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Started By krom, Dec 11 2011 08:14 AM
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#1 krom

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Posted 11 December 2011 - 08:14 AM

I'm having a problem booting into my OS since I installed and configured a RAID 5 array with a Highpoint 2680 card. The array creation process went well and the card recognizes the array but right after leaving the 2680 screen during POST all I get is a blinking cursor. If I unhook the drives form the 2680 I can boot just fine. In the system BIOS I have the proper drive designated as the boot drive too. The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 10:17 AM

A couple of updates. I did update the 2680 to the latest firmware v1.1 but that didn't help. Also disabled int13 as @Timekills suggested in this earlier post:

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I didn't notice any speed up during boot on the 2680 screen during post. In any case that didn't help.

I do notice that the array is labeled as uninitialized in the 2680 screen during boot/post. Not sure if that makes a difference but I don't see any place to initialize the array.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 10:31 AM

Is the board set to AHCI or RAID?
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 10:58 AM

If by board you mean the mobo vs. the 2680 then it's set to AHCI...but I'm running the RAID from the 2680 not the motherboard. Do I still need to set it to RAID? The drives attached to the SATA ports on the mother board are not in a RAID configuration.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 11:16 AM

Does the 2680 card show in the boot order? If so, put the SATA drive in the first position.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 11:22 AM

My boot drive is an OCZ Vertex 2 and it is set in the motherboard BIOS as the boot device.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 01:29 PM

Interesting update, I had a separate spinning disk connected to the mobo sata ports (this was my d: drive). Since nothing else was working I decided to disconnect it (I was clutching at straws at this point). That took care of the problem. I'm not sure why that made a difference but it did.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 10:21 PM

That is pretty strange, but hey, in PC's anything is possible. Glad it fixed your problem.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:02 PM

Not sure if the RAID card was a red herring given what fixed the problem, but another way to speed up your boot time and prevent the RAID card from being checked for boot is to enable the Intel RAID option in BIOS, even if you're not using it as RAID. It will bypass the RAID card check. Of course, that also means you'd have to disable if you needed to get into the RAID setup before the OS booted.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:04 PM

I'm thinking there was a boot partition on the D drive.
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 06:07 PM

Would be interesting to try the D drive and the RR connected alternately, to confirm the system can boot if only 1 of them is connected, and then with both connected again, to confirm there is some interaction going on that's causing the boot issue.

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