OK guys, I'm hoping that you can help with a weird problem getting RAID set up on my new motherboard. Here's the rundown.
New GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard (BIOS F5) with 2GB of DDR2-800, Athlon X2 3800+, Radeon 7600GS and 2 - 160GB, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache SATA2 hard disks.
I set up my RAID 1 array in the nVidia RAID utility and it shows my one healthy array as it should. I reboot the machine, still shows my nice healthy array, no problems. I go to install Windows from scratch, and when it does the first reboot, right before Windows goes to GUI setup, the single RAID 1 array that I had created now shows up as 2 arrays, and they both show as degraded. The machine won't boot, and has the lovely "NTLDR is missing. Press CTRL+Alt+Del to reboot" message. I have updated the BIOS to F5 (came with F4), used the driver that comes with the motherboard, used the updated driver from Gigabyte's website, and the driver downloaded directly from nVidia as well, and still the same problem. I have also moved the disks around to different SATA ports, and successfully installed Windows to each of the hard disks without using RAID.
I'm already planning on getting an RMA for this thing, but thought I'd throw my odd problem up and see if anyone had ideas so that it could save me being without a PC for another week while I get this thing shipped in and a new one back.
New GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard (BIOS F5) with 2GB of DDR2-800, Athlon X2 3800+, Radeon 7600GS and 2 - 160GB, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache SATA2 hard disks.
I set up my RAID 1 array in the nVidia RAID utility and it shows my one healthy array as it should. I reboot the machine, still shows my nice healthy array, no problems. I go to install Windows from scratch, and when it does the first reboot, right before Windows goes to GUI setup, the single RAID 1 array that I had created now shows up as 2 arrays, and they both show as degraded. The machine won't boot, and has the lovely "NTLDR is missing. Press CTRL+Alt+Del to reboot" message. I have updated the BIOS to F5 (came with F4), used the driver that comes with the motherboard, used the updated driver from Gigabyte's website, and the driver downloaded directly from nVidia as well, and still the same problem. I have also moved the disks around to different SATA ports, and successfully installed Windows to each of the hard disks without using RAID.
I'm already planning on getting an RMA for this thing, but thought I'd throw my odd problem up and see if anyone had ideas so that it could save me being without a PC for another week while I get this thing shipped in and a new one back.
