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jeffro
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n°1789470
03-07-2008 at 03:50:52 PM

Hello everyone,

I just built a new system, its been running fine for a few weeks but when I turned the monitor on this morning (I leave the PC on all the time) I noticed a system error box and my machine was locked up. I hard reset it and when I rebooted as soon as the DMI Pool sucessfully upates it blue screens for maybe half a second and reboots. My machine was overclocked (E8400 @ 3.6ghz 410x9) so I dropped it back to factory settings and it was still bluescreening.. I had my HDDs set in RAID0 and after a few reboots it gave me a boot failure and the first drive was showing out of the raid array.

I'm thinking a drive died on me, anyone have any other thoughts suggestions?

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jay2tall
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n°1789472
03-07-2008 at 04:16:40 PM

My suggestion is doing away with the Raid-0 Performance increase is very minimal and the frustration factor is HIGH. Plus I don't trust on board Raid controllers. They are just bad juju.

My personal suggestion would be to install OS and apps on one drive and use the other for data.


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n°1789476
03-07-2008 at 04:40:35 PM

I think the correct answer should have been:
Separate your boot and data sections on different drives or partitions. Raid 0 for boot, Raid 1 for data. And regularly backup your data and backup your boot whenever you install a new program.
Raid 0 is good (though novice shy away). Just disable all write caching on all your drives. If your write cache is on you'll have problems with raid arrays whenever you have BSOD.

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n°1789656
03-08-2008 at 02:58:12 PM

Kursun's suggestion is similar to what's done in a server environment. Since the average user doesn't have the know-how or money to get the same setup, we can either partition the single drive into 2 or buy a smaller harddisk for the OS. The other for data. XP & Vista setups have built-in partitioning tools. Also, it can be obtained from the harddisk manufacturer sites. Among some other tools like diagnosis & migration.

Kursun gave the BEST advice that nobody seems to listen: BACK UP! I do back up my OS monthly with Acronis True Image. Used to like Norton Ghost. The install CD is bootable & the wizard will walk you through the process of backup & restore. XP & Vista have built-in backup programs. This is a free one:

http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm


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