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MB incompatibility or driver issue?

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I've been using a Promise 8350 RAID card in my workstation for about 3 years now without any issues. I recently upgraded my setup and tried to put the card into my new i7 box, with an ASUS P6T Deluxe MB and an i7-920. When I put the card it, I can't boot Windows. I can see the card in the BIOS and access the card's BIOS, so it's getting power, but it's not happy in Windows 7 x64 Professional.

Any suggestions? I put the card back into the old box along with the drives and had no problem accessing the array in the old box. So I backed up the array to an external drive and then copied the data into the new box.

I'd like to use the card and Promise appears to have drivers for the card that are x64 compatible, but I can't even get to the desktop with the card in the system.

Does it matter which slot the card goes into? The card is x4, and I have an x4 slot at the top of the MB (closest to the CPU), but I also have two x16 slots down lower. I can't get it to boot into windows in the x4 slot or in the lowest x16 slot (video card is in the top x16 slot).
 
Promise cards are not know for good drivers, performance or reliability.

Any suggestions?
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Did you try booting the windows 7 box with no drives connected to the card.
 
Yes, I can't boot into Windows even with no drives attached to the card.

If I ditch the Promise card, any suggestions on what to replace it with?
 
If you want your data off the RAID, boot Ubuntu while connecting your disks to a non-RAID controller, like your motherboard controller in AHCI mode. The Ubuntu livecd does not require installation! You should be able to access your data right away (places->home->click "..GB filesystem") and transfer over the network or to another local disk.

After you got your data off, you can create a new intel RAID array and use the drives there; the Intel RAID drivers as MUCH better.
 
Try to disable the MB raid function in th BIOS

Also make sure the slot that card goes to has enough lanes the card required

The spec of PCI E are:x16x16x1 or x16x8x8
Are you use any of 16x slot? if so be ware of the lanes
 
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