Quote Originally Posted by Zeussa View Post
Thats right, but it's not a bios update, these drivers are applied once in the OS. Get em here and put am all in as they're meant....

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

Interestingly, there is also an AI Suite new update there too, sorts the prob of it not opening when i updated to BIOS 907, and temp reads. Also a new PC ProbeII.

But i did read somewhere that one needs NEW, untouched Hardrives when configing RAID for the first time, so maybe this applies when taking already RAID configed HD to a new system, if they don't sync up in RAID 0 for some reason, there will always be a failure on any one disc, it just wont match up. Also, the system prolly wants to put it's own RAID disc management info on the discs, via Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Driver. Check out the Wikipedia about RAID info. Hope that helps.
I never attempted to use the same RAID-0 config from my old board to my new one. That certainly wouldn't work and would cause all kinds of problems. No, both disks were formatted before I attached them. I then created a new RAID-0 config in the raid bios and installed the OS on it, using the F6 + driver disk combo. That whole process ran flawlessly. I also reformatted the RAID volume in the OS install interface.

But I do have a new related problem which I've been able to recreate three times. I'll specify it as best as I can and I'll also get back to you with additional info once I'm back home. I'm at work now so I don't have access to the test environment.

Here's what happens:
During a stress test with SPPrime on 4 cores using 256mb memory I got system stalls. This happened at 3400 Mhz and after the prime test had been going on flawlessly for 2 hours.
The event viewer told me this:
"The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period."
I restarted the system and tried again, recreating the problem, which succeeded and a new event was written to the log.
After that I updated my drivers to the newest version and tried again. I didn't get that exact error log after a while but I got a warningl: disk log event. But the symptoms are the same and also a BSOD came about. I'll post its error codes once I'm back home, but that'll be at least 5 hours after this post.

Both disks were on SATA channel 5 and 6 (counting from the first channel as 1).
I have now changed them to channel 1 and two where I previously had my SATA DVDRW drive attached. I put that one in slot 5 and it's currently being tested as we speak, figuratively
I hope there's not a BSOD waiting for me when I get back home though I suspect there will.
Something tells me that this is either a power interface issue or ACPI problem. Both are of course related.

Does anyone else hear a sound when the RAID controller is doing I/O commands?