This is a long story abbreviated where possible.
Current computer (nothing overclocked ever)
i7 920, Asus P6X58D (most current Bios)
6gigs Corsair 1600mhz
285gtx
1 gig Seagate 7200.12 1gig
Windows 7pro 64
1Kw Antec PSU
1300VA UPS
All air cooled, checked with Real Temp and backed up with HWmonitor
Previous build was same CPU, memory and GPU. Had Gigabyte GA58x ud4p, vista 64 prem, 750thermaltake PSU, and RAID 0 (2xSamsung F1 750gig). Started getting Explorer crash "ntdll.dll" error. bought win7pro64, installed Raid 0 (Samsung F1s), still had error. bought new 1tb WD black, reinstalled win7pro64, still had error. Bought new Gigabyte GA 58xA ud5, 2nd WD black, reinstalled win7pro64, and Raid 0. "ntdll.dll" problem went away, had host of more yet less annoying problems. Bought new PSU, and Asus P6X58D and could not install windows7 on Raid 0.
Ok here is the hart of the issue. After installing Vista 64 via Raid 0, I was able to install Window7, Raid 0. But both of my Samsungs and now my WD's after having had Win7 in Raid 0, cannot have windows reinstalled on them. Bios can view them, and I can even set them as a Raid via the ICH10R (control I, while booting), but no matter what I do, windows7 will NOT view them as a drive on which an OS can be loaded. I have even tried installing them as IDE and just sata, one drive only, no joy. I have tried installing the driver for the ICH10R via the win7 install, and the driver loads, and still, NO drive available. Perfectly good drives appear to be locked out, and unusable. No matter what I try. I cant even get vista to see them.
So I bought a brand new seagate 1tb and installed Win7 (no raid), with out issue and without the need to load any drivers for the chipset.
Here is my question, are the drives locked somehow, and if so how do I unlock them? Or, did windows or some other problem I dont see, somehow screw these drives up forever and now they are just really shinny paper weights?
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance....
G
Current computer (nothing overclocked ever)
i7 920, Asus P6X58D (most current Bios)
6gigs Corsair 1600mhz
285gtx
1 gig Seagate 7200.12 1gig
Windows 7pro 64
1Kw Antec PSU
1300VA UPS
All air cooled, checked with Real Temp and backed up with HWmonitor
Previous build was same CPU, memory and GPU. Had Gigabyte GA58x ud4p, vista 64 prem, 750thermaltake PSU, and RAID 0 (2xSamsung F1 750gig). Started getting Explorer crash "ntdll.dll" error. bought win7pro64, installed Raid 0 (Samsung F1s), still had error. bought new 1tb WD black, reinstalled win7pro64, still had error. Bought new Gigabyte GA 58xA ud5, 2nd WD black, reinstalled win7pro64, and Raid 0. "ntdll.dll" problem went away, had host of more yet less annoying problems. Bought new PSU, and Asus P6X58D and could not install windows7 on Raid 0.
Ok here is the hart of the issue. After installing Vista 64 via Raid 0, I was able to install Window7, Raid 0. But both of my Samsungs and now my WD's after having had Win7 in Raid 0, cannot have windows reinstalled on them. Bios can view them, and I can even set them as a Raid via the ICH10R (control I, while booting), but no matter what I do, windows7 will NOT view them as a drive on which an OS can be loaded. I have even tried installing them as IDE and just sata, one drive only, no joy. I have tried installing the driver for the ICH10R via the win7 install, and the driver loads, and still, NO drive available. Perfectly good drives appear to be locked out, and unusable. No matter what I try. I cant even get vista to see them.
So I bought a brand new seagate 1tb and installed Win7 (no raid), with out issue and without the need to load any drivers for the chipset.
Here is my question, are the drives locked somehow, and if so how do I unlock them? Or, did windows or some other problem I dont see, somehow screw these drives up forever and now they are just really shinny paper weights?
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance....
G