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Overclocking and RAID

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babochee

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I would just post a thread for this specific board but the same problems has come up with my past two setups. My old Gigabyte EP45-UD3P and my newer ASUS P6X58D Premium.

I can not for the life of me to get a stable boot to windows with raid enabled. Im trying to run a simple RAID0 array with 2 WD drives and it always restarts at the "Starting Windows" screen. I cant overclock @ all and get a stable boot. Im running windows7 64bit.

Is a raid array out of the question with overclocks? What could I be doing wrong? Do i need to purchase a seperate raid card to make this happen? Hope not, my two 5870's take up all the room =((
Thanks!
 
Odd, something not set right in bios/raid setup, lack of preinstall drivers anyway it seems a configuration issue. .

After the OS install there should be no issue, a zillion people run with an OC and raid 0.

It is some Win7 driver issue or raid setup issue or other bios setting that is eluding you. It should work. I tend to want to think something else is the problem.

With the limited info you gave the first question I had is , where you able to get a good install and OC and stablity (run it at least a week OCed with no issues) installing windows to just one drive ?

Not up on win7 but there should be some what to enable boot logging, BSOD and event viewer so you can see what is crapping out instead of the "reboot on system failure" option that is apparently on.
 
Are you creating the raid then installing windows? If you do it the other way around you are going to run in to issues as Windows is trying to load a non-raid driver.

I'd start from scratch. Create the raid then install windows manually installing the raid drivers when asked during setup. Usually F6 right before it starts loading all the default drivers. Give that a shot.

Otherwise, some other type of PEBKAC issue.
 
Firstly, make sure you have set up your array in BIOS. Consult your manual or Google for more info on that. THEN, you need to install windows on that RAID array and since you are using Windows 7 you shouldn't need to manually load any drivers. Install it with only one video card and double check your set up.

Post your complete system specs..
 
Thanks for all the info so far.
Im running win7 64 on
Sapphire 5870 (900/1300) Right now im running one.
I7 920@3780 (180X21)
ASUS P6X58D Premium
2x Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
and 1 Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2
Rosewill BRONZE series RBR1000-M 1000W

I have my OS loaded in the ssd.. I was going to load all my programs and games on the raid 0. If you need any other info plz ask.

I also have one other problem overclocking or not... it seems my system freezes in games. It happened with my old build. Basically no matter if it is HoN, WoW, WiC, DoD.... no matter the game (and it only happens in games) and it could take days or hours or minutes to happen the screen freezes with all grey or black vertical strips. Could this be a power issue or is my card broken? Or what? Ive reformatted and replaced EVERYTHING but my psu, vga and hhds. Though the card worked fine in my shuttle setup, never had a problem.
Thanks!
Ok update on the freezing.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/276351-33-display-freezes-vertical-lines-minutes-gaming-5870
Guess maybe the card is overheating? O_O gonna play with the fan maxed @ 80% and see if it happens again.
 
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Oh I have windows installed and everything on my ssd.. Im trying to make the raid after the fact. I set everything up in bios to boot with the array made. I just cant get past the starting windows screen. Am i going to have to have the OS on the raid array?
 
how big is your power supply? i had issues where the computer wasn't stable at stock speeds with a 9800gt and q6600 underclocked/volted to 1ghz... power supply was/is too small.
 
babochee said:
Oh I have windows installed and everything on my ssd.. Im trying to make the raid after the fact. I set everything up in bios to boot with the array made. I just cant get past the starting windows screen. Am i going to have to have the OS on the raid array?
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You should make your array in the BIOS and then install Windows on the SSD. When you do it the other way around Windows is trying to load drivers for legacy SATA when it should be loading RAID drivers instead. That's why Windows is crashing/BSOD'ing on you. The SSD is moot.
 
viper650 said:
how big is your power supply? i had issues where the computer wasn't stable at stock speeds with a 9800gt and q6600 underclocked/volted to 1ghz... power supply was/is too small.
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Rosewill BRONZE series RBR1000-M 1000W


Ok beautiful... reformatting the ssd again =(( thx for all the help! If there is another way please shoot something my direction, I dont want to reformat the sdd again >_<
 
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