And for my next question!... How the heck to I install the RAID driver?

[greensha]

So I've successfully updated my BIOS to 3404 and now I am trying to add a RAID 1 with two 2TB drives I just added to the case. I've set the BIOS SATA option to RAID. Created the RAID 1 volume in the Intel RAID utility. However, when I try and boot into Windows, I get the Starting Windows screen, then a quick BSOD and then a reboot. I've tried setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\iaStorV "Start" from 3 to 0, but this seems to have no effect.

I know that is best to add the RAID drivers when you are doing your first system install, but I forgot. I know there is a way to do this, but it's been five years since I've had to think about it. I've Googled lots, but can't find anything to help. Any pointers?

Thanks!

[HalloweenWeed]

It's prob more like your Windows swap/hybernation partition is gone, so Windows crashes. You prob have to reinstall Windows.
Is the RAID 1 your only drive? Do you have SSD?
When you install Windows, you press F6 at the prompt; perhaps it will load the driver without, IDK.
You didn't say what OS ver - not sure it matters.

[greensha]

I just can't seem to figure out what the hell to do. I created the RAID array using the BIOS and the Intel RAID manger. Started to install Windows 7 and I get the Load Driver Dialog. I D/L'ed the drivers from the Intel website (Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RAID) driver version 11.7.0.1013.) and none of those are compatible according to the Load Driver dialog. I tried inserting the ASUS Support DVD and looking for drivers there (following the instructions in the User Manual, but there is no driver folder listed. I'm not sure that the disk is being read. I copied the drivers from the disk manually onto a USB driver, but still I get the "No device drivers found message."

I'm at my wits end with this. I did a RAID on my last build about five years ago and had no problems. I can't remember what I did differently, but I don't remember having any problems with it.

Is it really possible to get a RAID set-up on a Rampage IV Formula?

Thanks for bearing with my mini-rant... I'm going to drink some beer!

[greensha]

I have an SSD with the OS on it. The RAID 1 disks are currently unformatted. I'm using Windows 7. it just seems strange to me that there is no wway to retroactively add a RAID to a Windows set up, but then having dealt with Windows in it's various incarnations in a former life, nothing about it surprises me anymore!

[Zerid]

I had to disable driver signature enforcement to get my raid drivers to install. I did a force install, right click on the controller and go to properties then go to driver, select update driver, then browse my computer for driver software, then select let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. Then click on have disk, go to where ever you have to driver saved on your computer and select it. Doing this allowed me to install 11.7.0.1013.,I haven't had any problem since.

[greensha]

I think I may have found the answer in the following thread... http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?10350-Rampage-IV-Extreme-Raid-Problem

[HalloweenWeed]

I'm guessing that when you installed Windows onto that SSD you had another drive connected. I hate this about Windows: When you install that way, Windows puts the swap file/partition or something like that on the other drive. I found this out the hard way just like you did. So the last time when I installed Windows I only had my SSD connected. But at that point, I had abandoned RAID. FYI.

[Daveo]

Greensha,

I'm guessing you installed your OS with a microsoft-supplied AHCI driver until you ran the mobo driver cd from the desktop?

I had some issues myself, seems its always best to install the raid driver from the word go. What i did was i modifed the setup parameters of the win7 setup disk on the usb drive to force install and ignore driver signature enforcement. I used RT7 Lite to copy setup files from the disk to the usb drive. Then flicked the option to disable signature enforcement. while i was there i added the updated raid drivers to the win7 setup directory. it doesn't matter if the drivers are added beforehand its really mostly necessary for unattended installs, whats important is that you run RT 7 Lite's modified setup. It doesn't even need to be a bootable usb, it just needs to be recognized by the bios because you can easily just navigate to the usb dir from windows 7 cd setup and run setup.exe. it will load a second instance of setup and thats it, the driver will load properly.

so, is it that you can't get into windows because the formula doesn't allow you to swap to sata mode to raid and still load the OS? (it used be backwards compatible as i remember it)

In addition to the registry modification it may be that you need to update ur current system OS driver via device manager with the whql raid driver so that when you flick the bios sata mode back to raid later, the OS will have the correct driver at hand and won't throw a blue screen. Then you can just boot and load the driver for the raid1 array. Im not quite sure if its as simple as just replacing the driver as ive never tested it but i'll stay tuned to see how you go.

Daveo

[greensha]

I finally got everything working. I'll make a post detailing how I did it. It was pretty standard I think, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who has struggled with this.

Thanks!

[HiVizMan]

You can set up an RAID in OS if your SSD OS was installed in a non-RAID mode originally.