Crashes When Raid Turned On

jarrodg1993

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My computer works great, no problems at all, till I turn on Raid. When I turn it on in the bios my computer crashes every time when windows is starting with the colorful swirling dots that you see on windows 7. I have an MSI Z87 GD65 gaming board with an i5 4670k and windows 7 ultimate. I am trying to add a small 32gb msata cache ssd for my 3tb drive with all my programs on it. I know I have to turn raid on to do so but, as I said, I can not start my computer when I turn it on.
 

jarrodg1993

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I'm not trying to raid the two as a mirror or expansion I am making the smaller one a cache drive. The cache drive is always gonna be smaller than your mechanical one.
 

jarrodg1993

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Everywhere I've looked people say you have to have it turned on for it. You don't actually use raid for that but it has to be turned on. I can't find any raid drivers on the website for my motherboard though.
 


You need to do; ( sometime you can just change the registry subkeys in the regular mode, but I found that it will work well under the safe mode)
1) press 'win" and "R" go to the run command. Type " msconfig", press OK.
2) click "boot" tab, click the " safe boot". click " apply" and "OK". Reboot into the safe mode.
3) press 'win" and "R" go to the run command. Type " regedit ", press OK.
4) Locate the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorA
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorF
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor ( you may or may not have all the iaStorX X=A, F, or V key)
5)For example, click the "iaStorA", and in the right panel, look for the "star", right-click "Start" in the name column , click the " modify...."
6) In the value data box, type 0 if the number is "3", and then click OK.On the File menu, click exit to close Registry Editor.
7) press 'win" and "R" go to the run command. Type " msconfig", press OK.
8) click "boot" tab, uncheck the " safe boot". click " apply" and "OK". Reboot into the regular mode.
9) install the intel RST software ( iata_enu.exe ). https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22194
10) run the intel RST to set the SRT cache using the 32GB SSD. Here is how to. * Following the "Enabling Intel® Smart Response Technology" step by step.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032826.htm