Well everything was going great last night until I started seeing a huge slowdown in performance (again, no overclocking). Suddenly I got a BSOD and immediate reboot. During reboot my RAID5 array was in degraded state. It showed two out of the four disks as degraded. I chose to "repair array" and went back into Windows Vista. Same thing happened again, but this time the Intel RAID BIOS only showed one disk in degraded state.

I am wondering if it is a bad hard drive, but need to run a utility on it to be sure. My question though is how to install the Intel RAID manager software? As I mentioned I am running Vista. I tried browsing the CD included with the mobo as well as installing it via Autoplay and it bombs out. Is there a way to get it installed separately from the CD? Or do I need to download an executable direct from Intel's website?

Also, are there any drivers that I should have installed for my Intel RAID array once in Vista? I used the default ones that came with Vista because I read here in the forums that they should work fine. However, it appears something went wrong and am trying to figure out if it was the hard drive or possibly a driver issue?

Thanks,

-scaryogre