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Hi,
I've not had my IP35 pro long (coming from a badaxe 2) but I immediately hit a snag.
I have a Dell Perc 4e/DC in my machine that I boot from and then 4 drives (configured as 2 RAID 0 arrays) on the ICH9R.
It doesn't matter if I have the Perc at the top of the 'Hard Disk' boot order list or at the bottom, it still won't boot from it. I've tried with ICH9R set to 'AHCI' and 'RAID', same problem.
If I unplug the drives from the ICH9R, it boots fine. I can even plug them in again after the AHCI/ICH9R bios has kicked in and windows can still access them - but of course that has to be done every time I switch the PC on or reboot it - hardly an ideal situation to be in!
So what can I do to make this board work as it's supposed to? I never had any problems like this with my Bad Axe (1 or 2), it just worked straight off.
I did however notice that the Intel board used to load the Perc bios BEFORE the ICH7R one. This new abit board does ICH9R first and then the Perc - so I guess ICH9R gets priority (which is really not what I want to happen).
I think abit could learn a lot from Intel actually when it comes to boot options in the bios. The intel one was much easier to work with and far more reliable in this department. I also miss the F12 boot menu that meant I could boot from a USB pen (or any other bootable device) without actually having to change the bios settings every time I plugged one in.
I've not had my IP35 pro long (coming from a badaxe 2) but I immediately hit a snag.
I have a Dell Perc 4e/DC in my machine that I boot from and then 4 drives (configured as 2 RAID 0 arrays) on the ICH9R.
It doesn't matter if I have the Perc at the top of the 'Hard Disk' boot order list or at the bottom, it still won't boot from it. I've tried with ICH9R set to 'AHCI' and 'RAID', same problem.
If I unplug the drives from the ICH9R, it boots fine. I can even plug them in again after the AHCI/ICH9R bios has kicked in and windows can still access them - but of course that has to be done every time I switch the PC on or reboot it - hardly an ideal situation to be in!
So what can I do to make this board work as it's supposed to? I never had any problems like this with my Bad Axe (1 or 2), it just worked straight off.
I did however notice that the Intel board used to load the Perc bios BEFORE the ICH7R one. This new abit board does ICH9R first and then the Perc - so I guess ICH9R gets priority (which is really not what I want to happen).
I think abit could learn a lot from Intel actually when it comes to boot options in the bios. The intel one was much easier to work with and far more reliable in this department. I also miss the F12 boot menu that meant I could boot from a USB pen (or any other bootable device) without actually having to change the bios settings every time I plugged one in.