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EG45M-DS2H - RAID 1 is broken after wake up from sleep

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whiteowl:
I have problem with my mobo EG45M-DSH - when I put my system to sleep it goes all right, but after wake-up D: drive disappears (look at system specs below). When I look into device manager I see 3 drives (SSD+SAMSUNG+SAMSUNG) instead 2 (SSD + RAID1) !!!! After restart all is ok and I can see D: again (SSD + RAID1 in device manager). I tried hybernation instead of sleep (S3) and RAID was there after wake-up.
So it is clear that ONLY after wake-up from SLEEP RAID got broken ! - I need the sleep function because PC act like HTPC so I have to be able to wake up PC with my remote....
I tried even upgrade BIOS to F3d -- nothing.... (fairly same setup on INTEL board was OK).

GIGABYTE (or anyone), do you know what is wrong ????

New HTPC setup:
GIGABYTE EG45M-DS2H bios F2,
Intel C2D E5200 (2.5GHz),
2x1GB DDR2 RAM GEIL,
1x 64GB OCZ SSD (C: drive - system)
 + 2x750GB SAMSUNG SATA in RAID1 on Intel  Matrix (D: drive - data),
PCI-Ex1 Terratec 2400i (dual DVB-T TV card),
D-LINK wifi-n 547 PCI card,
USB LG DVD-RW,
430W seasonic (power supply),
27" LCD TV 1280x720 (DVI to integrated graphics),
Windows VISTA x32 Ultimate SP1

runn3R:
Hi whiteowl

please install new Intel RAID drivers :

v. 8.5.0.1032 from Gigabyte website

if above will not help then install the driver (Intel Matrix Storage Manager v. 8.6.0.1007) taken from Intel website

whiteowl:
8.6.0.1007 installed right after Vista install

runn3R:
please check what is required voltage of your GEIL memory and then set the MB's voltage according to this (BIOS setup -> M.I.T. -> DRAM Voltage)

good luck

whiteowl:
So, finally solved (somewhat).
I tried really everything: swaping mobo(same type), bios settings, voltages, new RAMs, new power supply, reinstal... Nothing ! Then I removed OCZ Core SSD, made RAID1 from those 2 Samsungs and split to C and D drive. Everything was ok, finally!
I then read some complains on Core SSDs regarding write speeds of more small files at the same time. Sometimes it freezes the system for second or two too. So it could be the problem: after wake up this SSD is unable to hande workload and maybe blocks raid drivers to load or something ....
Men, I really hate this side of "new technology". They let it out into the public and don't have it thoroughly tested ? Arrgh....  >:(
Nevermind...acording to Anandtech only current SSD capable of being vista system drive is Intel SSDs (fu*king pricey by the way), Samsung's and hopefully future OCZ V3 SSDs (better controller and onboard cache).
So thats all - I hope it saves sameone these troubles.

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