Hi, hope you can help!
I have an ASUS A8N SLi Premium motherboard running 2 186GB HDD's in a RAID1 array that was working OK.
The system won’t boot, and if you will excuse the long explanation, here is what happens:
On boot-up, the ASUS splash screen appears. Then the RIAD BIOS as follows:
Sil3114 SATA RAID Bios Version 5.1.39
Copyright 1997-2004 Silicon Image, Inc.
Press <Ctrl-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility
0 ST3200822AS 186Gb
1 ST3200822AS 186Gb
No Valide deivce! (this is how it is spelt) Press any key to continue
Or
Press <Ctrl-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility
The Boot then continues, listing the drives as:
Diskette Drive A
Primary Master DVD-RW ATA33
Primary Slave CD-RW ATA33
Secondary master none
Secondary Slave none
In the RAID utility, the two physical drives are listed but the entry under Logical Drive says “Invalid RAID drive”.
The keyboard stops working here, so I cannot toggle down the options.
My Windows Boot Disk won’t work, with the error message:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware” Please check the Windows documentation etc.
The system Bios is accessible and when I check the Hard Disk Drives it shows the only entry as Bootable Add –in cards
By the way, after a few seconds even in system Bios, the keyboard then stops working. It’s a Bluetooth Logitech wireless.
Before I try ANYTHING, I thought I’d ask as I don’t want to lose the Hard Disk data and this sounds like a RAID driver / BIOS or system BIOS problem?
Cheers
I have an ASUS A8N SLi Premium motherboard running 2 186GB HDD's in a RAID1 array that was working OK.
The system won’t boot, and if you will excuse the long explanation, here is what happens:
On boot-up, the ASUS splash screen appears. Then the RIAD BIOS as follows:
Sil3114 SATA RAID Bios Version 5.1.39
Copyright 1997-2004 Silicon Image, Inc.
Press <Ctrl-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility
0 ST3200822AS 186Gb
1 ST3200822AS 186Gb
No Valide deivce! (this is how it is spelt) Press any key to continue
Or
Press <Ctrl-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility
The Boot then continues, listing the drives as:
Diskette Drive A
Primary Master DVD-RW ATA33
Primary Slave CD-RW ATA33
Secondary master none
Secondary Slave none
In the RAID utility, the two physical drives are listed but the entry under Logical Drive says “Invalid RAID drive”.
The keyboard stops working here, so I cannot toggle down the options.
My Windows Boot Disk won’t work, with the error message:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware” Please check the Windows documentation etc.
The system Bios is accessible and when I check the Hard Disk Drives it shows the only entry as Bootable Add –in cards
By the way, after a few seconds even in system Bios, the keyboard then stops working. It’s a Bluetooth Logitech wireless.
Before I try ANYTHING, I thought I’d ask as I don’t want to lose the Hard Disk data and this sounds like a RAID driver / BIOS or system BIOS problem?
Cheers
