GA-P67A-UD3R - i7 2600 - Problem installing Win 7 64-bit under RAID0

[jimip]

Hi,

I have just built this PC...

GA-P67A-UD3R(rev. 1.0)
Intel i7 2600 3.4Ghz
GIGABYTE  9600GT
8GB  2000mhz
2 x 1 TB Hitachi SATA HDD  
Win 7 64-bit
Thermalright HR2, Zalman Case

 and am totally bummed cause I cant manage to install operating system under RAID.

I have followed the steps detailed in the motherboard manual exactly. After setting BIOS "PCH SATA Control Mode" set to "RAID" and configuring the drives the RAID disk appear in the previous ACHI BIOS load page but when I get the the "Loading Operating System" it just hangs. I tried the same method under XHD mode with the same results.

When SATA mode is set to IDE the operating system installs and runs perfectly.

Has anyone else come accross this problem? Any ideas

Cheers,
Jimi

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

A couple of questions to start with.

What type of RAID are you trying to run ?

What ports do you have the drives connected to ?

What size PSU are you using ?

Have you loaded all the chipset drivers including the RAID drivers ?

[DemoniK]

Also,
Which CD/DVD/BD Drive are you using, and which port is it plugged into.

e.g. I have a Sony BD-ROM drive and I have this issue. But my newer Liteon works perfectly.
I suspect it's because the optical drives were just switching to SATA around the time I purchased and thus it's really an IDE drive with a SATA front end which causes the chipset issues.

[Dark Mantis]

I suspect it's because the optical drives were just switching to SATA around the time I purchased and thus it's really an IDE drive with a SATA front end which causes the chipset issues.

I would agree with your thinking on this issue and that would support the problems that often happen with these drives when on a controller configured to AHCI mode also.

[jimip]

thanks for the responses...

DemoniK is on the money.. I switched to a Pioneer CD/DVD drive and its installed on a RAID0 volume no-problem..

If anyone else is having this issue i think this:

                if possible make sure your optical drive is on a different channel to the RAID array 
     
       and if it still still happens try switching to a different (proper SATA) optical drive

Thanks a heap DemoniK!!

[jimip]

Oh, and if you're a dumb-ass like me make sure you remove your driver loaded thumb drive after loading the drivers!!!

i think that caught me out on a couple of attempts and I put it down to other issues cause I was getting flustered..

[Trinitrotoluene]

Have you loaded all the chipset drivers including the RAID drivers ?

Hopefully you guys don't mind me hijacking this thread a bit here.


Pre-loading drivers before installing windows, isn't that a thing of the past? I didn't have to do it (also on raid0 etc.). I thought nowadays it's all on-chip so to say. But still I read a lot of things about pre-loading stuff. Also on the Gigabyte drivers section it mentions pre-load drivers for download.

I don't have any problems though, just wondering

[Dark Mantis]

As you say a lot of the old way of having to load things manually first etc has really gone but it does often give you more control  if you prefer to use one driver over another. Good case in point is the MSAHCI and the Intel RST options.