So I had a GA-EP35-UD3L board and I decided to upgrade to a GA-EP45-UD3P because I want two 300GB WD Velociraptors in RAID-0 configuration. Well this has become a huge headache. I am having trouble getting the computer to boot. It sometimes boots up fine and I can get into the Windows 7 64-bit installation and then when it starts copying files during the installation there will be a short beep and the computer shuts off. Other times it will just shut down randomly between the POST screen and sometime shortly after the RAID screen.
Here is the hardware breakdown:
GA-EP45-UD3P
CPU: Intel Q9550 2.83GHz
Memory: 2x 2GB Corsair Dominator CM2X2048-8500C5D modules 5-5-5-15-2T 2.1V
Hard drives: 2x 300GB WD Velociraptor SATA
Graphics: ATI Sapphire 512MB 4850 PCIe
I have tried setting optimized defaults in BIOS and then just changing the memory settings to 5-5-5-15 and 2.1V. It doesn't seem to fix anything.
The memory and CPU work fine on the old board. Is it possible one of the WD drives is bad? How can I test them? I bought the WD drives used.
Here is the hardware breakdown:
GA-EP45-UD3P
CPU: Intel Q9550 2.83GHz
Memory: 2x 2GB Corsair Dominator CM2X2048-8500C5D modules 5-5-5-15-2T 2.1V
Hard drives: 2x 300GB WD Velociraptor SATA
Graphics: ATI Sapphire 512MB 4850 PCIe
I have tried setting optimized defaults in BIOS and then just changing the memory settings to 5-5-5-15 and 2.1V. It doesn't seem to fix anything.
The memory and CPU work fine on the old board. Is it possible one of the WD drives is bad? How can I test them? I bought the WD drives used.
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