Hello.
I own Asus M5A99X Evo and 2 x Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB disks.
They are attached to SATA_1 and SATA_2.
Disks are members of RAID 0.
I have Windows 7 x64 installed on my only RAID 0.
No CD/DVD drives.
Recently I got BSoD - STOP 7b and immediately it became present on every boot.
Can't access “Safe mode” either. Freezes after
..\drivers\ahcix64s.sys
..\drivers\portstore.sys
First I decided to repair Windows. System restore did not detect the disk and drivers from the motherboard CD did not solve anything.
I tried all 3 drivers from Asus site - no result.
So I decided to make a fresh install. And problem repeated itself just as with system restore - Windows installer did not see the disk.
I've tried drivers from 3.2.1540.92 to latest I found on AMD website - 3.3.1540.35. No use.
So I thought drives are damaged. I created Hiren's Boot CD and it sees array and both partitions - System Reserved and other (let’s call it win partition) which contain Windows installation and data. I could even backup my important data to USB.
Ububtu installation also detects array and both partitions.
To double check I ran:
1. checkdisk on win partition and no errors where found
2. I disabled RAID and run “Western digital data lifeguard diagnostic” on each driver separately and both passed test
3. Ran Memtest86 which resulted in 2 passes with no errors.
This and the fact I could backup data seems to exclude hardware failure.
I also read hundreds of threads and even the "solved" ones could not help me.
Please help!
I own Asus M5A99X Evo and 2 x Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB disks.
They are attached to SATA_1 and SATA_2.
Disks are members of RAID 0.
I have Windows 7 x64 installed on my only RAID 0.
No CD/DVD drives.
Recently I got BSoD - STOP 7b and immediately it became present on every boot.
Can't access “Safe mode” either. Freezes after
..\drivers\ahcix64s.sys
..\drivers\portstore.sys
First I decided to repair Windows. System restore did not detect the disk and drivers from the motherboard CD did not solve anything.
I tried all 3 drivers from Asus site - no result.
So I decided to make a fresh install. And problem repeated itself just as with system restore - Windows installer did not see the disk.
I've tried drivers from 3.2.1540.92 to latest I found on AMD website - 3.3.1540.35. No use.
So I thought drives are damaged. I created Hiren's Boot CD and it sees array and both partitions - System Reserved and other (let’s call it win partition) which contain Windows installation and data. I could even backup my important data to USB.
Ububtu installation also detects array and both partitions.
To double check I ran:
1. checkdisk on win partition and no errors where found
2. I disabled RAID and run “Western digital data lifeguard diagnostic” on each driver separately and both passed test
3. Ran Memtest86 which resulted in 2 passes with no errors.
This and the fact I could backup data seems to exclude hardware failure.
I also read hundreds of threads and even the "solved" ones could not help me.
Please help!
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