Abit KV8
Sempron 2600+
1Gb stick of Generic RAM
Radeon 9550SE
2x 80Gb HD (S-ATA RAID 0)
1x DVD-RW
This is the basics of my system as I type this. I have inputted all of the above into an online PSU Watt calculator I found plus ticked the relevant boxes for USB devices etc, plus I made one change which was to swap my Radeon 9550SE for a Radeon X850 Pro and I get a total of 287 Watts. Less than my PSU's 350 Watt max.
Here's the prob tho, when I plug in my X850 the RAID bios displays that it has detected both my harddisks but there is no array setup.
I plug the 9550SE back in and PC boots into windows perfectly.
Plug X850 and array disappears again.
I've googled and found nothing about this, it has me bugged because if it was a Power issue surely the RAID failure would be down to underpowered drives yet it detects both of my harddisks but displays that I haven't setup an array, despite the array being detected again as soon as i switch the cards. It may be that the drives have sufficient power to detect but not enough to boot but surely array info would be saved in the RAID bios and not on the disks.
Lastly the new card has a PCI-E 6pin supply but I was given a splitter that connects the 6pin to two 4pin molex connectors so if push came to shove i could take the card's supply from both 12v rails, but whether I take power from a single empty rail, both rails together or even disconnect every device and have the harddisks on one rail and Radeon on the other I still get no RAID array.
This has me totally confused, don't want to shell out on a new PSU if I don't need it as my system is pretty much bare expansion card-wise. Any RAID / Radeon ideas guys?
Sempron 2600+
1Gb stick of Generic RAM
Radeon 9550SE
2x 80Gb HD (S-ATA RAID 0)
1x DVD-RW
This is the basics of my system as I type this. I have inputted all of the above into an online PSU Watt calculator I found plus ticked the relevant boxes for USB devices etc, plus I made one change which was to swap my Radeon 9550SE for a Radeon X850 Pro and I get a total of 287 Watts. Less than my PSU's 350 Watt max.
Here's the prob tho, when I plug in my X850 the RAID bios displays that it has detected both my harddisks but there is no array setup.
I plug the 9550SE back in and PC boots into windows perfectly.
Plug X850 and array disappears again.
I've googled and found nothing about this, it has me bugged because if it was a Power issue surely the RAID failure would be down to underpowered drives yet it detects both of my harddisks but displays that I haven't setup an array, despite the array being detected again as soon as i switch the cards. It may be that the drives have sufficient power to detect but not enough to boot but surely array info would be saved in the RAID bios and not on the disks.
Lastly the new card has a PCI-E 6pin supply but I was given a splitter that connects the 6pin to two 4pin molex connectors so if push came to shove i could take the card's supply from both 12v rails, but whether I take power from a single empty rail, both rails together or even disconnect every device and have the harddisks on one rail and Radeon on the other I still get no RAID array.
This has me totally confused, don't want to shell out on a new PSU if I don't need it as my system is pretty much bare expansion card-wise. Any RAID / Radeon ideas guys?