ICH10R on X58, had a BSOD now RAID10 set is borked.

[WhyohWhyMe]

So there I was, enjoying a working PC with no faulty drives configured in a RAID10 - 4x1TB drives (2xWD+2xSeagate) for the interested. And bam, a BSOD, I reboot and notice there is no longer a boot loader. Further investigation tells me both of the two drives on one side have gone into failed mode.

I've tried BIOS update, reboots galore, re-seating, different SATA ports, to no avail. I know it _could_ be that the drives actually died, but I have a hard time believing I had two totally fatal errors on both drives at the same very instant and the BSOD has nothing to do with it.

How can I diagnose from here knowledgeable people?

I don't want to rebuild because I'm about 40 hours into Just Cause 2 🙂

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Sounds like a RAM/memory issue.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

While you are online now, do two things. Download Memtest HCI (in OS memory tester) and download and burn Memtest86 (memory diagnostic test through bios)

Memtest HCI > Memtest86

 

[P4spooky]

Can you tell us which of the pair is marked as failed by the Intel RAID Bios? WD (blacks especially) are notorious for dropping from RAID. As you know RAID 10 cannot tolerate 2 failed drives so you may be looking at data loss without a backup

That said, I believe your drives are fine but just marked as failed. I suggest you do the following:

0. Unplug your 4 RAID 10 drives. Mark the ports/Drive so that hook them back in the same order.
1. Add a single drive to your machine and install OS and boot off of this drive
2. Install Intel Matrix Storage software - Latest version
3. Shutdown
4. Reconnect your 4 drives (RAID 10) in the exact same ports/order
5. Reboot
6. Enter Matrix Storage Manager and mark the drives as 'good'
7. Back up your data immediately
8. Matrix Storage manager has a array validate option - Run this (will take a while) and will pass if there is nothing wrong with the drives

Try this and let us know.

 

[coolrecep]

I hate bumping old threads but in case somebody faces this problem, I have found a solution to it.

You can view it here: http://www.technopat.net/forum/ssd-...7-solved-raid-0-failed-after-bios-update.html

I am not spamming guys. I am trying to help those who are deperately searching for a solution. I have saved 2.7 TBs of data.