new raid0 setup, but no option to install windows to drive

[gingerbee]

no it's the newest southbridge for the x58 boards. it will do just fine. no all on board raid setups are all software.
(p.s just to let you know hardware raid cards are upwards of 400 dollars. on board is just fine. Most of us here running raid using on board i believe.)

[gingerbee]

and there you go another classified owner.

[kruzn4evr]

I think I know what the problem is or at least where to start, hey?...I sold ya the dam thing!...lol...I'll try my best to help out

[gingerbee]

@kruzn4evr are the jmicron sata ports raid bootable ( just curious )

[kruzn4evr]

Honestly?...don't know, I don't use them with the G-Skills Falcons. I disabled the jmicrons in the bios and plugged the drives into the reg sata ports and then set the raid array, worked like a charm. But I'm not sure what it is he's trying to set up so I'd prefer to talk to him and see if I can help or not. I'm not really that experienced with raid but I found setting up my G-Skills on this board to be very easy and with great results.

[gingerbee]

thanks for the info ( i just use the south bridge so far for my raid setups too ) i myself have never tried to use the jmicron ports or the gsata ports for booting a raid setup? Curious

[Jake_HT]

Dude.. take 20 minutes, and make your custom windows disc using vlite with your raid drivers on it.. seriously, it will WORK, be done with this crap. I spent a whole weekend failing at it too, don't even do it. Just use vlite, TRUST ME!

[gingerbee]

jakeht's got a point can make things easier if you know what your doing.

[kruzn4evr]

The raid is up and running, took 2 minutes, loading win7 rc and all should be good

[gingerbee]

nice good to hear.

[quikgp]

YEAH! its up and running! finally.....stupid jmicron and thanks Kruzn!

(PS the Windows 7 RC is really nice...much better than the beta I first downloaded)

[gingerbee]

so was the problem with the jmicron and if so could you elaborate more ( was it a bootiong problem) just curious to find out what if any third party raid ports work for more then just data raids
( just for your info this is just for my own curiosity i was not able to get the gsata ports to boot a raid0 on my own ds4. I guess there data only)

[quikgp]

the problem was with the jmicron, but not a booting issue. I believe (as kruzn explained it to me) that the Jmicron controller on the motherboard was interfering with the Indilux controller in the SSD's.

The other issue could have been due to the "warm" copy of Vista x64 I was trying to install. I was holding off buying it because I'm not a huge fan of vista. I'd rather wait until the release of windows 7 64 bit...but as kruzn pointed out to me "why dont you just download the release candidate...its free". Damn did I feel like an idiot after that!

so anyways, long story short, I"m now up and running (thanks again Kruzn)

[gingerbee]

wow so the jmicron controller chip did not like the Indilux chip i wonder if it's programed to be jealous. ha ha could not help myself

[kruzn4evr]

Originally Posted by quikgp

so anyways, long story short, I"m now up and running (thanks again Kruzn)

No problem quikgp, glad I could help

ginger? he jmicron chip isn't jealous, it just doesn't like to play with others