[Marlen Mathers]

John – along these same lines – is there functionality within Vegas 10 to capture a “noise print” off the timeline and apply that print for noise reduction? I had this in an older program and really liked it, but don’t want to put that program on my new machine as it is 32-bit only.

If this is not available within Vegas, is it something that can be done with Sound Soap2?

[Marlen Mathers]

Don’t know if this is something I need to change, but I thought it was odd. I have my setup in the Bios to RAID, but when the system boots up – I see “Auto detecting SATA Port as IDE”. Should this be working this way. In the BIOS for “System Configuration” I have “Configure SATA as”…my selection is “RAID”. I do have other choices such as “IDE” and AHCI”.

Do I need to adjust something here to make sure I’m leveraging the SATA technology?

As usual – thanks for any help…
Marlen

[Marlen Mathers]

What you did is correct and is exactly how I have my editing workstation set up. You create the RAID in the BIOS and initialize/format the drive in Windows as one big partition.

I was just asking Dave to clarify some of his statements because they were not what I expected to hear.

Good deal Thanks for clarifying..

[Marlen Mathers]

okayyyyyy…..this RAID thing is getting interesting. I originally set up the RAID 0 in the BIOS without formating the discs. However, I couldn’t see the drives in Explorer.

I then as Dave suggested use DISK Manager to initialize the 1.8 GB (combo of two 1 TB drives) as DISK Manger did see the drive. I’m getting confused as to what my RAID controller VS the software angle is. I didn’t set up any partitions on the RAID – just left it wide open. Is this right for what I am attempting to do – which is use the RAID 0 to hold project media while I render back to swap file and finalized file on my boot drive. And then eventually store finalized assets on a G Raid external. Hoping for the best speed in rendering possible?

[Marlen Mathers]

okay… I took a chance by choosing new volume – which I was reluctant to do, becasuse it said it could only be performed for One disk. However, it seems that it looked at the 2 separate drives as one due to what I previously set up in the BIOS…so it looks like I’m good to go

Thanks for the direction…
Marlen

[Marlen Mathers]

Hey Dave –

it does show up in DISK Manager as “DISK 1 Basic 1863.02 GB Online Unallocated” – but when I right click on it – it only allows me to create a new “New Simple Volume” all other options fro striped/spanned mirrored/RAID 5 are greyed out?

[Marlen Mathers]

Well after many hours (ans with a lot of help from people in this forum) I m up and running. At least with the OS Windows 7 running and all vital system components working properly.

The problem turned out to be a bad MB. I replaced it the the ASUS Rampage III Extreme – so I suppose I’ll spend a lot of time on some ASUS forums learning about overclocking – as it seems that this is what the MB does well and should help with the HD rendering time ( I think!)

I do have one issues though. I installed 3 1TB Western digital drives. The first one was my boot drive and Windows 7 Installed nicely on that. The other two drives I left alone until I went into the BIOS and used the Utility to stripe those two drives in RAID O. However when I rebooted, I can not see the RAID? I went back into the BIOS and saw the raid under the “drives” section, but they don’t appear in Explorer when I reboot.

What am I missing to get this to show up?

Again your help is much appreciated

[Marlen Mathers]

just got the RMA from NewEgg – very nice guys to work with – they said they normally don’t refund MB’s via RMA, but they made an exception – which will allow me to head out locally today and get replacement and continue to build…(I’m trying to get this done while I’m home from work this week).

By the way nobody had the MB ASUS P6X58D-E X58 R locally, so I’m going to pick up the Asus Rampage III Formula LGA 1366 X58 ATX. I think I’m good to go with this board given my other components, but if anyone sees a reason why this would be a bad choice, I’d love to know…thanks again…
Marlen

[Marlen Mathers]

Dave – thank you for that feedback In the last couple of days – Iv’e gotten quite an education on “system integration” Let me see if I can explain where I’m at.

{.. you probably need at least three power supply connections.
If you bought a new power supply, it’s almost certainly an ATX12V version 2.3 supply. This will have a main 24-pin power connector for the motherboard; that’s the main supply, but not the only one to get things going. }

I am powering with the Corsiar HX series 850W ATX 12v 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91. I have the 24pin power connector in, as well as the “dual 4 pin” ATX just above the CPU (and yes – I did have to remove the knockout to use the full 8 pins)

{And finally, you need a 6-pin or 8-pin ePCI power cable run to your graphics board, in most cases. Leseee… lucky you… yours want TWO 6-pin ePCI power cables connected. }

Mne needs 2 6 PIN and I am running that off my PSU which had the cable connector.

{So that’s the most obvious stuff. Make sure you have your three DIMMs in the appropriate color-coordinated slots (all blue or all black), and obviously, seated well.}

I think I need help with this one. What DIMMS are speaking of? I have my AUSU GPU in a blue PCI 2.0 16x slot – and all 6 sticks of RAM in their slots. I have nothing else installed on the board.

I went thru a series of troubleshooting from forums on the web and calling into ASUS support. When I couldn’t even get the “BEEP” to sound in POST, I took out the RAM and the GPU and still had no “BEEP”. THe people at Asus said in most likely hood the board was bad. Figuring the CPU rarely is bad out of the box and that the PSU was powering fans and lighting up LEDS.

I’m looking to replace the MB (even if it just see if that’s it) unless anyone else has something else I can look into.

As always THANK YOU for these helpful thoughts. Let me know if my info here spawns any additional thoughts and good luck with the render!

[Marlen Mathers]

Happy Holiday All –

Major problem with setting up my system and I realize this may not be the forum or thread to post this, but I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I started to put my system together and ran into a problem. I installed the PSU | Loaded the RAM | Put in the CPU with thermal Artic and installed the heatsink/fan | Made what I thought was the right connections of wires on the motherboard to the case | Installed the video card | and then (like an earlier build from DIY Videoguyss I hooked up a keyboard and mouse and turned on the power to see if it would begin to boot.

The good news was that when I turned it on all the fans began to spin including the one in the video card and on th CPU. The bad news was nothing else happened. I though I was going see something on the screen from the BIOS or something like that.

I re seated the RAM. Reset the CPU (although the locking mechanism for the CPU didn’t feel as smooth as it should be, but I know the chip was place and seated properly). I also had a little bit of an issues seating the video card. It seemed slightly off from stiiting properly and still get mounted to the case – which is weird becasue it’s an ASUS Motherboard and ASUS video card). In any event I do believe I am seated properly on the card now.

Can anyone let me know if there is anything I could be missing? I haven’t put in the optical or HDD’s yet, thinking I need to isolate this problem Is there a chance I have some incompatibilities with my hardware?

Again I know this may not be the right place to get these answers, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, I sure would appreciate it. Below is the equipment I am trying to instal…

Marry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!

CASE NZXT| PHAN-001WT RT
CPUp|INTEL CI7 950
Motherboard | ASUS P6X58D-E X58 R
Memory | 2Gx6|CORSAIR HX3X12G1600C9 G
PSU | CORSAIR|CMPSU-850HX 850W RT
VIdeo Card | VGA ASUS|ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5/V2 R