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W7 x64 and RAID issues

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Phenom02

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I've ran into a situation that's about to make me pull my hair out and I really hope that someone would be willing to help me if at all possible. It amazes me that as long as Windows 7 has been out that We still have these kind of problems. I've been trying to install a copy of W7 64 bit and no matter what I do I can't get it to see the RAID0 array that i have built. I've tried every driver out there and I keep getting the unsigned driver message. I've even flashed the bios on my asus m3a79t deluxe mobo thinking that it might then recognize the array, but no luck. Should I try to use 32 bit drivers??? im stumped:mad:
 
Sounds like your raid controller does not have WHQL support drivers...or boot drivers available.
One option is to install to drive on a standard controller, load whql drivers for the raid, then ghost the OS partition to the raid volume.

Other than that, you have to find WHQL boot drivers.

There is actually a host of good reasons why MS made it that way...give protection from bad things like root kits (MS is not going to grant WHQL to rootkit hardware abstraction layers.)
 
Try slipstreaming the drivers to a bootable USB device with Windows 7.
 
You can use use RTSe7en Lite to integrate the drivers. In the past I've read some things saying AMD does not support 'F6' or 'Load Drivers' with their South Bridge Raid Drivers anymore. I've had to extract them from the setup file, then integrate then with nLite (in the case of XP). I'm assuming the same works with Vista/7, thus use RTSe7en Lite.
 
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I've installed many copies of Windows 7 x64 on Intel and JMicron controllers in both RAID 0 and RAID 1 and have not had a single issue. Disappointing to see the AMD boards are not supported. I would have to think you could get the driver on a flash drive and load them from that during the install. Unless they are compressed in an installer and can't be extracted.
 
xxEIEIOxx said:
I've installed many copies of Windows 7 x64 on Intel and JMicron controllers in both RAID 0 and RAID 1 and have not had a single issue. Disappointing to see the AMD boards are not supported. I would have to think you could get the driver on a flash drive and load them from that during the install. Unless they are compressed in an installer and can't be extracted.
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Yeah, this should be more than possible. Alot of my 3rd party hardware cards have required this and it has been done w/o issue.

Most onboard motherboards all have support natively though unless you're trying a very very old board.

Definitely don't try 32bit drivers, waste of your time.
 
xxEIEIOxx said:
I've installed many copies of Windows 7 x64 on Intel and JMicron controllers in both RAID 0 and RAID 1 and have not had a single issue. Disappointing to see the AMD boards are not supported. I would have to think you could get the driver on a flash drive and load them from that during the install. Unless they are compressed in an installer and can't be extracted.
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They're .inf files and this is the way that I've been working with it. I've been putting them on a flash drive and opening them when it asks me where do I want to install Windows. Every single time I get the message saying that I need to provide a "signed" RAID driver in order to install the 64bit version. I never had any issues with the 32bit version. weird.

Guess I will have give RTSe7en Lite a try next, thanks.
 
Here's something I found, a .zip folder with SB700 RAID drivers. Not sure if you've tried it:

http://www.deploymentzone.com/2010/03/25/amd-sb700-raid-drivers/

Apparently it got his Windows 7 x64 setup process to recognize the RAID array. I can't tell you if it works or not because my chipset is different, but I can tell you the download is clean. I downloaded it, scanned it, extracted it, then scanned the extracted folder and it's totally clean. So the only risk is that your Windows setup still won't recognize the array.

I'm not sure how you've been trying to install, but take the contents from the folder "RAID7xx", the contents being two folders and 4 files (including a read me):

-x64 (a folder)
-x86 (a folder)
-ahcix64 (a file)
-ahcix86 (a file)
-readme.txt (text file obviously)
-txtsetup.oem (a file)

and put those on the root of the flash drive you'll be using. I don't know if you've been taking files out from the x64 or x86 folders and putting them right on the flash drive, but don't do that. Just take the contents of the download I linked to and copy everything I listed above directly to the flash drive. The driver install files can be touchy if everything isn't in the specific location its looking for, which is why it would give you problems if you try taking files out of the x64 folder or something and thinking they'll work if you put them right on the flash drive. If you were making that mistake, that's what might have been keeping Windows from recognizing the RAID setup in the first place. You can even just take the extracted folder "RAID7xx" itself and put it right on the flash drive, you should be able to navigate to it during Windows install.

Keep us updated, please :)
 
Phenom02 said:
Every single time I get the message saying that I need to provide a "signed" RAID driver in order to install the 64bit version. I never had any issues with the 32bit version. weird.

Guess I will have give RTSe7en Lite a try next, thanks.
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Makes sense, 64 bit requires signed drivers, even if they are signed by the manufacturer and not Microsoft.
 
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