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nheather

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This morning my PC locked up - wouldn't get past the BIOS splash screen.

Eventually I decided that it must be something to do with the overclock and cleared the BIOS.

This got it to start and I put the BIOS back to how it was but with a less agressive overclock for now.

But when it boots up I now get a screen between the splash and the DMI pool listing which I'm sure wasn't there before.

It's largely blank with a title something like SATA\IDE RAID Utility by jmicron and then a message

Detecting drives done. None drives found.


I have two SATA drives and in the BIOS the drives are set to IDE rather than RAID.

The mobo is an abit IP35.

It's possible this screen has always been there but I'm sure I would have noticed it before.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Nigel
 
Try setting boot config to cd only. (i.e cd as first, then disable the rest). then let it try to find a cd to boot from, then it will tell you no disk etc.

Then reboot, change the BIOS boot priority back to hard drive, try it now.

My board does this sometimes when trying for too hard an OC. If that doesn't fix it, I don't know. :)
 
nheather said:
This morning my PC locked up - wouldn't get past the BIOS splash screen.

Eventually I decided that it must be something to do with the overclock and cleared the BIOS.

This got it to start and I put the BIOS back to how it was but with a less agressive overclock for now.

But when it boots up I now get a screen between the splash and the DMI pool listing which I'm sure wasn't there before.

It's largely blank with a title something like SATA\IDE RAID Utility by jmicron and then a message

Detecting drives done. None drives found.


I have two SATA drives and in the BIOS the drives are set to IDE rather than RAID.

The mobo is an abit IP35.

It's possible this screen has always been there but I'm sure I would have noticed it before.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Nigel
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Chances are that screen was always there. I get it too. I think it only lists the drives if they are in a RAID configuration.
 
Chances are that screen was always there. I get it too. I think it only lists the drives if they are in a RAID configuration.
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Thanks. Think you are right. I've turned off 1394 (e-SATA) and that didn't make a difference.

The disks are there are work fine.

Probably just never noticed it before.

Cheers,

Nigel
 
I have an Asus P5Q series and on them there is a Marvell controller for the extra 2 SATA's that are dedicated to Asus own brand of RAID - it was this that had to be disabled in BIOS to stop that splash screen showing up.

You'll need to look through your BIOS and find your own version of this to disable it if it really bothers you, as it shouldn't actually cause a problem. It will have been resetting the BIOS which re-enabled it (as a default setting) and hence why you are seeing it now.
 
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