new build raid ssd problems

[allen337]

Bought new system and think i might be missing something. Can we not run ssd in raid as boot drives? I have 2 0cz agility sata 2 90 gig drives i want to use in raid for win 7 64 bit. I managed to get them in raid and operating system installed but once reboot one or the other looses connection motherboard doesnt see it. Even using ide mode now to get win 7 installed once i reboot every 2-3rd time it looses the drive. ok system specs are

Asus Z87 pro
I7 4770k
2x OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD3-2AGT90G.RF 3.5" 90GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
crucial 4x2 gig ddr3 1600 1.65v 8-8-8-24
Powercolor PCS+ AX7870
Ive tried messing with memory timings to no avail even default and loose timings any help appreciated

 

[shovenose]

Hi,
You need to put the controller in RAID mode in BIOS not IDE mode.

 

[allen337]

I had it setup in raid mode and both drives would be recognised until windows installed then having troubles with the motherboard seeing the drives after windows installed

 

[Aquinus]

I had it setup in raid mode and both drives would be recognised until windows installed then having troubles with the motherboard seeing the drives after windows installed

Do you mean it gets detected when it boots off the DVD and after it copies files and everything and reboots for the very first time to boot from the RAID it doesn't work?

 

[allen337]

I installed from usb drive and when start putting drivers on for the motherboard and rebooting it doesnt detect the drives anylonger. Whats funnie is it might be one drive one time and the other the next time. I will see the raid failed in the intel raid utility that pops up and olly shows one drive or 0 drives then after reboot again they both or maybe 1 will show up

 

[Aquinus]

I installed from usb drive and when start putting drivers on for the motherboard and rebooting it doesnt detect the drives anylonger.

So it finished installing and you go to install drivers and after installing the chipset drivers and restart it boots and does... what?

Your posts are a little confusing and incoherent. For the sake of clarity I would explain from beginning to end, exactly what you're doing and exactly what the results are so we're all on the same page here.

 

[allen337]

Ok
I go into bios enable raid with the 2 drives connected hit ctrl + i to enter intel raid setup configure them as raid 0 and 128 stripe save and exit and boot to usb drive with win 7 64 bit windows sees the drives as one drive 160gb and installs windows 7 64 bit. once at desktop and start installing drivers, chipset,usb 3.0 , audio, video etc, at each reboot after installing a driver windows or the motherboard will not see the drives either only sees 1 drive or maybe no drives at all. After another reboot it may see both and continue to windows and let me install another driver and it starts all over again

 

[Aquinus]

...and the Intel RAID OPROM says nothing about an error? If a RAID-0 failed due to having a bad drive it would say that there was an error there and wouldn't let you use the RAID until you did something about it. My X79/C600 will let you set it back to normal if that happens but it doesn't randomly come and go.

When you try to boot when it "stops working" what exactly does the error say?

 

[allen337]

no boot device and yes i can see where the raid array failed but like i said if i reboot again go into bios and do nothing but save and exit it will change and see both drives or maybe just one of them. Now installing windows update on one drive as ide and its loosing it every boot now. Once i go into bios and just save and exit it will see the drive again. I think i might need to download and redo the bios on this motherboard it already has the latest one but somethings wrong.

 

[allen337]

did have one issue with the Z87-A, as well as every other Z87 chipset motherboard we have used so far. My "old" 120GB Corsair F120 SSDs that we have used for testing motherboards caused big issues. On the ASUS Z87 motherboards, the F120 drives would work, but could be slow or not recognized, or cause boot issues, or simply not been seen by the BIOS or the OS. Plugging the Corsair F120 SSDs into the Intel motherboard shipped with the Core i7-4770K left us with nothing. The Intel motherboard would not see these drives at all. I reported this back to ASUS and it replicated the issue in-house and sent us over a Beta BIOS (as referred to earlier) that fixed the issue. We had already moved onto putting new Samsung Pro SSDs into commission by then as our testing platform needed to be updated and we needed to get to work on Haswell. Letting Intel know about this problem it originally expressed it had not seen any issues, but later came back to say:

 

[allen337]

above post was a quote from a review. I have fixed it where I can use the ssd as windows drive actually i downgraded the bios from one asus dont even show to the first release bios