Hello all,
Been lurking these forums since I built this machine a year ago, very awesome resource. Anyway, everything with my machine has been running great until I upgraded to the 2105 bios 2 months ago. I now have this intermittent problem during boot up with my RAID 0 array failing. Now I know you all are going to call me crazy, but I have 4 x 60GB Vertex 2 SSDs in Raid 0, lol, don't worry, everything gets backed up everyday!
20-30% of the time during boot up or restarts, the raid array fails to initialize. I need to press ctrl+i, enter the Intel Raid Utility, refresh the main screen once or twice until PORT 1 is recognized with a disk, then I can exit and it boots up just fine. 70% of the time I don't have this issue. Every time it fails, its always 1 out of the 4 drives connected to PORT 1 . The Intel Raid Utility will only see drives on ports 0,3,4. Like i stated above, I then need enter the utility, refresh the main screen until PORT 1 shows up again, exit and boots up just fine. I run ATTO tests and benchmarks on the array in Windows and everything seems A OK. The Intel Rapid Storage App in Windows currently displays the array as active and healthy with all the details for the 4 SSDs.
This problem is so intermittent, 30% of the time, its difficult for me to trouble shoot using different cables and drives connected to different ports. I'm hoping you all could help me on where to start trouble shooting? Is this an issue that has come up before? Or is this the death throws of failing SSD hardware? This only started happening 2 months ago when I upgraded from the 1204 BIOS to the 2105 BIOS, leading me to think it maybe related. At the time of the upgrade, I also updated all the drivers found on the ASUS support downloads page for this motherboard. My BIOS settings are pretty much default, except for disabling on board sound and the Marvel Raid controller. Anything to guide me in the right direction to solving this issue will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks much!
