New build, raid 0 nightmare

Nevakonaza · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:00

Hey guys, just done a new, mobo, cpu and ram build and I'm trying to now install Windows 10.

I have configured raid 0 in the bios and the drives are initialised and ready it shows 499gb (2x 250gb ) Samsung evo 840 pros.

However Windows is just not detecting the drives on the install screen I've tried downloading the pre install drivers for raid from gigabytes website and also put in the disk which comes with the board and none of the drivers are suitable it says there are no signed drivers were found, so I'm stuck.

It's annoying because on my gigabyte Intel z77 setup it was a breeze worked fine.
New setup is Ryzen 2700x,gigabyte x470 aorus ultra gaming,and of course said the ssds above, really appreciate any help.

Vince · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:03

Nevakonaza said:
Hey guys, just done a new, mobo, cpu and ram build and I'm trying to now install Windows 10.

I have configured raid 0 in the bios and the drives are initialised and ready it shows 499gb (2x 250gb ) Samsung evo 840 pros.

However Windows is just not detecting the drives on the install screen I've tried downloading the pre install drivers for raid from gigabytes website and also put in the disk which comes with the board and none of the drivers are suitable it says there are no signed drivers were found, so I'm stuck.

It's annoying because on my gigabyte Intel z77 setup it was a breeze worked fine.
New setup is Ryzen 2700x,gigabyte x470 aorus ultra gaming,and of course said the ssds above, really appreciate any help.

Firmware issue with the evo 840 i'm afraid. I was trouble shooting this with a buddy a while back as I have mixed raid 0 on 3 different drives and he wanted to set it up with 2x 840's. Tried everything and in the end had a massive ticket with samsung and asus on it but the conclusion was that the drive firmware and chipset don't like each other. This was on a AM3+ chipset mind but we did replicate it on my x399 board.

Ill try and dig a link. As I say I found the issue on AM3 and we also tried the 840's in a tr4 rig with the same issue.

Nevakonaza · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:10

Ah that's what I was afraid of tbh because the x470 chipset is quite new ain't it, I guess il just have to see if it picks the drives up in a non raid configuration and just install Windows to 1 drive for now until things get worked out, if they do.

Thanks for your help.

Vince · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:16

Nevakonaza said:
Ah that's what I was afraid of tbh because the x470 chipset is quite new ain't it, I guess il just have to see if it picks the drives up in a non raid configuration and just install Windows to 1 drive for now until things get worked out, if they do.
Thanks for your help.

Will work fine on a single drive

It's just those particular drives and raid. We later tested the 850 and this worked fine on both the sb950 chipset and x399.

Vince · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:23

Ahh can't find the links or emails with samsung/asus but honestly we fought this one for a long time.

Jamin280672 · 19 Jun 2018 at 17:45

Vince said:
Ahh can't find the links or emails with samsung/asus but honestly we fought this one for a long time.

Just a stab in the dark, when you try to load the F6 driver as its known, are you loading them in the correct order, I had a nightmare with raid too on AM4, the driver comes in 3 parts, RC Bottom, RC RAID/store port, then RC config, they have to be loaded in that order if I remember right, its defo RC bottom first, it may be config next and then raid/store port, cant fully remember, at one point you will see the drives pop up if its working and then disappear again.

However after enabling RAID in the bios and configuring it there, when you boot into the Windows 10 setup, I see it as 2 drives, don't delete these partitions, they contain vital data, just proceed to load the F6 driver.

Finally, get the driver from the AMD website, not the Gigabyte website, they have just updated them (AMD RAID Driver (SATA RAID Only) 9.2.0.70) 717kb, stick them on a usb stick

https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows 10 - 64

Nevakonaza · 19 Jun 2018 at 18:08

Vince said:
Ahh can't find the links or emails with samsung/asus but honestly we fought this one for a long time.

Dont worry pal,appreciate it anyway just was really confused because the drives were initialised and appear to be ready to go but windows was just having none of it. :/

Jamin280672 said:
Just a stab in the dark, when you try to load the F6 driver as its known, are you loading them in the correct order, I had a nightmare with raid too on AM4, the driver comes in 3 parts, RC Bottom, RC RAID/store port, then RC config, they have to be loaded in that order if I remember right, its defo RC bottom first, it may be config next and then raid/store port, cant fully remember, at one point you will see the drives pop up if its working and then disappear again.

However after enabling RAID in the bios and configuring it there, when you boot into the Windows 10 setup, I see it as 2 drives, don't delete these partitions, they contain vital data, just proceed to load the F6 driver.

Finally, get the driver from the AMD website, not the Gigabyte website, they have just updated them (AMD RAID Driver (SATA RAID Only) 9.2.0.70) 717kb, stick them on a usb stick

https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows 10 - 64

I have no clue what order to do them in or what files i need a bit lost tbh lol,On my Z77 setup it was simple just set to raid,choose the disks you want then apply,Then simply launch windows setup and boom there it was 2 drives showing as one large one,right now i have windows on a single drive but it really is bothering me knowing theyre not in raid and will have to install apps across two seperate drives when disk 0 starts getting low :/

Vince · 19 Jun 2018 at 18:13

Nevakonaza said:
Dont worry pal,appreciate it anyway just was really confused because the drives were initialised and appear to be ready to go but windows was just having none of it. :/

I have no clue what order to do them in or what files i need a bit lost tbh lol,On my Z77 setup it was simple just set to raid,choose the disks you want then apply,Then simply launch windows setup and boom there it was 2 drives showing as one large one,right now i have windows on a single drive but it really is bothering me knowing theyre not in raid and will have to install apps across two seperate drives when disk 0 starts getting low :/

Here is a good test. Clone your Windows install onto another drive. Set up the raid if you can see it in Windows you have a shot at making it work. If you can't see it in disk manager as I suspect then your hitting the same issue we did. Samsung did conform to me that there was no fix for this at the time.

Nevakonaza · 19 Jun 2018 at 20:50

yeah just dont have another drive and its a lot of hassle,think il just either stick to one drive which i didn't want too,Or invest in a NVME drive maybe.just a bit crap really why it dont work its not like its an ancient drive the 840.

Nevakonaza · 20 Jun 2018 at 06:02

Jamin, your a star.. After a lot of frustration trying diffrent things finally got it to do raid 0 using those amd drivers you linked too and in the stages you said.

thank so much really appreciate it everyone