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[Bluey]

Hi
I have just purchased an ASRock Z68 Extreme 4 and am having problems installing Windows 7 64-bit. A little background - I have 2 X WDC Caviar Green 2Tb SATA 3 discs that I want to use in a RAID 0 array. I have a 60Gb OCZ Agility 3 SATA 3 SSD that I eventually want to use as a front-end cache to the the RAID 0 array via the Intel Smart Response technology.

I can successfully install Windows 7 on a single disk in IDE Mode. When I try to use RAID mode the installation fails. It starts out alright but falls over with an error that says it can't complete the installation on this hardware configuration. When I had a successful IDE installation I managed to update the BIOS to EUFI 1.3.

One other problem I have is that when I run the ASRock utility disk before Windows installation it offers me the option to copy RAID drivers to the floppy disk. The only problem is I don't have a floppy disk drive and haven't had one on a PC for at least five years.

Any thoughts about where I might go from here? is there any way at boot level to get the system to recognize a USB flash drive?

[alan1476]

Hi I am not AsRock support, but have you used those SSDs before? I think it might work using the secure erase feature on the OCZ Toolbox but you need to have another PC with window 7 to do that or do it in Linux. That board is suppossed to be a good a one from what I have read. I really hope you get a responce from AsRock because they never answered my post . Have you tried an Install in ACHI Mode? Then install the raid drivers from the Asrock site.

[burnerchief]

hi there

i have a problem with a H67M-GE/M/ASR board

first a bought in februari a H67M-GE RGVSA board too bad the sandy bridge chipset wich gave the sata 300 problem that stopt working after a few weeks.

tried a swap for a new board (tip! look out with the travel protect shield for the processor connector it wreckt a pin and now its up for coulance rma instead of a simple swap grrrrr)


ended up with buying a new one for the time beeing same board but with the improved sandy bridge.

BUT i use a ocz ssd 120gb 300 vertex2 worked like a charm on the old board on the 600 slot no problems.
the second sata 300 hard disk worked also fine on the 600 slot.
dvd drive on 300 slot (wich stopped working after a few weeks)

on the new board with cold boot the ssd is not recognised by the bios and a boot fail.
go into bios end reboot ssd is found
setting boot options like it should and warm boot works like a charm
till next cold boot..........

putting the ssd alone on the 600 slot same problem.
putting the ssd on the 300 slot and the hdd on 600 slot no boot
putting all on the 300 slots problem solved.

my question from rain in drop? cannot use the 600 slots in this way...
on the 600 slot the ssd is a bit faster

ahci enabled
bios version 1.40
ssd bios 1.33
win7 ultimate
use onboard video of the i5-2500k
4gb dd3 1333 dual channel kit

[alan1476]

PuT SSD in in Port 0.

[burnerchief]

PuT SSD in in Port 0.

thanks for reply but been there done that no go, not in port 0 or 1

bios does not see the ssd at cold boot in port 0 or 1

[alan1476]

Are you sure you initalized the SSD? Did you reinstall the OS when you changed Boards? Sometimes with SSDs they have to be erased by a special program before you can reinstall the OS again.

[burnerchief]

Are you sure you initalized the SSD? Did you reinstall the OS when you changed Boards? Sometimes with SSDs they have to be erased by a special program before you can reinstall the OS again.

yes i initalized the ssd and reinstalled the os just to be certain seems to be a slot problem
seems also i am not the only one with issues with sata ports

Asrock p67 Extreme 4, issue with sata3 ports

[gorgeto]

Hello There
im glad that i found this forum
i have motherboard AsRock M3N78D
so i need sata2 driver(WINDOWS 7 64BIT) for raid mode
i'm not familiar with this stuff so i want my hdd to work faster
thanks and big regards

[Tibetan]

Hello!

I have a Fatal1ty Pro 67 boards and a Auzentech 7.1 Bravura soundcard with the latest driver. One PCI-E slot Windows7 Pro64 fail to see the sound card, so the driver did not go up. The sound card is good. What is wrong? I need help fast!

Thank you!

[alan1476]

Try a different slot. I bet that works, and also make sure you enable Plug and Play in the bios.