I'm out of ideas on this one, maybe someone can lend some thoughts...
I have an ASUS P5E motherboard and three hard drives. Two Hitachi 2 TB drives I just purchased to mirror together for a storage drive and one Seagate 500 GB system drive. I'm running Windows 2008R2 but that's somewhat irrelevant.
Lastest BIOS update avaliable applied, all SATA drives.
The BIOS has three options, IDE, RAID, and AHCI. When I have it set to IDE Windows will load with all three drives showing up correctly. When I have the BIOS set to RAID or AHCI the BIOS will freeze before the RAID Controller BIOS even loads.
If I unplug my 500GB system drive the computer loads as far as it can without an OS drive in. I was able to enter the RAID utility and mirror the two drives successfully. Once I plug the 500GB back in the system locks up again. I can't even get into the BIOS with the 500GB plugged in.
There's no firmware update for the drives and I'm at a loss as far as what to do, other than software mirror them in Windows which is really not ideal at all.
I have an ASUS P5E motherboard and three hard drives. Two Hitachi 2 TB drives I just purchased to mirror together for a storage drive and one Seagate 500 GB system drive. I'm running Windows 2008R2 but that's somewhat irrelevant.
Lastest BIOS update avaliable applied, all SATA drives.
The BIOS has three options, IDE, RAID, and AHCI. When I have it set to IDE Windows will load with all three drives showing up correctly. When I have the BIOS set to RAID or AHCI the BIOS will freeze before the RAID Controller BIOS even loads.
If I unplug my 500GB system drive the computer loads as far as it can without an OS drive in. I was able to enter the RAID utility and mirror the two drives successfully. Once I plug the 500GB back in the system locks up again. I can't even get into the BIOS with the 500GB plugged in.
There's no firmware update for the drives and I'm at a loss as far as what to do, other than software mirror them in Windows which is really not ideal at all.