Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[Hornet331]

So I'm having to reformat my RAID O OS partition and do a fresh OS install!!! This is the FOURTH time I've had to do so since I bought this board about a month ago. I've been having so many problems with this board since I upgraded from my Q6600 system that I held off on validating the Vista install until things were stable. Just YESTERDAY I went through the whole call Microsoft and jump through their hoops routine to activate my Vista install. Finished installing ALL of my apps just this afternoon. And now, it's ALL gone and I get to do it all over again.

sorry but that just made me laught.... you have a raid 0 (suicide raid) and run the OS on it and you have no mirror backup... are you a masochist (J/K) ?

I had my share of experience with onboard raid 0/10 and the one thing i learned from it, was that raid zero has earned its nick "suicide raid" for real.

First thing i have done when i still had my raid, was a mirror backup of my system partition. Sometimes a failed oc could rendered the whole os unusable... well no big deal with a mirror -> 30min and system was back to where i started.

I suggest you to invest in a decent backup program if you plan on using a raid 0.

Its funny to see people blame the board, when the actual cause is something elese.