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serbiaNem
12-02-2008, 02:50 AM
I was hoping one of the geniuses here could help me out with a problem I'm having.

I just built a new computer with the following specs:

Q6600
Asus P5Q Pro
1x Samsung 22x SATA on Intel Controller
1x WD Raptor 150 on Intel
2x Hitachi 1TB on Intel
2x Maxtor 250GB on Intel
1x Seagate 300GB on Marvell
AMD 4830
Antec 1kW PSU

Here is the issue.. When the SATA setting is set to IDE in the bios, all is well and windows installs perfectly and detects all of the drives, even on the Marvell controller after drivers are installed.

I want to keep my single raptor as my OS drive, but I want to raid 0 my two Hitachi drives like I had them before while also raid 0ing my Maxtors. So I go into the bios and set SATA to raid. I configure the Intel bios to raid 0 the hitachi drives and raid 1 the maxtors.

I go to install windows x64 sp1 (original disc) and i get a blue screen right at Setup is entering windows at the very beginning. The first stop error is 0x0000007B. I even went and put my floppy in to try and load the raid drivers, same issue after loading the drivers.

So I disconnect everything other than my DVD (sata, could this be a problem?).. still the blue screen. I try switching up which sata port it's on.. nothing. I try updating my bios to the latest... nothing... I check if 32-bit has the same problem.... it does.. I try disabling the Marvell controller... nothing. I try taking out one stick of ram... nothing. I try putting the 8-pin power connector instead of the 4-pin.... nothing

But changing the setting back to IDE fixes the problem immediately. What could possibly be going wrong with the RAID configuration?

I'm really at my wit's end here. Is this just some obscure windows glitch? Could slipstreaming a new service pack fix the problem? You have no idea the gratitude you will get from me if you can find me a solution.

QUICK UPDATE: A bootleg version of x64 with SP2 does the same thing.

alamone
12-02-2008, 12:05 PM
All that means is that the raid drivers arent installed, causing BSOD.

Your options are:

1) Hit F6 when it asks you to load 3rd party raid drivers, and
have the raid drivers (intel matrix i assume) on a floppy disk.
USB floppy doesn't work - has to be standard floppy.
Vista has improved this by letting you install drivers from any
connectable device (USB, DVD, etc).

2) Slipstream a disc with the raid driver already there.
Try using e.g. nLite.

When setup gets to the probing the disks stage, it tries to probe
the RAIDs but doesn't have the proper driver and BSODs.
That's basically what's happening, and why IDE works
because IDE emulation can just use the generic IDE driver.

serbiaNem
12-02-2008, 03:10 PM
I already tried making the floppy with the drivers, it still BSODs. What I ended up doing was putting my raptor on the marvell controller and booting off of it to windows. I then installed the raid drivers for the intel controller and moved the raptor back. For some reason the f6 floppy drivers didn't help.

Thanks for the advice though.