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Extra HDD blue screening computer

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Adrenaline

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I just built a new computer. I have two extra HDDs and when trying to put them into RAID of any sort I am getting blue screens.

IDE will blue screen it

AHCI will boot to windows but it will not see the extra HDDs at all.

This is happening for any HDD I plug in.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte H97 HD3
 
First of all, if you already installed Windows (7?), with the BIOS set to AHCI, then setting the BIOS to "RAID" will blue-screen your PC.

You need to re-install Windows with ther BIOS set to RAID. You generally cannot change the OS boot drive SATA controller mode without a re-install.

Second, you should run a surface-scan and a SMART self-test on that HDD before you try to configure a RAID with it.
 
VirtualLarry said:
First of all, if you already installed Windows (7?), with the BIOS set to AHCI, then setting the BIOS to "RAID" will blue-screen your PC.

You need to re-install Windows with ther BIOS set to RAID. You generally cannot change the OS boot drive SATA controller mode without a re-install.

Second, you should run a surface-scan and a SMART self-test on that HDD before you try to configure a RAID with it.
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Thanks.

I am trying to set it up as RAID 1. I will give it a go.

No matter what I did to try to get the secondary HDDs seen, nothing worked.

I tried four different HDDs and all did the same thing.

More issues. I have done four installs and while trying with RAID enabled it gives an install error. I chose IDE and will just see what happens.
 
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VirtualLarry said:
Did you supply the RAID drivers on a USB flash drive?
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Nope. I have never done a RAID before and this is too much hassle for such little worth to me. I appreciate the help.

I have a separate problem now: PCI Simple Communications Controller driver problem.

The user guide is worthless for this along with the install disc. I tried going to their website but it is slower than AOL on a 56k from 20 years ago. I have never had this issue on the computers I have reformatted.

Along with that, the power saving option under control panel was not listed for the computer but for the monitor. I looked that up and the changes I made did not get the option to appear.

This is the first time I have ever seen these two issues. I am going to give this another day and then I will just order a different board, disassemble everything I have and return the Gigabyte board.

I have a Gigabyte board in another computer that has never has these issues.
 
OK, I think it is time to you to do some reading in your motherboard manual. Here is an overview:

Get the RAID driver for Windows (as the Windows install disk won't have them)
Install the drives (of course)
Go into the BIOS and set your drive access as RAID
After saving go into the RAID BIOS and set up your array (this will erase all data on the drives)
Install Windows to the array, installing the RAID driver so that Windows can see the array

This is not specific at all. A good motherboard manual will have the specific steps you need for your board.
 
I went all through the manual. I even watched a YouTube video. I will look at it more later on. I am only having minor problems that should be able to be fixed. I have spent more time doing this OS install with drivers than I did on my last ten installs combined. Just a little frustrating.
 
Adrenaline, I'm reading that you want to install two extra hard drives in a RAID1 configuration, not as a boot drive. Is that correct?
 
Yes.

I have all the little problems taken care of but that one. I have been extremely busy with work and trying to do this in my spare time. That is the main reason this has been frustrating.
 
Adrenaline said:
Yes.

I have all the little problems taken care of but that one. I have been extremely busy with work and trying to do this in my spare time. That is the main reason this has been frustrating.
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OK, gotcha. You could just leave the BIOS and RAID BIOS alone and create the RAID array in Windows.
 
ketchup79 said:
OK, gotcha. You could just leave the BIOS and RAID BIOS alone and create the RAID array in Windows.
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Thanks. I plan on looking what I can do from Windows. I am new to RAID setup. A friend suggested Windows mirroring. I will look at that later today.
 
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