Can't boot windows with Raid, help!

[bandit390]

I have three hdd's: 74gb raptor and two WD640's using windows XP and Gigabyte P35. I have my raptor as my boot drive and just got my two 640 hdds. I want to leave the raptor as my boot drive and use the other two for raid 1.

I enable raid in the bios and set up raid in the bios. Gives me raid passes, they are set, all the good stuff. Until windows boots. I see the windows logo for a split second with no bars going across, then I see the blue screen and my PC resets. So I disable raid and now everything is back to normal, minus my raid. I have gone back and forth a couple of times and always get the same result.

Suggestions?

 

[nitrobass24]

Since your using the onboard raid its a fakeraid...all the work done by the cpu...you could just do a RAID1 from inside windows and have windows manage it...this way if your board fails or you get a new computer you can just stick it in and windows recognizes it.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Turn off the "reboot on crash" option; I don't remember exactly where it is, but it's under the System control panel applet IIRC. Then report more specifics about the crash.

You probably need to install the RAID-specific drivers before enabling RAID.

 

[nitrobass24]

Turn off the "reboot on crash" option; I don't remember exactly where it is, but it's under the System control panel applet IIRC. Then report more specifics about the crash.

You probably need to install the RAID-specific drivers before enabling RAID.

I wouldnt think he would need raid-specifc drivers if hes not booting from the raid volume?
Also maybe by enabling raid its putting the Sata ports in AHCI mode...if that is the case then you will need to reinstall with AHCI drivers.

 

[bandit390]

Turn off the "reboot on crash" option; I don't remember exactly where it is, but it's under the System control panel applet IIRC. Then report more specifics about the crash.

You probably need to install the RAID-specific drivers before enabling RAID.

I don't see that option anywhere.

But I did update to the newest bios. Reinstalled the drivers for the motherboard. I tried two other sata ports on the mb. Also if I just enable raid in the bios and not actually create raid with my hdd's, I get the same error.

So does it sound more like a motherboard problem? Any other suggestions?

 

[Michael Daly]

Does that MB have an Intel ICHx controller? If so, then it's a simple problem - Intel does not guarantee that you can change the BIOS setting from IDE or AHCI to RAID after installing Windows. The result is a BSOD.

You can re-install Windows to fix this, but I understand there are some work-arounds that can work. I don't know what they are but if you search these forums, you'll see some responses that point to web sites that describe the solution.

If it's not an Intel ICHx controller, this doesn't apply.