Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
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.
Hey, I DO blame this board because I've been building my own systems for 7-8 years and (since motherboard prices keep going up) this is the most expensive motherboard I've ever purchased and it's also the buggiest. The issues I've describe didn't just start with flashing to F4. In fact, flashing to F4 was an attempt to fix problems that have persisted ever since I got the board. I've had slow boots, S3 problems and board SATA ports since the beginning. I've resolve the slow boots but not the S3.

F4, as you can see from the other posters above, really f@cked up some people's setups. In my case, it made a finicky board even worse.

As for my RAID and restoring stuff, I keep all my important data on my two non-RAID'ed 1TB drives and also have them backed up on externals. My raptor RAID is just for OS and apps - which, under normal circumstances, I don't mind re-installing because it's not that hard to do. If that was the only problem then no big deal. But you add in all the other problems I've had with this board (which has been TWO Extremes now due to one RMA) - then, yeah, I have every right to be pissed at this board.