Boot Issue

Hi,

I'm running a GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard, 2Gb Ram and using the RAID controller to mirror two 320Gb WDC disks.

If I attach a 40Gb IDE drive to the system, I can load Win7 Pro fine and see the 320Gb raid perfectly.

If I boot of the raid controller, I can get to the first Win7 Pro reboot on installation yet it won't load. It just sits at "Starting Windows". If I use safemode, it stops on CI.sys and again just waits for something.

I'm using the JMicron driver as the Gigabyte driver caused a randomly different crash each time.

This just doesn't make any sense.

Win7 is allergic to RAID. You'd be better off removing RAID, using a single HD with AHCI controller setting.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, having a few issues getting online ,)

Right, system spec is:

GeForce 7600 GS
The IDE drive is a Maxtor 6L060J3
The RAID-1 is 2x WDC3200YS-01PGB0
AMD x2 4800+

Boot-wise, I can see all drives in BIOS. When I install win7 on the RAID-1 I set it as 2nd priority after the DVD. I tend to unplug the IDE to save the installer getting confused. Win7 will install then die on first restart.

If I do a completely seperate install on the IDE disk, again removing the RAID and changing the boot priority, I have a slow but working system. If I plug the RAID in, the IDE based install will see the RAID-1 disk.