Vipercat on 5/12/2008 at 11:55
I have just recently updated the bios in my motherboard due to a new cpu upgrade, now when i try to boot up the computer it tells me there is a disc error and to restart. I suspect this is because i had originally setup the 2 drives in a Raid0 array for maximum speed, so i guess that the new bios does not know about the Raid array. How do i go about resetting the bios to read the raid0 discs and not loose all my data in the process
The Technical details
M/B Asus Striker II NSE
H/D Samsung 750gb x2 setup as Raid0
O/S Vista Ultimate 64bit
bikerdude on 5/12/2008 at 13:28
Quote Posted by Vipercat
so i guess that the new bios does not know about the Raid array. How do i go about resetting the bios to read the raid0 discs and not loose all my data in the process
The Technical details
M/B Asus Striker II NSE
H/D Samsung 750gb x2 setup as Raid0
O/S Vista Ultimate 64bit
you need to press " ctrl-I " or " ctrl A " when booting to configure the array - but DO NOT create a new array, as you will loose your data. You add the drives to an exsisting array - which will retain your data.
biker
Vipercat on 5/12/2008 at 14:56
No luck so far
Heres what i have done
I went into the bios and in the "onboard device configuration" i set the jmicron raid controller to raid
then in the " serial sata configuration" i set the raid enabled to enabled
then set sata 1 and 2 raid to enabled as well
Now when i boot up if i press f10 during the raid detection i see that i have a 1.36 tb drive setup and set to boot but the jmicron controller still says no any drives found
If i put the vista disc in and boot but ignore the boot from dvd option everything loads up fine but as soon as you take the disc out and boot up i get a boot disk failure
bikerdude on 5/12/2008 at 17:51
Have you check the boot order in the bios, its possible that the raid array isnt in the boot order and will need to be put back.
biker
Vipercat on 6/12/2008 at 00:59
Fixed
I found that the boot order was fine but because i have an external drive attached via the usb it for some reason decided that this was the first drive to boot from and that it was a fixed disk not a removeable media, Changed the order of the drives so that the raid was first and bingo all came up fine
Now a new problem
I have just changed from an intel E8500 core 2 duo processor to an Intel Q9550 Quad core processor and enabled the 2 extra cores in the bios but now vista only see it as two E8550 cpu's and 2 unknown cores
I have installed the latest nforce drivers because the chipset is nvidia
Any ideas
Vipercat on 6/12/2008 at 02:02
Never mind i found a solution here
(
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930861/en-us)
It seems that the processor was installed correctly just device manager wasnt updating
All Better
Thanks Biker for pointing me in the right direction
bikerdude on 6/12/2008 at 14:48
hmmm, I didnt know about this issue - bloody vista.
nice find :cheeky:
biker
