Legit Reviews

Try pinging one of the computers from the computer you just built. First we need to figure out the ip address of the computer we are going to ping. First we need to get to a command prompt, do this by going to the Start menu and click 'run', in the text box that appears type 'cmd' then 'Enter' or ju...

And that wraps it up. Thx turnsoutitwas (ironic screen name for this matter). I scoured through my boxes and the label on the box states it is the D945GTPL, thus not allowing RAID configurations. At least this adventure made me re-fire it up and get it working again.

"I'm at a loss," same here, same here. No the intel matrix raid controller is not initializing, which is why I was wondering if the ROM chip (or whatever the proper term is) could have been damaged.

I've been using a DFI Infinity P965-S for a while now and have enjoyed it. Found it for $ 43 here. It's supposed to be a good board for overclocking (I've barely tweaked it) and there is a lot of nice threads about the board/etc here

Forgot about that lovely tool CPU-Z, haven't been teching in a while. It says D945GTP and the Southbridge states its an ICH7/R (which I saw somewhere (seemed creditable) that the R stands for RAID and if it was just ICH7 that'd mean RAID was not possible. Hey Dan, check out my edit from the last pos...

Fo sho. Although it's a little perplexing b/c on the board it says "Intel Desktop Board D945GTP, D945PLM". So I checked out the D945PLM manual and there is no mention bout RAID capabilities @ page 10, so I fired up Windows XP 32-bit (installed that so I could use the Express BIOS the iFlas...

No third option for 'RAID' and yes all 4 drives are powered up and showing in the Drive Configuration menu. I have reflashed the MB bios, even went to a previous version, checked BIOS (same), and then reflashed to the latest and greatest ;). Plus all the drives show when an OS is running. An alterna...

Thanks ibleet for all your time. I should have posted the menus that are avaiable but was a lil'tired and frustrated last night :). The three options I fiddled with under Advanced -> Drive Configuration are 'Use Automatic Mode' (Enable | Disable), 'Use Serial ATA' (Enable | Disable), 'ATA/IDE Mode' ...

I tried doing that as well, but w/o first enabling RAID in the BIOS and then creating a RAID volume it didn't seem logical and did not work either.

I don't get the Ctrl + i option b/c there is no Intel Matrix Storage Manager status screen that appears.

As the subject states I'm trying to figure out why there is no RAID option available when much documentation states this board/bios has the capabilities. Mobo: Intel D945GTP ( Intel Download/Documenation Mobo page) BIOS: NT94510J.86A.4092 (Even reverted back to NT941510J.86A.1788 as there was mentio...