I have a P4C800E Deluxe that has been working fine for a long time. I have two RAID 0 setups. My main, bootable RAID is a pair of Maxtor 250GB SATA drives on the ICH5R and another RAID on the Promise controller.
Twice now, during the past few months, I would be using the system...this last time just doing a Google Search, and I hear the hard drives on the ICH5R scanning/clicking. Sounds like a rezero.
Drive light is almost on solid. When I kill it and reboot, BIOS startup shows the RAID is not bootable. Checked drives with Maxtor standalone software ant the drives are fine.
The fix...both times...is that when I boot and it says no bootable drive, I hit CTRL-I. The ICH5R RAID utility comes up and says it sees a fixable error. It asks if the two disks showing are the ones that make up my RAID. I answer yes, and when I get the next menu...rather than telling it to fix it or rebuild it, etc, I EXIT. From then on...all works fine for several months. I had first thought it was my CMOS battery, but this happens well after the system has been turned on and has booted XP Pro SP3, so I do not believe, at that point, that I am using the CMOS Battery. Any ideas?
TIA
Twice now, during the past few months, I would be using the system...this last time just doing a Google Search, and I hear the hard drives on the ICH5R scanning/clicking. Sounds like a rezero.
Drive light is almost on solid. When I kill it and reboot, BIOS startup shows the RAID is not bootable. Checked drives with Maxtor standalone software ant the drives are fine.
The fix...both times...is that when I boot and it says no bootable drive, I hit CTRL-I. The ICH5R RAID utility comes up and says it sees a fixable error. It asks if the two disks showing are the ones that make up my RAID. I answer yes, and when I get the next menu...rather than telling it to fix it or rebuild it, etc, I EXIT. From then on...all works fine for several months. I had first thought it was my CMOS battery, but this happens well after the system has been turned on and has booted XP Pro SP3, so I do not believe, at that point, that I am using the CMOS Battery. Any ideas?
TIA
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