Boy, am I missing something or what? I did at least 3 hours of searching the BIOS, MOBO manual, & Driver / utility CD that came with my board & I can not find anything to turn off the RAID controller.
What board are you running? I'm running the A7V8X myself.
In BIOS I see nothing there to turn on or off for RAID. In the Manual I see how to load the drivers for RAID & hook up the HDD's, but nothing to turn RAID on or off. I also see how to load the driver & set up a RAID, but I'm only running 1 HDD & have it plugged into the IDE connector on the board. On the CD I see the driver that I can install, but have never installed it because I'm not running RAID.
Do I need to install it to be able to turn it off? I'm afraid I'll lose my setup if I do that or it won't install because I don't have a HDD connected to it, one or the other.
In Device manager, I have no question marks. I do see the SCSI & RAID controllers, but in Properties all I see there is update the driver or roll back the driver.
Completely baffled! I've been running it like this since I built it in Nov. Seems to have no effect on the system, but it might. Bugs me to no end now. The explanation I got in Nov. is as I stated in my other posts. All it is telling me is that I don't have a drive attached to the RAID Controller, which I don't. What am I missing here? This is the first board I built with RAID onboard, so that's what concerns me. The A7N8X's I've built since I don't think I noticed it, course it's a different RAID & BIOS on those boards.
So could you look in your BIOS & see exactly what you turned off. Hey, that's what I'm here for to learn all the things I can. Appreciate the help for sure.
If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!