Hello,
First time poster, trying to get help with why my Z77X-UD5H isn't being cooperative with me creating a RAID 5 array.
CPU: Intel Core i5-2550k (stock)
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (Rev. 1.0)
Boot HDD: 1x Seagate Barracuda 1TB disk.
RAID HDD: 3x Seagate Barracuda 1TB disks.
OS: Windows 7 Professional
Here is what has happened so far:
- Installed Windows, got my OS and all the drivers updated.
- Rebooted, went into UEFI Advanced BIOS, and set SATA Mode Selection to RAID (it was AHCI).
- Created a RAID volume with the other 3 disks that I had (all the same model/capacity), set the Strip size to 64 KB as per the BIOS's suggestion (in the help window at the bottom of the screen).
- After exiting from the RAID configuration screen, the screen was black (it didn't go back to the BIOS, like when you Save/Exit the BIOS and your machine goes back and then boots your OS).
- I did a hard reboot, Windows started to load....and then the boot loop kicks in at the Windows splash screen.
A few things I've tried:
- Turned off the Gigabyte splash screen. When booting, all I see is "American Megatrends", NOTHING on the black screen other than that, then it shows the brief (.5 seconds) RAID configuration (to hit CTRL + I to enter the utility), goes back to "American Megatrends" for a split second, then goes to Windows splash...then reboots and loops.
Because Windows doesn't load right, it WILL ask me (after the first reboot) if I would like to
- Startup Repair: Gives me the loading bar while it loads up the necessary files, then reboots.
- Start Normally: Starts to display the Windows splash logo, but freezes/reboots just prior to entering Windows.
I've tried re-installing all of the drivers from Gigabyte's web site GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-Z77X-UD5H (rev. 1.0).
I've tried doing a repair with my Windows 7 disk.
I've tried setting the SATA Mode Selection back to AHCI, but all it does then is boots normally, yet it only sees 3 drives and not the RAID volume.
According to my manual, here is the setup for which drives are plugged into what SATA ports:
Neither of these drives are actual SATA3 drives, at least I didn't see anything on the box about it. But SATA3 is backwards compatible so that shouldn't be an issue, right?
DVD: SATA3 port 0
Boot HDD: SATA3 port 1
These are the drives that I want to use for RAID:
HDD #1: SATA2 port 2
HDD #2: SATA2 port 3
HDD #3: SATA2 port 4
According to the manual, those SATA2 ports support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.
Should I be connecting them somewhere else? Or could I be installing the drivers wrong? As far as I could tell, it was just a "extract from compressed file that was downloaded, run the setup as administrator, reboot when asked, done".
This is becoming a pain to set up. I would have just bought and crammed a 3TB drive in there for storage, but I've had too many disks end up with errors in the past to trust all of my data to just one.
Please help?
- Neb
First time poster, trying to get help with why my Z77X-UD5H isn't being cooperative with me creating a RAID 5 array.
CPU: Intel Core i5-2550k (stock)
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (Rev. 1.0)
Boot HDD: 1x Seagate Barracuda 1TB disk.
RAID HDD: 3x Seagate Barracuda 1TB disks.
OS: Windows 7 Professional
Here is what has happened so far:
- Installed Windows, got my OS and all the drivers updated.
- Rebooted, went into UEFI Advanced BIOS, and set SATA Mode Selection to RAID (it was AHCI).
- Created a RAID volume with the other 3 disks that I had (all the same model/capacity), set the Strip size to 64 KB as per the BIOS's suggestion (in the help window at the bottom of the screen).
- After exiting from the RAID configuration screen, the screen was black (it didn't go back to the BIOS, like when you Save/Exit the BIOS and your machine goes back and then boots your OS).
- I did a hard reboot, Windows started to load....and then the boot loop kicks in at the Windows splash screen.
A few things I've tried:
- Turned off the Gigabyte splash screen. When booting, all I see is "American Megatrends", NOTHING on the black screen other than that, then it shows the brief (.5 seconds) RAID configuration (to hit CTRL + I to enter the utility), goes back to "American Megatrends" for a split second, then goes to Windows splash...then reboots and loops.
Because Windows doesn't load right, it WILL ask me (after the first reboot) if I would like to
- Startup Repair: Gives me the loading bar while it loads up the necessary files, then reboots.
- Start Normally: Starts to display the Windows splash logo, but freezes/reboots just prior to entering Windows.
I've tried re-installing all of the drivers from Gigabyte's web site GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-Z77X-UD5H (rev. 1.0).
I've tried doing a repair with my Windows 7 disk.
I've tried setting the SATA Mode Selection back to AHCI, but all it does then is boots normally, yet it only sees 3 drives and not the RAID volume.
According to my manual, here is the setup for which drives are plugged into what SATA ports:
Neither of these drives are actual SATA3 drives, at least I didn't see anything on the box about it. But SATA3 is backwards compatible so that shouldn't be an issue, right?
DVD: SATA3 port 0
Boot HDD: SATA3 port 1
These are the drives that I want to use for RAID:
HDD #1: SATA2 port 2
HDD #2: SATA2 port 3
HDD #3: SATA2 port 4
According to the manual, those SATA2 ports support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.
Should I be connecting them somewhere else? Or could I be installing the drivers wrong? As far as I could tell, it was just a "extract from compressed file that was downloaded, run the setup as administrator, reboot when asked, done".
This is becoming a pain to set up. I would have just bought and crammed a 3TB drive in there for storage, but I've had too many disks end up with errors in the past to trust all of my data to just one.
Please help?
- Neb
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