Computer finishes ChkDsk, then BSOD

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I don't even remember why I decided to run ChkDsk on my Windows 7 64bit Professional system, but I did, and now, when I turn on my computer, ChkDsk will run. Upon finishing all 5 stages, it will say "An Unspecified Error Occurred (766f6c756d652e63 3f1)", it will very slowly display 2 dots on the next line, and then flask a BSOD too fast for me to read it. It then reboots and runs ChkDsk again, finishes with the error, reboots, runs ChkDsk, ad infinitum.

I've noticed that when the computer boots, the RAID volume housing the Windows installation is listed with a "Normal" status, while under "Physical Disks", the two 64 Gig SSDs I have RAIDed together in RAID 0 to form a "single" 128 Gig SSD are each separately identified by the BIOS as having a "Status(Vol ID)" of "Error Occurred(0)". I'm attaching a pic of the BIOS screen.
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Are there any ideas about what's going on? Should pressing 'F8' during the reboot take me into Safe Mode despite the ongoing ChkDsk's?
 

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Update: I used 'F8' to get into the Windows boot menu, and then selected Boot Into Safe Mode. The below screen displayed, asking me to "Please Wait..." So I
waited for quite some time until I realized there was a barely visible line of multicolored bars across the top of the screen... the classic artifacts of a frozen computer.
I'm going to force the computer into a shut down and then reboot into the Windows boot menu again and try something else. I'll keep you updated.
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Another update: I used the Windows boot menu to boot into Windows using some sort of advanced diagnostic tool, and windows came up fine. As soon as I logged
into my (admin) account, a bubble popped up from the system tray telling me that "Intel Matrix Storage Console" had discovered errors on my two striped RAID drives. I'm taking
advantage of my time in Windows to perform a full system backup to an external hard drive with Macrium Reflect. Incidentally, I remembered why I ran ChkDsk in the first place; I
was unable to run a backup on Macrium Reflect and posts on their forums advised that I run ChkDsk. That didn't turn out so well.
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