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Sound the raid alarm for this noob. MSI Neo2 **Fixed**

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phillik747

Junior Member
I would first like to say thank you for all of your help. This fourm has been a life saver just as a reader but now the time has come for me to post, for I have not found a similar problem.

I think this problem has something to do with using sata slots 3/4. I have a RAID 0 setup with twin Samsung 160gb HDD. What is happening is when the system is rebooted either from windows, alt+ctrl+del, or rebooted from the bios the system will hang after the memory test and will not show the ?Detecting IDE Devices? and lights 1 and 3 on the D-bracket will be amber (red). It will sit there for about 10 sec then reboot in to a ?post loop.? Now if I unplug one or both of the sata drives from the Mobo the system will post just fine but of course not load into windows. At first I thought it was a PSU problem but I have ruled that out by using different PSU. It is also not a memory problem because I have tried different sticks. The system ran fine until I tried RAID 0. It will however boot fine from a cold boot and also if I move the SATA cables from the SATA 3/4 slots to the SATA 1/2 slots and change the setting in the BIOS to use RAID 0 on SATA 1/2. But I would rather not use the SATA 1/2 slots because I plan on overclocking and I hear bad things with overclocking using the SATA 1/2 slots. I just can't get the system to post after doing a reboot using RAID on SATA 3/4. Do you think it could be my RAID drivers (floppy that came in the box) if so am I doomed to reinstall the entire OS just to update the RAID drivers? How do I get it to post using the sata 3/4 slots?

Thank you
Kyle
 
Explain to me how a driver could cause problem at POST time.. A driver is loaded at windows boot. I would try to update the BIOS first. If not, then maybe some kind of resident code remain active at reset and cause problem for the next boot. When doing a cold boot, all resident code is erased from memory and allow it to boot normally.
 
Humm.. Did you create an array for RAID or just plugged 2 HDD and set the thing to RAID and let go? Because controller set to RAID and not usied as such can cause that kind of error.
 
Thank you grooge for the help.

Did you create an array for RAID...?
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Yes I enabled raid in the BIOS and then set it up in the Nvidia RAID utility. With the raid mode in striping and moved the disks over to the array disk window. (I hope I'm making sense). But it shows up as a RAID 0 in windows with the RAID manager.

Explain to me how a driver could cause problem at POST time...
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I can't, I'm smoking crack on that one...

I have tried re-flashing the BIOS with 1.B using a fat 32 hdd but that didn?t seems to help. I guess I could try downgrading to an older BIOS to see if that fixes it.

Kyle
 
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