Figure this one out

Gerard · 7 Aug 2013 at 02:12

Day or so back my PC refused to boot, it basically just stuck at the windows loading logo, I've now narrowed it down to 2x 150 raptor drives. Whenever these are connected the system flat out refuses to boot despite the fact they're just storage drives, even trying to get into start-up repair with these connected is mission impossible as it'll either throw up a "bad pool caller" error or literally just sit on the windows globe logo and do nothing else.

The system as it was configured is a corsair ssd for windows, 2x300 gig velociraptors in raid 0 and 2x 150 raptor x drives not raided. I've tried different sata connectors, different power connections and even swapped around what ports the drives are plugged into and nothing seems to work. Makes no difference if I use my overclocked settings or default the problem remains exactly the same. :confused:

Really no idea what has caused this, typical pc issue of one day working fine, next day for no reason whatsoever its went wonky.

Gerard · 7 Aug 2013 at 18:30

Any ideas. I'm pretty sure ive tried everything I can try at this point. Changing from raid mode to achi or ide stops the boot totally as the OS is no longer found on the corsair force gt.

Seems to me the motherboard is the most likely culprit.

Idleman · 7 Aug 2013 at 18:41

Whenever these are connected the system flat out refuses to boot despite the fact they're just storage drives, even trying to get into start-up repair with these connected is mission impossible as it'll either throw up a "bad pool caller" error or literally just sit on the windows globe logo and do nothing else.

From this a lone, I would be looking at one or both of the Raptors being at fault.
So, with either one or both installed, the system can`t get into windows?
Do you have another machine you can test them in?

Gerard · 7 Aug 2013 at 21:51

Idleman said:
From this a lone, I would be looking at one or both of the Raptors being at fault.
So, with either one or both installed, the system can`t get into windows?
Do you have another machine you can test them in?

Not at the moment, just going to have to remove them for the time being, they show in bios and in the raid config, just seems odd that when windows tries to boot with them connected it doesn't work.

Idleman · 7 Aug 2013 at 22:02

Gerard said:
Not at the moment, just going to have to remove them for the time being, they show in bios and in the raid config, just seems odd that when windows tries to boot with them connected it doesn't work.

You could try UBCD and run a diagnostic on the Raptors.

Gerard · 8 Aug 2013 at 02:37

Idleman said:
You could try UBCD and run a diagnostic on the Raptors.

I'll give that a try in the next day or 2 to see what happens, though seeing as the windows cd couldn't even get into its setup im guessing ubcd won't be able to either.