K8N Neo2 w/ 2 SATA Drives in RAID0

dsorrent

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I read somewhere that in order to OC this board, I had to have the 2 SATA drives set up on SATA 3/4, however, when I had the drives set up on SATA 3/4, during my Windows Installation, it would hang at the "Setup is Starting Windows" just after loading all of the drivers. I did hit F6 and load the NVRAID and Controller Drivers, but nothing, it would just hang. The only way I was able to actually get Windows installed was to move the two drives to SATA 1 & 2. Once they were on those, Windows install sailed smoothly.

So, my questions are:

1) Does anyone know why I couldn't install Window to SATA 3/4?

2) After Windows is setup and all, can I simply just unplug the drives from SATA 1/2 and plug them back into 3/4 so that I can then OC?

Thanks!
 

WA261

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Best spot to ask this would be at verclockers.com in the MSI forum. :) Tons of threads on this mobo there. :)
 

Elfear

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I used to have that mobo and if I remember right you can install the OS with the drives on ports 1&2 and then just switch them over to 3&4, adjusting the bios accordingly.

Did you remember to enable the Raid array on ports 3&4 in the bios? There are two spots to enable it at. One is in the raid configurator and the other is where you enable/disable the individual sata ports. I can't remember their exact location in the bios right now. I had no probs getting the OS to load while on ports 3&4.
 

dsorrent

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Hey all, thanks for the replies... I'll check out overclockers.com...

Elfear- Yea, I saw that in the BIOS... kind of confusing so I just enabled all of them.. I was able to go into the NVRAID configuration and setup striping on SATA 3/4 so the BIOS was definitely recognizing the drives on 3/4, however, it was during the Windows install it would hang..
 

Elfear

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Dumb question, but did you hit F6 and install the Raid drivers during the Windows setup?
 

dsorrent

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Slaimus - I upgraded to the 1.5 BIOS, didn't help...

Elfear - :) Yes, I did that.. that's how I got it to work on SATA 1/2 ;)