Hi! So I'm (obviously) having problems. Here are the details:
Part A: Plan:
So last year, I built my first system around the Intel badaxe2 motherboard, because I wanted the 2 RAIDs for video editing. I used the blue (300GB) Raid for
reading/copying from the camera, and the black (300GB) raid for writing/exporting the finished product. This Christmas, I bought two 1TB drives, with the plan
of upgrading the blue 300GB to a 2TB RAID 0, stripe 128.
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Part B: Practice:
Before installing the drives, I wanted to "practice" reinstalling the blue raid. So (with the computer off) I disconnected the cables from the blue raid to the two 150GB hard drives.
When I powered on the computer, while the black RAID was detected as normal, it said that the blue RAID had an error and I got error message 1:
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Intel Boot Agent GE v1.2.28
BaseCode (PXE-2.1 build 085)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
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I expected to see this (since I had disconnected the cables.) When I reconnected the cables, Windows XP started up problem free.
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Part C: Deleting the 300GB RAID
Before installing the unformatted 1TB drives, I continued to practice. I deleted the 300 GB, restarted the computer and got error message 1. Again, I expected to see this.
I then recreated the 300GB RAID, formatted it as RAID 0, stripe 128. I rebooted.
The computer detected the black raid, and the blue raid, but it gave me error message 1 again.
Uh oh.
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Part D: Attempted troubleshooting
I knew it wasn't a hardware problem (since the hardware was identical to when the computer last worked). And all the cables checked out fine. It wasn't a windows problem either (since it hasn't even loaded yet.)
So I checked the manual, and played with the bios settings.
The Boot Menu settings had the CD/disk and the C: hard disk above the blue Raid disk as a boot source. But the recreated blue RAID was still listed in the list.
Hmm, maybe booting was stalling b/c it looked at all the sources in the list, and with a unformatted blue raid, that's what was causing the problems?
So I disconnected the blue RAID cables and restarted. The computer found the black RAID, the blue raid was undetected, but I still got error message 1.
(With the blue raid cables disconnected, the boot menu settings no longer listed the blue raid in the list of possible boot sources).
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Part E: Stuck
so now I'm stuck. Why won't Windows XP load when I've disconnected the blue RAID cables?
The OS was installed on the (single/simple non-Raid) drive C, and was untouched during all the raid swapping.
I feel like I'm missing something really basic, and my relative inexperience with computer innards is beginning to show. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Part A: Plan:
So last year, I built my first system around the Intel badaxe2 motherboard, because I wanted the 2 RAIDs for video editing. I used the blue (300GB) Raid for
reading/copying from the camera, and the black (300GB) raid for writing/exporting the finished product. This Christmas, I bought two 1TB drives, with the plan
of upgrading the blue 300GB to a 2TB RAID 0, stripe 128.
----
Part B: Practice:
Before installing the drives, I wanted to "practice" reinstalling the blue raid. So (with the computer off) I disconnected the cables from the blue raid to the two 150GB hard drives.
When I powered on the computer, while the black RAID was detected as normal, it said that the blue RAID had an error and I got error message 1:
=======
Intel Boot Agent GE v1.2.28
BaseCode (PXE-2.1 build 085)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
======
I expected to see this (since I had disconnected the cables.) When I reconnected the cables, Windows XP started up problem free.
---------
Part C: Deleting the 300GB RAID
Before installing the unformatted 1TB drives, I continued to practice. I deleted the 300 GB, restarted the computer and got error message 1. Again, I expected to see this.
I then recreated the 300GB RAID, formatted it as RAID 0, stripe 128. I rebooted.
The computer detected the black raid, and the blue raid, but it gave me error message 1 again.
Uh oh.
----------
Part D: Attempted troubleshooting
I knew it wasn't a hardware problem (since the hardware was identical to when the computer last worked). And all the cables checked out fine. It wasn't a windows problem either (since it hasn't even loaded yet.)
So I checked the manual, and played with the bios settings.
The Boot Menu settings had the CD/disk and the C: hard disk above the blue Raid disk as a boot source. But the recreated blue RAID was still listed in the list.
Hmm, maybe booting was stalling b/c it looked at all the sources in the list, and with a unformatted blue raid, that's what was causing the problems?
So I disconnected the blue RAID cables and restarted. The computer found the black RAID, the blue raid was undetected, but I still got error message 1.
(With the blue raid cables disconnected, the boot menu settings no longer listed the blue raid in the list of possible boot sources).
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Part E: Stuck
so now I'm stuck. Why won't Windows XP load when I've disconnected the blue RAID cables?
The OS was installed on the (single/simple non-Raid) drive C, and was untouched during all the raid swapping.
I feel like I'm missing something really basic, and my relative inexperience with computer innards is beginning to show. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
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