So I recently bought this mobo and have been pretty happy with it except raid setup.
I installed my system and blah blah blah.
I am running vista 64-bit and everything working fine.
So then I decide that I want to put back my raid 1 so I can continue to add a layer of protection my pictures, data, etc.
With my old Nforce4 Ultra mobo, it was a matter of enable raid, go to the raid bios set it up and boot. Windows then would recognize the raid, install drivers and voila.
With this new AMD770 chipset, I tried the same but as soon as vista starts to load it boots and it keeps going on that loop. Until raid is disabled again.
I upgraded the bios to F5 but no improvement...to be honest I did not see that being fixed there anyhow.
I contact Gigabyte support and the responses have not been quite to the point but it makes me believe that you have to actually install vista from scratch with raid enabled in order to make it work...I find that unbelievable...
Here are the responses from support:
Question1: I have installed Vista 64-bit. Now after the OS has been installed I have been trying to add a raid 1 - however I am unable to go into Vista. It wont get into the OS in safe mode or normal mode.
Enabled RAID or RAID>AHCI do not work.
I would like to know how to add the raid 1 setup after the OS is already running.
Answer1 : Raid will need to be created from the start before loading up the OS. Please backup all data first before attempt creating the raid array
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Question2: Does that mean I need to reinstall the OS?
Answer2: Yes, if you are able to boot with the existing hdd you can backup all data first
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Question3: That is ridiculous. There has to be a way to do this without reinstall the OS.
Even my nforce4 ultra ( 2 - 3 years old ) was able to do this.
Send me to a higher tier of support.
Answer3: ATI does not allow for you to create an existing array under Windows. This board uses an different chipste as compared to the nForce 4
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Question4: Of course it is different than the nforce4. I am just making the point that the nforce4 chipset is older and yet does something good.
This makes no sense. So I buy this motherboard and install my stuff, then I want to add two additional 'empty' disks and set them up in raid 1 so I can move my data in there...and yet I have to reinstall the OS?
I have tried to define the raid in the AMD raid bios but windows will not even boot up once raid is enabled.
This is a bug! and a big one.
Answer4: None yet.
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So it seems like the issue may be by design...
Anyone have any experience with this board and perhaps been able to get around the issue.
I would really liked to avoid having to reinstall and I have a feeling it may not even work like that.
I installed my system and blah blah blah.
I am running vista 64-bit and everything working fine.
So then I decide that I want to put back my raid 1 so I can continue to add a layer of protection my pictures, data, etc.
With my old Nforce4 Ultra mobo, it was a matter of enable raid, go to the raid bios set it up and boot. Windows then would recognize the raid, install drivers and voila.
With this new AMD770 chipset, I tried the same but as soon as vista starts to load it boots and it keeps going on that loop. Until raid is disabled again.
I upgraded the bios to F5 but no improvement...to be honest I did not see that being fixed there anyhow.
I contact Gigabyte support and the responses have not been quite to the point but it makes me believe that you have to actually install vista from scratch with raid enabled in order to make it work...I find that unbelievable...
Here are the responses from support:
Question1: I have installed Vista 64-bit. Now after the OS has been installed I have been trying to add a raid 1 - however I am unable to go into Vista. It wont get into the OS in safe mode or normal mode.
Enabled RAID or RAID>AHCI do not work.
I would like to know how to add the raid 1 setup after the OS is already running.
Answer1 : Raid will need to be created from the start before loading up the OS. Please backup all data first before attempt creating the raid array
******************
Question2: Does that mean I need to reinstall the OS?
Answer2: Yes, if you are able to boot with the existing hdd you can backup all data first
******************
Question3: That is ridiculous. There has to be a way to do this without reinstall the OS.
Even my nforce4 ultra ( 2 - 3 years old ) was able to do this.
Send me to a higher tier of support.
Answer3: ATI does not allow for you to create an existing array under Windows. This board uses an different chipste as compared to the nForce 4
******************
Question4: Of course it is different than the nforce4. I am just making the point that the nforce4 chipset is older and yet does something good.
This makes no sense. So I buy this motherboard and install my stuff, then I want to add two additional 'empty' disks and set them up in raid 1 so I can move my data in there...and yet I have to reinstall the OS?
I have tried to define the raid in the AMD raid bios but windows will not even boot up once raid is enabled.
This is a bug! and a big one.
Answer4: None yet.
******************
So it seems like the issue may be by design...
Anyone have any experience with this board and perhaps been able to get around the issue.
I would really liked to avoid having to reinstall and I have a feeling it may not even work like that.
