Boot issues after lquid cooler upgrade

[CountBogula]

System Specs:
Win 7 64 Pro
AMD FX 8370 Black edition
8GB RAM Hyper X (with 8 more on ice once this is resolved)
Gigabyte 990FXA UD3 mobo
2 Samsung SSD in RAID 0
ASUS GTX 970
600 Watt PS

System boot issues after installing Corsair H100i liquid cooler

I started installing various new components in my PC, added 2 RAM sticks, 2 New WD 1TB reds for a planned RAID 1, 2 new fans, and finally swapped stock cooler for a Corsair H100i. After it was all installed I went to fire it up and first it froze at the starting Windows screen. Rebooted and then it would freeze at BIOS splash screen. Could not enter BIOS. Loosened the cooler per Corsair tech support instructions, to no avail. Reinstalled stock cooler after cleaning and reapplying new paste. Nothing. Cleared the CMOS by shorting the jumpers. Was able to enter BIOS made sure boot settings were correct. Rebooted and was able to get past BIOS to where the RAID controller reads the array. Array is functional and then it goes to boot and hangs. After a minute it states connect boot device and restart or something to that effect.

Any help would be great, I have seen similar threads on here with no real resolution. I am thinking I messed up the MOBO? Maybe the CPU was damaged? Will try Windows advanced recovery just in case the boot files or MBR went haywire. I may reinstall windows on a diff drive and see what happens.

Also POST is good, only one beep. I have swapped out the vid cards and verified they are good, swapped RAM as well. Made sure everything is connected properly, etc. PS is pulling 150ish watts (I have a wattage meter plug) Thanks in advance.

 

[popatim]

after you cleared cmos, you re-enabled raid mode for the sata ports? And set the raid as the primary boot device?
Tried : Disabled secure boot, enabled legacy mode or CSM?

 

[CountBogula]

Yes I re-enabled RAID mode and other settings per the instructions of mobo manual. I ended up installing Win 7 to one of the new empty drives. Then plugged the RAID SSDs back in and windows recognized them as one drive as it should. Was even able to view the data on them. Next step was to set the RAID 0 to boot priority and give it a go. Was able to make it past BIOS and attempted every Windows recovery option, after of course reloading the RAID drivers in the recovery environment. Was unable to recover the build so I am now in the process of wiping the array and rebuilding in order to re-install Windows on the SSDs for RAID 0 again. It appears that the array when corrupt at some point. After I successfully install the OS back to the RAID 0 array, I will attempt Liquid cooler install again and see what’s what.