Sabretoth 990FX - Cant setup RAID?

[FatRakoon]

Got a stupid issue here.
Ok its probably me, and it usually is, but up until a few weeks ago, this setup was running RAID just fine.

The Basics we need to know, are simply that I have 4 HJard drives, 2xSSD and 2xHD

I want to have :-

2 X SSD ( 60GB Each ) in STRIPED mode, to give me the 120GB for C:

2 x HD ( 2TB Each ) STRIPED to give a 4TB drive that I will then format for C: D: and E:

Obviously, I know about the disk sizes and partitioning etc, so please its not about that.

I have been doing some playing about the last couple of weeks on this PC and now I want to set it up and sort it out to start playing on one of my others, but, I just cannot get it to do RAID at all???

In the BIOS, I have chosen RAID on all the controlers, and they go just fine.

It then loses the drives as I would expect but the RAID info does not show up?
I know that I can also press CTRL+F to get into the BIOS Setup page, but this does nothing? I have also tried a number of other possible options that other motherboards use like CTRL+ Various keys on ALT+Whatever? and also I have gone through various other random let-me-ins but nothing has got me even close to somethign like a RAID setup screen?

I am at a loss.

I have previously run this board with RAID you see, and I had ZERO issues, but now???

Please help?

Oh, and yeah, latest BIOS etc etc

 

[FatRakoon]

Ok, I have now even gone and tried to install windows onto this board with only one SSD in it, in RAID mode.

I know the one Drive wont be RAIDed with anything, but I need to setup the RAID anyway even if I just wanted to RAID the 2x2TB Drives, but no. nothing?

Im going nuts???

Ok there are 3 controlers, and 8 ports.

SATA 0-3 - Brown
SATA 4-5 - Brown
SATA 6-7 - White

I have setup 0-3 as RAID and this then makes 4-5 as RAID also.
I am booting from a UEFI formatted USB Drive ( also tried normal - same difference )

They fail to find anything.

I have tried many combinations of keypressed to get me into the RAID setup page, but this is not happening? I am genuinnely at a total loss.

 

[FatRakoon]

Thanks mate... Any help is better than no help, so no worries.

Yes, I have done the Windows software RAID and sure enough, its an idea, but its not what I want to do.

What is getting to me, is that the BIOS lets me select between IDE AHCI and RAID, but when in RAID mode, the setup page cannot be brought up, and nor does it see any drives at all anyway?

Even if I just want to use a single SSD and the 2x2TB, I have no luck.

I have even tried to have them connected to the 2 other ports and again, they dont show up in that either? Im at a complete loss.

I am inches away from giving up on the idea... Shame because this Mobo ( yes, it is the R2.0 ) is quite simply the best Motherboard that I have EVER found bar none.

I was also inches away from getting a Sabretooth for the Intels, but I never did.

 

[FatRakoon]

Yes, thats the screen I want, but no, nothing.

I have of course setup the BIOS to slow boot, and the USB keyboard has tons of time to kick in, otherwise I would not have got into the BIOS.