Guest cloud_171 Posted September 16, 2005 Posted September 16, 2005 I got 3x hitachi drives and installed them in raid 0. I reformatted everything and for some reason it wrote boot sectors on my master ATA drive that I just use for storage. So there was no way to boot without my ATA drive being on top of the boot priority. So I decided to reformat the raid 0 and had windows installed and got to the gui of it. After that whenever it tries to load windows it automatically restarts and gives me the option to boot in safe mode, normally, etc. Safe mode still makes it reboot. I did memtest on my ram and they are fine. The timings were already loose, they are 2.5-3-3-7. My ram is suppose to run at 2-2-2-5 default. I've deleted the raid array and set it up again with a fresh install of windows and still the same problem. I just ghosted one of my 80 gigs and they are booting fine so it is something wrong with the raid. The only difference that I can think of is the driver floppy I used. I used the raid drivers that I downloaded off DFI's site and for the recent install I copied the drivers off of nvida's latest unified nforce drivers. Think that would affect anything? I am pretty much out of ideas after this. Any suggestions? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight Game Posted September 16, 2005 Posted September 16, 2005 Whenever you install xp, only have the drive(s) plugged into the board that you want to have the OS installed on. For some reason it does put stuff on all drives connected, and if you remove one of those drives, it won't boot. Don't plug in any additional drives until the OS and all drivers are completely loaded. I use the raid drivers from the newest official release (6.66) from nvidia's website, copied them onto floppy, and they work fine. Upon boot, does the raid thing at the beginning say "healthy"? Did you set it up the array as "bootable"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cloud_171 Posted September 16, 2005 Posted September 16, 2005 yeah the second time I disconnected the other 2 drives. I set it as bootable and it does say its healthy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ark_keeper Posted September 16, 2005 Posted September 16, 2005 Hmm, make sure you have your optical drive in the secondary IDE channel. Mine was giving me similar problems. Or it may be a corrupt boot.ini Check computerhope.com for info about fixing your boot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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