Bios problem with HDD

[LegionnaireDan]

Hello evryone,

This is my first time and post in the ROG forum. Also bare with because am not perfectly bilingual. I hope you understand my bad english.

I have bought a couple months ago an Asus Maximux Formula VII Z97. In the past few day's I had to reformat my PC to Windows 7 Home Editon. I have three HDD from Western Digital. Two of them are both 500 Gig each that I have configure in RAID 0 (Stripe). For my thrird one also a WD but Velociraptor of 300 Gig is ONLY used for gaming, and it's this one am having problem with.

My problem is: When I go to the BIOS setting I cannot find my WD Velociraptor. In windows it is visible and I can use the HDD, with no problem. But there is a hick, there is a yellow exclamation dot just beside the desktop icon of my Velociraptor. My motherboard sees ONLY the two disk in RAID and also my DVD drive, but not my third HDD.

I know it's a problem I have created because am not an expert going into OC or just going into the BIOS to change something. I know there is a way to fix this. Before my reformat the HDD was recognized by the motherboard. The HDD his not recognized by the motherboard because I can't configure it. So if anyone can tell me the step by step method to configure my third HDD, this would be amazing. I have try also by looking into the booklet that comes with the motherboard, but for me it's unreadable because of my lack of expertise in desktop computer configuration. Sorry.

P.S - The Velociraptor is brand new and I did check if it was faulty but no problem with it.

A friend :cool:

[LegionnaireDan]

LegionnaireDan wrote:
Hello evryone,

This is my first time and post in the ROG forum. Also bare with because am not perfectly bilingual. I hope you understand my bad english.

I have bought a couple months ago an Asus Maximux Formula VII Z97. In the past few day's I had to reformat my PC to Windows 7 Home Editon. I have three HDD from Western Digital. Two of them are both 500 Gig each that I have configure in RAID 0 (Stripe). For my thrird one also a WD but Velociraptor of 300 Gig is ONLY used for gaming, and it's this one am having problem with.

My problem is: When I go to the BIOS setting I cannot find my WD Velociraptor. In windows it is visible and I can use the HDD, with no problem. But there is a hick, there is a yellow exclamation dot just beside the desktop icon of my Velociraptor. My motherboard sees ONLY the two disk in RAID and also my DVD drive, but not my third HDD.

I know it's a problem I have created because am not an expert going into OC or just going into the BIOS to change something. I know there is a way to fix this. Before my reformat the HDD was recognized by the motherboard. The HDD his not recognized by the motherboard because I can't configure it. So if anyone can tell me the step by step method to configure my third HDD, this would be amazing. I have try also by looking into the booklet that comes with the motherboard, but for me it's unreadable because of my lack of expertise in desktop computer configuration. Sorry.

P.S - The Velociraptor is brand new and I did check if it was faulty but no problem with it.

A friend :cool:

No one to help me out, please? 😞

[MeanMachine]

Hi LegionnaireDan 🙂

Is the OS system loaded on the Velociraptor, and is it installed for your PC ?
Remove the other two drives and install your OS on the Velociraptor. Or better still, get an SSD drive for your OS and use the other drives for games, storage, and backups. You would be pleased with the speed by which your system boots and the responsiveness of Windows in general with an SSD.

IMO, there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer and real world performance increases are negligible. If its speed you need get an SSD and for backing up, I have a backup drive set to save all my precious files, at set times.

If you wish to continue with what you have, yes the WD Velociraptor is a fast HDD which you have/want, prioritized and recognized in Bios.
To do this, go into Bios, Section 3.8 in your manual and check settings are correct for you. I have for example; SATA Support> All Devices. USB Support>Full Initialization.
Then prioritize your drive. >sellect > boot option priority (section 3-52) Then during system startup, Use F8 to boot to your desired drive (with other drives included,if connected), I think its when the ASUS Logo appears.

Once you are up and running, then add your other drives to do as you want.
If drives don't show in Bios, check all SATA and Power cables and connections.

I was in your situation once and an SSD changed things for me.;)

[LegionnaireDan]

MeanMachine wrote:
Hi LegionnaireDan 🙂

Is the OS system loaded on the Velociraptor, and is it installed for your PC ?
Remove the other two drives and install your OS on the Velociraptor. Or better still, get an SSD drive for your OS and use the other drives for games, storage, and backups. You would be pleased with the speed by which your system boots and the responsiveness of Windows in general with an SSD.

IMO, there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer and real world performance increases are negligible. If its speed you need get an SSD and for backing up, I have a backup drive set to save all my precious files, at set times.

If you wish to continue with what you have, yes the WD Velociraptor is a fast HDD which you have/want, prioritized and recognized in Bios.
To do this, go into Bios, Section 3.8 in your manual and check settings are correct for you. I have for example; SATA Support> All Devices. USB Support>Full Initialization.
Then prioritize your drive. >sellect > boot option priority (section 3-52) Then during system startup, Use F8 to boot to your desired drive (with other drives included,if connected), I think its when the ASUS Logo appears.

Once you are up and running, then add your other drives to do as you want.
If drives don't show in Bios, check all SATA and Power cables and connections.

I was in your situation once and an SSD changed things for me.;)

Hello,

No my OS is install on my RAID0 (Stripe). Well thank you very much and I might get myself today an SSD Drive instead.

Again thank you very mych,

LegionnaireDan

[LegionnaireDan]

Hello, I went for option one for now. I can see in several places in the BIOS, my DVDR Plextor, my HDD System in RAIDO (Stripe) and also my Velociraptor. But still in the BIOS there is an option under the Boot Tab at the buttom of the page, under Boot option 1 > System Drive, Boot option 2 > Plextor DVDR. Before I was able to see also my Velociraptor under Boot option one or two and I use to pick: Boot option 1> HHD System, Boot option 2> Velociraptor and/or DVDR Plextor in case I had to restart system with OS disk.

The problem exactly is I don't see anymore the Velociraptor in those two boot option choices that I had before. So I don't know how to configure to BIOS so it will recognise the Velociraptor. When I go into device manager, I have a yellow exclamation dot beside the Velociraptor.

I hope you understand what I mean, because am not perfect in english.

Thank you,

LegionnaireDan

[MeanMachine]

Hi LegionnaireDan
As the drive has been recognized by the Bios prior to changes you made, go back. Try different SATA ports including other drives and check the cabling.
The yellow exclamation mark in W10 would be from your Device Manager and means: no driver or incorrect driver installed. Update the driver or delete the driver in Device Manager and reboot your system. The correct driver should install.

[LegionnaireDan]

MeanMachine wrote:
Hi LegionnaireDan
As the drive has been recognized by the Bios prior to changes you made, go back. Try different SATA ports including other drives and check the cabling.
The yellow exclamation mark in W10 would be from your Device Manager and means: no driver or incorrect driver installed. Update the driver or delete the driver in Device Manager and reboot your system. The correct driver should install.

Hello MeanMachine 😮

I took your advice and went to get my self a Kingston SSD 240 Gig for OS. Everything went well but I still that yellow exclamation mark under now windows 7 Family Edition Premium. It has to do again with my velociraptor again. Anyway I should have bought an SDD drive for a long time ago. WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW! what a speed. I would say around 10 to 15 seconds to boot up PC. Instead two to two minutes and a half before. Thanks a lot for help. And I'll look into the device manager.

LegionnaireDan :cool: