[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[sesdave]

ok i just got my p5k premium and installed vista 64 home premium with 2 wd drives on raid 0... everything was working fine yesterday when i had the 204 bios and then i forget what i was doing but eventually i rebooted the system and it wouldnt boot... then after some screwin around it eventually booted but now before i get into windows it shows the raid array screen and it says the drive is bootable but on one of the drives it has a red error message beside it although it boots fine and has been working ok i think.

what does this mean? should i try wiping everything and reinstalling?

if i do wipe everything was is the best program to use to save everything i have on the drive right now? or would this maybe transfer the same problems to the freshly wiped array?

btw i flashed to the 402 bios today.

A little bit more detail is required - What is your setup and BIOS settings. What did you change 'screwin around' that enabled you to boot. What was the RAID error message. What does the matrix manager show about the condition of the RAID disks - have u run verify?. Remember that if any system file is corrupt you can try a VISTA repair rather than reinstall. Normally works very well which is good as raid 0 fails more than non raid.
Acronis True image 11 home is what you want for backup/restore. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/ Will also enable universal restore on another system or if you change to single system drive.
This is also worth reading re setting up RAID 0/1 under matrix on only 2 disks.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848
This would give you the benefit of RAID 0 performance for system files and RAID 1 for photos,music etc.