU

AMD phenom 2 565 BE

Graphics Card
Sapphire HD5770 1GB Vapor-X

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
13.1 current, and tested all before relased

Operating System
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 both 64Bit.

Issue Details
AMD AHCI DRIVER BSOD & Boot loop

Motherboard or System Make & Model
-Gigabyte MA790X-UDP3

Power Supply
Corsair 650 TX

High-pitch noise from HD in Windows 7 & 8

knielsen — 2013-02-05T09:05:26 -05.00

I am having a problem with the harddrive making almost constant high-pitch noise in Windows 7 and 8, and it is really annoying. The noise comes just after booting into Windows 7 or 8 - there is no noise when installing, nor is there any noise in Windows XP or Linux. I have tried two different harddrives, and the same happens. So it must be a driver issue, but installing the latest AMD Chipset Driver (AHCI SATA driver) for Windows 8 results in error and windows repair.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx

Motherboard: asus m3a78 emh hdmi (AMD 780G) latest bios (1302)
Harddrives: WD Caviar GP (WD5000AACS) and WD Caviar BLU (WD10EZEX)

Any suggestions?

Latest AMD SATA driver fails vs. MS Standard driver - Am I doing something wrong?

Sweeler — 2013-02-02T11:28:47 -05.00

Hi guys!

I haven't been using AMD since my good old 3400+ but now I'm back.

Unfortunately I seem to have run in to some problems with the SATA drivers.

With my Gigabyte 990FXA-UD 3 mobo I also got a brand new Corsair Neutron SSD drive.

First off I of course changed controller to ACHI and the first thing I did after Windows 7 64 bit installation was to install AMD Chipset Driver 13.1.

After I did that i ran the Windows evaluation and got 6,7 on disk performance. Tried to change to the MS Standard ACHI driver and then I got 7,9. Once again tried the AMD driver and once again 6,7.

Is it really that big difference? I really thought that the AMD driver would perform better or at least the same? Or is it just the evaluation or have I done something wrong here?

Would be happy if someone could give me an advice

Unrecognized USB device with AMD but not with Intel

Mangix — 2013-02-01T05:37:54 -05.00

The device in question is this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-to-PS2-Cable-Adapter-Converter-keyboard-Mouse-/260750036138?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb5e9ccaa

It works on a core 2 quad PC but not with an AMD A6 laptop. This is with chipset drivers 13.1

The error shown in device manager was that the USB device is unrecognized. I tried manually applying the proper Microsoft driver but it fails to initialize.

"Enable write caching on the device" VS RAIDXpert

mongo — 2013-01-30T10:58:12 -05.00

Setup

Windows 7 SP1
Latest RAID Drivers
Latest motherboard bios (Crosshair V Formula)
RAID 0 array setup using RAIDXpert

Device Manager

Disk drives --> AMD 2+0 Strip/Raid0 --> Double click --> Enable write caching on the device

RAIDXpert

Logical Drive View --> Settings

Now..

In Device Manager "Enable write caching on the device" is not checked by default.

This value though can be changed via RAIDXpert.

This is what happens

If we check the "No Cache" option and apply the setting this will change the "Enable write caching on the device" setting in Device Manager to be checked.

If we check either the "Read Cache" or "Read Ahead" then the "Enable write caching on the device" in Device Manager will be unchecked.

Is this what is meant to be happening ?

Using RAIDXpert, "No Cache" performance using AS SSD with 4K writes is arnd 60 MB/s, using "Read Ahead" performance is arnd 120 MB/s.

The thing is, this disables the "Enable write caching on the device" setting in Device Manager, but wherever I have read about optimizing SSD performance it is said that this setting needs to be enabled, hence the reason I am somewhat perplexed by what I am seeing.

So hopefully someone can chime in and offer their experience/opinions on this issue.

The AM2 story

The elder bird — 2013-01-22T18:11:31 -05.00

Hi every one,

I need help upgrading my PC

I have the following : (( HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor

with Hewlett-Packard (HP) - 3029h

NorthBridge : AMD 780

NorthBridge : AMD K8 Bridge

SouthBridge : ATI SB700

socket AM2

Processor :Type : AMD Athlon X2

Internal Specification : AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450B

Model Number : 4450B

Codename : Lima

Revision : DH-G2

8G DDR2 - 800

and a ddr3 2G graphic card .. ))

.....

I want to know if i can :

1-replace my dual - core processor with a quad core one

2-replace my DDR3 graphic card with a DDR5 one

i ve read many views about am2 am2+ .. but it confuses and i need an expert to give me the advice .. thanx alot

* If i can do the two upgrades, i ll ask later about the best advice to buy as i know it s commonly an old stuff now

Loosing 4TB RAID 5 after 2TB of data added. A85X

matthelm — 2013-01-21T18:11:04 -05.00

All,

I have a W7 64x box using a A85X chipset.

I have 3 2TB WD RED drive in a RAID5 config.

When I add a little data, all is OK. I can reset and the drive is still there, but if I add over 2TB of data, and reboot, Windows no longer sees the partition. I can use a partition recovery tool to get it back, but next rest it's gone again.

Any suggestions for a fix???