ASUS Raid Issues

[c0febean]

So I purchased an ASUS X399 Zenith board and have 6x Samsung SSD 850 Pro that I want to setup as RAID 0. The board is upgraded with the latest firmware and it does recognize all the hard drives when set in ACHI mode:

https://i.imgur.com/GPGip9a.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/G5kwjZa.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/cix5Mtg.jpg

But when I switch it from ACHI to RAID, all the drives are not seen by the board and go to N/A:

https://i.imgur.com/mxjKcPe.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MjWXXZd.jpg

No drives appear in BIOS and I cannot get into the RAID menu pressing "Ctrl+I" during boot.

Can anyone help me out with this?

[Mal3vol3nt]

If your setting up windows on those 6 drives try this (SSD/HHD setup).
F2;
load bios
Advance menu:
Set SATA to RAID
Boot menu:
Set CSM to disable
Set other OS to windows UEFI
*Save***
F2;
load bios again
Advance menu:
Scroll to the very bottom and you will see raidexpert2. Create your raid array then save when your done (dont forget to load raid drivers during windows install).
Pretty sure that’s alll I did to get my setup going.

[c0febean]

Mal3vol3nt wrote:
If your setting up windows on those 6 drives try this (SSD/HHD setup).
F2;
load bios
Advance menu:
Set SATA to RAID
Boot menu:
Set CSM to disable
Set other OS to windows UEFI
*Save***
F2;
load bios again
Advance menu:
Scroll to the very bottom and you will see raidexpert2. Create your raid array then save when your done (dont forget to load raid drivers during windows install).
Pretty sure that’s alll I did to get my setup going.

That did the trick. Thanks. But what RAID Drivers do I need to select for Windows 10 Professional 64bit?

[Ljugtomten]

c0febean wrote:
That did the trick. Thanks. But what RAID Drivers do I need to select for Windows 10 Professional 64bit?

They are included in the AMD Chipset driver package and can be extracted from there 🙂

[c0febean]

Ljugtomten wrote:
They are included in the AMD Chipset driver package and can be extracted from there 🙂

I downloaded those but Windows 10 doesn't show anything up and doesn't show my RAID drives.

[Mal3vol3nt]

Not sure if you already figured it out since it’s been a few days.
Their is a Windows 10 amd raid drivers installation download you need to get “windows 10 f6 raid drivers” or something close to that. It has the bottom and top drivers. Your just going to use the bottom. In Windows 10 setup when you decide what drives to install windows on you will be presented with a bunch of drives (partitions) that has nothing to do with your raid array you created in bios. Leave it alone. Don’t delete it or format anything. You will notice the button below that says “load drivers”. Browse for that f6 raid driver on your usb drive and load it. It will pop up normally 3 versions of the same driver...just pick one as they are all the same...here comes the fun part..do it two more times to load 2 more drivers from the same directory (you should have loaded a total of three drivers)..raid file and a config file...you now should see your raid array listed and install windows like normal...

[c0febean]

It would appear that there is a bug in the mainboard that doesn't provide functional RAID. I will post another thread about this.