Trying to Set Up Raid 1

[the.ronin]

I’m trying to set up a hardware Raid 1 array between 2 WD 500GB hard drives using the built-in controller in my motherboard (Gigabye GA-MA785G-UD3H) running Windows 7 Pro x64. The purpose of the array is purely for storage and not as the boot drive with the OS.

I get past the post screen, the raid screen, and the windows logo screen but then it just reboots and goes into this cycle endlessly.

The way I set up the array was as follows:

1) I had just the 2 hard drives plugged into the SATA2_3 and SATA2_2.

2) I went into Bios Setup and in Integrated Peripherals, set the SATA Type to RAID and the OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type to As SATA Type.

3) I saved the Bios changes and rebooted.

4) After the Post screen, the Raid screen came up and I hit CTRL-F to enter the RAID setup.

5) I proceeded to create a new array (Define LD) setting it up as a Raid 1 assigning the two drives.

6) Back in the main Raid setup menu, I viewed the Drive Assignments and confirmed that the two drives were assigned.

7) I saved changes and rebooted turning off the computer at the Post screen.

8) I replugged the OS and user profile drives.

9) I turned the computer back on.

10) I get to the post screen where it no longer lists the detected IDE drives and moves on to the RAID screen where it scans the drives. I get to the Windows logo screen and that’s when it blanks out and reboots.

Some other notes:

* My OS hard drive is an OCZ Vertex SSD in SATA2_0 and user profiles and docs are kept on a WD Raptor in SATA2_1. I tried setting up the array with these drives plugged in initially with the same boot / reboot cycle occurring. The optical drive remained plugged into SATA2_5. The only unused remaining plug is SATA2_4.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.