IC7-G Sata issues

[stewrt]

TextHey all Hope you can help me with this prob. buggin the crap out of me.

Recently debugged my computer and reformatted and in the process removed a RAID0 array which contained 2 SATA WD raptors And left 1 of the Raptors to use as a boot drive. Also installed a new 200GB drive and kept my old 80GB drive in there.
IN the windows startup it found all 3 drives, and I loaded windows onto the Raptor. Thought I had the Bios setup correctly (read the manual even). Have the SATA drive on SATA1 and the other drives are both IDE.
After the drive is formatted and windows is loaded, and it restarts, it asks me to boot from the CD... then it froze up. so I removed the disk rebooted and checked the boot order. Same thing. "Boot from CD?" And then she freezes. Each of the 5 times and inbetween loading windows I checked the Bios with a fine tooth comb. I really wanted that 10k rpm sata for my boot drive and still do.
anyone else had this problem or can recogmend a solution.
Please help
Thanks

 

[SinfulWeeper]

I have issues with my IC7-G sata loading myself... the problem is very simalar to yours. I ended up having to use the non-intel sata raid array. Even so it is somewhat problematic. But it performs all other tasks like a streamline butterfly. But damnit, I wanna boot off my RAID0 off the intel's sata interface on a clean install of windows. But it took me hours just to figure out (and multiple installs like you) how to get it to boot on it's current configuration. But unlike you, my 2 sata seagtes are the online hard drives in there...

 

[stewrt]

Could the possible problem be the jumper settings?
Thats the only thing I havent tried and just thought of it..

 

[Rob_63]

Hmm, I am having a simular problem with my Asus P4C800 E Deluxe. I decided not to use my 2 wd raptors in raid 0 and use one for the OS and one for my game storage. I also have a Sata barracuda 120gb that is for general file storage. I had the raptors on the promise chip while using raid and the seagate on the ICHR5 and it worked fine. I noticed that the raid performance was negligible and not worth the extra boot time and decided to use the raptors separately and could not get all three drives to work properly. If I adjust the bios to IDE instead of raid and set the proper drive to boot in the boot drive section no matter how I hook them up only two show up in windows, either two on the ICHR5 or two on the Promise chip. I have an IC7-G Max2 here and was thinking of switching, now I am not so sure it is worth it.

Stewrt, what jumper settings are you referring too?

 

[stewrt]

Refering to the jumper settings on the Raptor drive.
I still havent even looked at them. I need my system right now to study for a test.
But in the future I want that Raptor as a boot drive.
Could it make a difference? I seem to recall having to set the jumpers a certain way for the RAID array to work.

This is fun now that I'm getting some replies. Keep the input comin.

This is the first system I've built without a Intel Mobo. This damn Abit has got more tweaks available that it makes my head spin when I go in the Bios. but then something so simple as the serial port doesnt work. And Serial drives dont like to work in conjunction with IDE drives. WTF

 

[stewrt]

Jumper settings LOL what was I thinkin.

It was a small little overlooked item in the Bios. How I couldnt get this before boggles my mind now.
Issue ressolved.

Thanks All,
Stewrt