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RAIDR Express PCI-E X4 Secure Erase Issue

NubCube
Level 7
Hi

I have have the following issue that hopefully some of you more experienced guys could help me fix.

I am running Windows 8.1 with a RAIDR Express PCIe SSD as system drive holding the Win 8.1. When trying to sort out the origin of exactly the same shut-down issue as described by user 'BOLTS4BREAKFAST' in this thread

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?35917-computer-won-t-shut-down/page3

I noticed that the shut-down issue occurred after installing one of the drivers on the RIVE support DVD Rev.591.06 when installing them all. In an attempt to isolate exactly which one had caused the shut down issue (shutting down worked fine before driver upgrade) I decided to erase my RAIDR express.

I followed the instructions Enabling CSM and setting it to boot from optical SATA device. Further deleting the Virtual disk with the Marvel tool (CTRL-M menu). When booting the RAIDR Express support DVD and running Secure Erase 1,00,03 Secure Erase does not load properly and it hangs with the following trace:

Triggering udev events: /sbin/udevadm trigger --action=add
udevd[1774]: timeout 'ata_id --export /dev/sr0'

Im not really good with Linux. From the looks of it, the Linus boot fails to communicate with an ata device. Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this and get the RAIDR Express erased in a good way without damaging it?


I have successfully run Secure Erase on my first attempt. That was with RIVE BIOS Rev 4403 and before I decided to swap the Win 7 Pro installation for a Win 8.1 as appeared to work for 'BOLTS4BREAKFAST'. For me as I said above, I think maybe another driver is the source of the shutdown issue.

My system is:
ASUS RIVE, Bios ver. 4802
Intel Core i7 4930K
ASUS RAIDR Express PCI-E X2 SSD 240GB
ASUS GeForce GTX 780 OC 3GB
Corsair 32 GB DDR3 Vengeance Quad 1866 MHz (Not really happy with these atm on the RIVE since all overclocking attemps so far has failed.)
Seasonic X1050 1050W

Thank you very much for considering this. Note: I apologize if the thread title is confusing. The RAIDR is indeed a two-lane gen 2 PCIe module so X2 is a correct notation (can't change once posted).
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NubCube
Level 7
*RESOLVED*

Simply booting with Secure Boot: Windows UEFI instead of Other OS made it work properly. I thought I had already tested that before posting but obviously not. I will post back should I be able to identify which driver that triggers the shutdown issue.