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Titolo: At wits end! SD11, K7, Promise RAID, IBM Deskstar

I would sincerely appreciate the help of anyone with a clue to what may
be happening or a suggestion of where to look or what to try! I have
contacted fellow MCSEs, MCTs, friends (Engineers) the Mnfrs tech
support... anyone who might be in the know, everyone but an excorist!
System:
AMD K7 -600 mhz
FIC SD-11 Mb
256 Toshiba non-ecc RAM
Dear 300w PS
2 X 13.5 gig IBM HDs
Promise RAID controller (RAID 0 chosen)
SCSI Sony CD-R
56x Afreeys CD R
SB Live- Value
Intel PCI NIC
G400 Dual Head
USB CDR-W Mitsumi
Sony 520GS Mon
Promedia THX spkrs
etc.
Windows 98 SE (If I can get it working!)
This computer worked just fine when I first build it. Since the initial
problem (Errors while booting to Win 98SE- Would not finish booting).
After booting I FDisk the drives, after that I format them.. after the
format is finished it locks while it writes the FAT table. I can reboot
and it is still formatted and available, but then it freezes during the
time I am copying files to the HD from the CD Rom. After a few reboots
it may tell me that it does not detect a drive that is formatted..
please use FDisk to make a partition.
I have replaced:
A) the Promise FastTrack 66 cables (UDMA-66)
B) flashed the controller's bios
C) replaced the FastTrack Controller
D) replaced the Mother Board FIC SD-11
E) replaced one of the DeskStar 13 gig HDs
Still...
I can't get the FAT to get copied to the drive after formatting, or
although it did finish the FAT the first time after installing the new
drive (replacement drive) it would copy only a few of the Win98 SE
installation files before locking up.
Other things that have I have done:
1) Stripped out all but the Video card (G400) and the Promise controller
2) Played with the BIOS settings (trying Cached, no Cached EVERYTHING!)
3) Trying installing it from the Win98 CDRom (Locks) Scandisk stops
when checking the fat.
   a) What is unique or what happens during FAT? Or writing the FAT?
4) Tried Flashing the Mb's BIOS.. to no avail:
   a) Error 35 Invalid Opcode in flash821.exe at 0800: 0B94 Code:0000
ss=00a8 ds=00a8 es=00a8 ax=0000 bx=5228 cx=0b94 dx=0020 sp=8902 bp=75ca
si=3d90 di=6210
Booting from floppy, type "flash821 nc607.rom" or just "flash821"
either yeilds the same result.
5) Tried different Promise RAID software option (RAID configurations)
6) I have used either CD Roms the SCSI or the ATAPI
Place the ram into a friends computer to test it-fine! I have prayed,
pleaded and threatened my computer.. to no good end!
I can fdisk it, split it up or leave it as one large partition, format
it..but when it goes to write the FAT it freezes! I can still reboot
and put files on the drive via the floppy disk or via the CD roms but
after few files it freezes! I can copy three to four files at a time
but any after that (queued) it locks!
Again, sometimes when I reboot it tells me that "Fdisk
determined that there is no FAT table".... I start again!
It worked once, (the FAT was written) the first time I added the
replacement drive (it took 1 month to get the drive from IBM), but then
when I started to copy the 98 flat files it stops after a few
files....freezing!
I have spent more money sending my parts back overnight to the manfrs.
then a new drive would have cost me.
I am MS Certified, a Gamer, a Tech support manager, a former Engineer
and I am at my wits end!!! I am thinking of buying 2 more HDs and 64
megs of RAM to replace the RAM and HDs with fresh parts if needed. I
wanted to have it ready for the kids for X-Mas, I brought 5 new games
for them.....Help!!
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Is Virus protection enabled in the bios?
I have read many times that this must be disabled for install.
HTH,
Shel.
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I can think of two things You probably have a bad Ram chip try taking some
out and use ecc. If you are using RAID 0 it will not work with the fat file
system I don't think. RAID 0 is disk striping which divides the disk into
32k blocks fat is only 16. I could be wrong but it is something to look at.
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