Installation onto a RAID system

January 14, 2007 10:28 PM from

Sorry for the double post, as I just realized you wanted this here. As it took me 4 hours to fix the damn hardware after the install, I don't have a crash log or anything of that sort.

Here's what happened:

I recently installed Dark Avatar onto my AMD 3200+, 1GB RAM with two msi 6600GT's connected through a SLI and a mirror 200 GB RAID array. The install went fine and then I started the game. The intro went well but then I went into options to change the screen resolution to 1600 x 1200. My system crashed... bad. No boot, nothing.

Somehow, the RAID array came unravelled, the BIOS was no longer recognizing the RAID array. The only way I could fix it was to undo the mirror array. Oh, and one of my overclocked 6600 GT's finally had enough and quit at the exact same time. Now, on the exact same system minus one of the 6600 GT's and using only twin (no RAID) 200 GB hard drives, the game runs fine.

I have no idea if this is just a fluke but I was wondering if there is someway the game would not like mirror RAIDs. By the way, GalCIV2"Dreadlords) worked just fine on this system.

Sigh... oh well, I was planning on upgrading to a duoCore anyways, so this is a good excuse.

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Reply #1 January 15, 2007 10:15 AM from

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I have no idea if this is just a fluke but I was wondering if there is someway the game would not like mirror RAIDs. By the way, GalCIV2"Dreadlords) worked just fine on this system.

A RAID array should have absolutely zero affect on the game, aside from affecting disk access speeds.

Did it crash immediately after you set the resolution, or did you restart the game and play a while? As if it happened immediately after setting the resolution in the options, it wouldn't have been anything the game did (resolution changes are not applied until after a restart of the game).

It may just have been poor timing for the video card to fail, and depending on how exactly it failed I suppose it's possible it could have caused a surge and damaged your RAID controller on the way out.

Reply #2 January 15, 2007 9:25 PM from

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Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I figured as much. It happened immediately upon changing the resolution with no restart of the game. Likely just a fluke but I thought I'd send it your way as I'm no expert.

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