MOBO not detecting hardrives all of a sudden

[MurdocSSG]

I was playing Counterstrike one night after work as usual, hit escape to change my mouse sensitivity and the screen turned black, I couldn't do anything to get our of that screen, it just froze. I held down the pwr button until it shut down, then I turned the system back on again. On the post screen there are no hard drives now! All it sees are the CD-ROM drives.... but after POST passes and I get to the RAID detection screen, it sees the array... After that screen it just stops loading, right before the Win XP Pro screen comes up. I took my tower apart and reconnected all the cables and jumpers, flashed my CMOS, and repeatedly rebooted my system to no avail. I even unplugged my CDROM drives, plugged one of the drives from the raid into IDE 1 (which my burner is on) and the system detected it, but I want my damn RAID back, along with all my files...

Western Digital Caviar 80gb, 8mb cache drives in RAID 0 on IDE 3 and 4
EPOX 8K5A3+ MB with 512 GeIL Turbo 433 Ram
Win XP Pro with SP1

Any thoughts?

 

[Jeffph]

i think i read somewhere in asus boards that 8mb cached HD has probs with raid not sure tho u can check it out

 

[MurdocSSG]

I've heard that too, but that does that explain why it would just stop working out of nowhere after a year of solid performance?

The HPT detects it after the POST screen, but when I go into the BIOS, all it sees are the CDROM drives. The comp stops booting at the IRQ page after the POST screen.

 

[anglo]

Sorry I can't help you out. Unplugging, re-plugging all seems good. I would suggest it's your RAID controller.

Just a point here though.

You mean to say you flashed your BIOS, not your CMOS.

And you change the CMOS settings, not your BIOS.

The BIOS is adjustable only by flashing or TEMPORARILY through the CMOS.

 

[snidy1]

Try reseting your bios

 

[Tab]

Try using the automatic windows restore feature? Or reset your bios.

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: anglo
Sorry I can't help you out. Unplugging, re-plugging all seems good. I would suggest it's your RAID controller.

Just a point here though.

You mean to say you flashed your BIOS, not your CMOS.

And you change the CMOS settings, not your BIOS.

The BIOS is adjustable only by flashing or TEMPORARILY through the CMOS.

Why do people post stuff like this? Especially when they are as confused as the person they are correcting?

CMOS is the semiconductor technology of the device that you flash your BIOS program to. You cannot change the CMOS without replacing the silicon itself. You flash the BIOS program and change the BIOS program calibration values onto (or if you prefer.... into) the CMOS Device.

Love,

-Sid

Now tell me this was not an obnoxious post....... so quit it!