A7N8X Raptor Raid problem

[iamwhoiam]

I recently installed 2 raptors on my Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. However, when on boot, after the Award bios screen (showing cpu, memory etc) it displays the Silicon SATA Bios showing the two drives, with a message "Incomplete raid set: press <CTRL>+S or F4 to enter raid utility" - Upon doing so, there is the error message "No drives detected, press any key to continue". The computer then proceeds to boot up on my ATA100 HDD connected as Master IDE1. In the operating system, the disk management utility in windows xp does not show any signs of a SATA drive. I am using uberbios 1.0.0.7 with windows drivers 1.00.40. The SATA jumper is set to enabled.

Thanks, Andy

[iamwhoiam]

Just surfed around, and it's identical to this problem:

http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14811/

but with Raptors

[TiG]

Andy,

What does your bios say about these two SATA drives, my system the IC7 I have to change several bios settings to ensure that the system picks up the information for my SATA drives before I can enter the config utility.

I'd suggesting checking your bios first and looking through the options to ensure the sata stuff is fully enabled.

TiG

[iamwhoiam]

My A7N8X shows no sign of any SATA settings. After BIOS has completed half its post (eg after the CPU/Memory/Award bios's first screen).. It shows this:

Press <Ctrl+S> or F4 to enter RAID utility
0 WDC36GD-00FNA0OGP 35156 MB
1 WDC36GD-00FNa0OGP 35156 MB

Incomplete Raid Set! Please press <Ctrl+S> or F4 to enter Raid Utility

>>>here, I hit Ctrl+S or F4 and I get....
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Incomplete Raid Set! Please press <Ctrl+S> or F4 to enter Raid Utility
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>>>i hit F4 again and I get

No device detected, Utility disabled!
Press any key to continue....

[iamwhoiam]

Right some interesting things -

When I use Wester Digital's DLG Diagnostic Utility (text based version 5.03, not the gui based latest version 11 which doesn't detect anything). It can see the drives. When I run Quick&Extended tests, the drives pass - However, when I select the option "Write Zeros To Hard Drive", the program after 5 minute of inactivity (progress bar doesn't move) displays the following "Error - IRQ Timeout : Error - 0112"

[bledd]

not trying to be ignorant to your porblem.., but you might wanna try the asus forums, i know the Abit ones are top notch..

[bledd]

these forums are REALLY good


http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/

[iamwhoiam]

indeed
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39345

I cant seem to find a forum anywhere on the asus website

[bledd]

hope you get it sorted soon mate..