Abit IP35 Pro RAID setup

marcosscriven

marcosscriven

marcosscriven

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Hi

I have setup Vista 32 bit no problems on my Raptor. Everything working fine.

Now, I have added 4 250GB sata drives on SATA ports 3 - 6. I then chose to enable the Intel RAID controller, and selected RAID.

I then get the Ctrl-I setup menu, leave the raptor drive, and add the remaining 4 drives into a RAID5 setup.

Then windows will not start - it gets to the loading screen for a second or two, then I get a fleeting BSOD and it reboots. I thought I'd try a windows repair, but nothing I do with allow it to boot from the windows DVD.

When I turn the SATA controller back to IDE everything works fine again, and I can boot from the Vista DVD (not that I then need to).

So what am I doing wrong?!

I've installed the latest Intel Matrix drivers

EDIT - FYI I am using the latest v14 bios
 
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Are you using using the RAID for storage or are you trying to install an OS onto them?
 
I'm not sure then.

I found out at the w-end that I could't boot an OS from ports 5 and 6 on my P35 DS3P and got the same BSOD at the loading screen as you are getting.

However I have no issues booting an OS from the first 4 ports even with a drive connected to 5 and 6.
 
Have you tried enabling RAID but disconnecting the 4 hard drives to see if Vista will boot?

Also try booting Vista from ports 5 and then 6 to see what happens.
 
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