[MaadDaawg]

BlaakHaat was cruiding along at 4.999 Ghz last night when it re-booted, except, it didn't reboot.

First it stopped due to a fan error looking for me to press F1, which I did, to only to be told it was checking nvram ???. Never came back so I shut it down hit the clear cmos and tried again. This time it gave me the error message that a windows file was corrupt and I should run chkdsk (on win 7 ??)

Each time I booted the raid card bios installed correctly and the raid was alive and well.

Tried a few more times going through the safe start menu trying self repair, sys restore, and even sfc /scannow ... nothing worked. The system could not even find Windows anymore. I was going to do a clean install, but it couldn't find any disk drives either

WTF - anyone ??

[Witchdoctor]

http://www.pcutilitiespro.com/repair...FUSo4Aods1EwtQ

[MaadDaawg]

Can't get into windows

BIOS recognizes the RAID card and array, but windows does not see any drives at all. Neither my 4 disk array or my storage disk. Tried all the repair solutions ins safe mode but nada.

Booted into system mechanic repair disk but it didn't see the operating system either

Tried to load a fresh install .. didn't see any disks.

[Gunslinger]

I got the same bullshit this weekend on my gaming rig...I was not able to get it to recover or repair.

I saw that link this weekend when googling the problem. Can anyone confirm that app is safe ?

[MaadDaawg]

can you get into your operating system? Mine goes straight to bsod only :(

[GFDuke]

Are the drives and RAID card visible in the bios? I forgot...what motherboard are you on?

[Mr.Scott]

When you say "tried to load a fresh install", what exactly did you do?

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by GFDuke

Are the drives and RAID card visible in the bios? I forgot...what motherboard are you on?

Drives and the RAID card are visible in the BIOS. They're on the R3E black edition where they've worked well for a good amount of time. Windows cannot see the RAID ARRAY

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

When you say "tried to load a fresh install", what exactly did you do?

I put in an install disk and told it to install over the existing OS. It told me it could not install Windows because there were no hard drives in the computer. My other option was to load HDD drivers, but the RAID is controlled by the BIOS of the RAID card

what to do, what to do



I can only get into the safe mode text screen. It cannot self repair, it cannot restore because it says there is no operating system on the computer, if I try to go into safe mode it starts but then reboots, and if I run sfc /scannow it tells me there is already a scannow repair scheduled and to restart to complete the repair... in never completes the repair

[GFDuke]

So when you reset your bios, did you go back in and set it to boot to the RAID card? Grasping at straws here because i have no clue where your setup is at and what your config is. SATA mode set to SATA not RAID right?

Have you gone into the RAID card bios and made sure everything is ok there?

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by GFDuke

So when you reset your bios, did you go back in and set it to boot to the RAID card? Grasping at straws here because i have no clue where your setup is at and what your config is. SATA mode set to SATA not RAID right?

Right now I'm on system defaults. I've reset the boot configuration to boot on the raid card. I've tried starting with an OS that controlls plug n play and one that does not - no diff.

I get a cpu fan error (I've got my ram fan plugged in there?) then when I press F1 to continue it says "loading "vnram" (unless I've pressed the del key or the alternate startup keys first)

Very frustrating

Has an AMD 5870 in it, but I've pulled than and tried an nv 560Ti... no diff