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anyone? heh

Ok i have a few noobish questions regarding raid, i hope someone can give me a hand with this heh. 1:Whats the diference between the marvel and the intel raid controllers? 2:Whats the whole point of putting 2 diferent ones? 3:Which one is better for what purpose? 4:If the Marvel is Better, why put i...

Better just post this as another question in the forums in case someone else might have the same doubt.

BTW while im here and you guys are watchingi have a question.

Whats the diference between the marvel and the intel raid controllers? whats the whole point of putting 2 diferent ones? and which one is better for what?

Lol, yes system is working very similar to yours, also its now booting just fine...

Well i think that settles that problem lol....

WATCH YOUR IDE CABLE SETTINGS hahaha

Great... it was the IDE western digital drive... it was set to master but with slave and there was no slave... god i hate WDs Master/Slave pinout systems, its the only one that does that to a system when theres no slave present... Well that took care of that... and it seems it also fixed the non boo...

Hmm its doing the slow boot again... i think its the IDE interface... testing..

What are your system specs, We have: XBX2 (box or bulk?) BFG 8800GTX (lucky dawg) What memory? What CPU? What Optical drive (mainly is it/them SATA or EIDE for the optical?)? What hard drive(s) and are you booting from a RAID set? What controller are the or all of the drives connected to? This info...

well ill be damned... man ur a genius.. the video AUTO did it, its working just fine now, still wondering why it doesnt wanna boot from the usb floppy but thats happened to me before on other machines so its not a big deal..

Thanks a ton!!!

done :/ no dice, still same problem

On another another note...

When in the bios i can almost see the bios windows draw themselves, like if the computer was running at like 2mhz....

(No overclocking was done on any components in this system ever)

Ok so i give up, this board is just nuts, heres the problem in a nutshell. I have the XBX2 board, whenever i power it on, it shows a small dash top left corner of my screen, (This Dash _ ) it does not blink, just stays there for 50 seconds (Timed it) after that is done it flashes the "Press F2 ...