I put together the following system in June:
[CPU] Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GH
[RAM] 6GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 Triple channel
[MOBO] Asus Rampage II Extreme
[GPU] GTX 285 Zotac
[HDD] WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe
[PSU] Corsair TX850W
[Case] Antec 1200
[CPU Cooler] Dark Knight
[OS] Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64
I originally got just one WD Green 1.0 tb HD and was pretty happy with it, but then thought I needed to see what a Raid0 would do to speed up reboots, etc, so I bought two more HDs. The system with WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe worked very well as I was configuring it, until I updated the video driver. After that, I could only see the center of the screen image, losing the outer icons, losing the start button, etc. I went into device manager and clicked on 'roll back driver' which did not fix anything. It did not matter what monitor resolution I used, I could never see the edges.
In case I had a hardware issue, I went back to using the WD Green 1.0 tb HD. But the video still works fine on that install, so it seems to be the video driver on the install using the WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe. I have no reason to think that raid0 has anything to do with this problem
I have spent a bit of time going over other posts on how to remove video drivers and have followed detailed instructions including using drivercleaner in safe mode.
I am about ready to reformat the drives and start over but thought someone out there might know of something, or maybe lots of things I am overlooking. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
[CPU] Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GH
[RAM] 6GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 Triple channel
[MOBO] Asus Rampage II Extreme
[GPU] GTX 285 Zotac
[HDD] WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe
[PSU] Corsair TX850W
[Case] Antec 1200
[CPU Cooler] Dark Knight
[OS] Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64
I originally got just one WD Green 1.0 tb HD and was pretty happy with it, but then thought I needed to see what a Raid0 would do to speed up reboots, etc, so I bought two more HDs. The system with WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe worked very well as I was configuring it, until I updated the video driver. After that, I could only see the center of the screen image, losing the outer icons, losing the start button, etc. I went into device manager and clicked on 'roll back driver' which did not fix anything. It did not matter what monitor resolution I used, I could never see the edges.
In case I had a hardware issue, I went back to using the WD Green 1.0 tb HD. But the video still works fine on that install, so it seems to be the video driver on the install using the WD Black 1.0tb x2 raid 0 stripe. I have no reason to think that raid0 has anything to do with this problem
I have spent a bit of time going over other posts on how to remove video drivers and have followed detailed instructions including using drivercleaner in safe mode.
I am about ready to reformat the drives and start over but thought someone out there might know of something, or maybe lots of things I am overlooking. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.