formula v 990fx + fx8150 + force gt raid bsod

[sndwavesuperior]

Hello everyone, I just recently installed another force 3 gt, and an 8150. I installed and raided my force gts, upon a clean install , Windows crashes right before it loads. The Bsod flickers to quick for me to be able to see it. Formally I had a single gt drive that worked perfectly fine before I raided them, I've looked around all day for answers, so I've finally decided to ask here, this is my first post any help would be greatly appreciated!

[HiVizMan]

Did you enable RAID in the the BIOS.

Could you post up the settings you used in the BIOS please.

[sndwavesuperior]

Yes, I created an raid 0 stripe. Here are screenshots of my bios.

Windows will install to a single drive if switched from raid.









In windows install when asked for drivers I installed the 32 bit driver, for the 64 bit operating system. (from disk, I have also tried the latest raid driver released for the board)

The raided drive shows. installation completes and on reboot into windows install a BSOD occurs.
It has never made it past this point. If tried in safe mode, it bsod's at disk.sys. Both ssd's work. Ive ran windows on both.
It leads me to believe the raid controller is no good.... This is my second Formula.

[stock12to32]

I have heard a lot of older model OCZ SSD's doing this and sometimes could be fixed with a firmware update and most of the time not.
Did you get your 2nd drive new ?

[sndwavesuperior]

The one ssd I thought was at fault was RMAd , unfortunatley it didn't fix the problem. The funny thing is one day I got it to work. & eventually it bsod, I then sent that drive back. I installed the drivers from a flash drive x64 and x84 and it made it into window, but it still continued to bsod in windows. Possibly a stable working driver placed on the flash drive may fix my problem. Any suggestions?

[sndwavesuperior]

& to answer your question yea I got them new, the 2nd one I bought later was in slimer packaging, the one I rmad came in that same package. I would like to think it was only firmware, but it used to work, and I'm having a very difficult time getting it to work again. I want to use raid 0 on my ssds.

[stock12to32]

Is 1 drive still working ok ? If not maybe start looking into your RAM (memotest). If one drive works ok then maybe try installing windows on to 1 drive and just partition the other and try do run Defrag or run windows Error_checking on the drives separately and see if you blue screen. Im just shooting from the hip with ideas so...

There were a few different problems with the older OCZ drives and one of them was when trying to raid them and you would get a BSOD like how you described and OCZ's fix for it was to do a firmware update and going by some reviews (Amazon & Newegg) some were able to fix it and some were not.

[Henkenator68NL]

stock12to32 wrote:
is 1 drive still working ok ? If not maybe start looking into your ram (memotest). If one drive works ok then maybe try installing windows on to 1 drive and just partition the other and try do run defrag or run windows error_checking on the drives separately and see if you blue screen. Im just shooting from the hip with ideas so...

defragging your ssd will cause damage !!! So do not do that

[stock12to32]

Henkenator68NL wrote:
defragging your ssd will cause damage !!! So do not do that

I have read that defrag does not damage a SSD but it is not needed and defrag to much can wear older ssd's down. I said to defrag because I was having a problem like this with a older OCZ Patrol SSD and running defrag was an easy way to see if it was working or not.

[HiVizMan]

I am back in the saddle again, and will put my AMD system on the test bench and put a SSD raid setup guide together and at the same time try and find out why you are having this issue.

http://rog.asus.com/77402012/rampage-iv-motherboards/what-is-raid-setup-guide/

Something similar to the one I did for Intel.