As in my title, I have an NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI board.
I have 2 WD Raptor 10k rpm 150 GB drives set up in RAID 0 (enabled RAID in BIOS and the "F10" RAID setup area
and the 2 SATA channels they're on. No problems.
I have now a 300 GB drive which the system calls "NVIDIA STRIPE 279.47G"
My OS (Win 7 x64) and all my programs reside on it. No problems with anything.
Now, I installed 2 Seagate 7200.12 320 GB drives and set them up as a new (2nd)
RAID 0 array. All set up as before with no problems at all. (but see below)
The BIOS recognizes the 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates. Like I keep repeating, no problems at all.
Boot-up screen reports 2 healthy RAID 0 arrays.
I booted into Acronis Disk Director 11 with it's bootable CD and initialized and formatted the 2
new Seagate drives, which it recognized and accomplished it's mission with no problems at all.
HOWEVER, when I boot into Win 7, there are no drives except my original WD Raptor array!
NOWHERE is my Seagate array to be found (Device Manager, "Computer" hard drive listing, Disk Management,
nor any benchmark, AIDAx64 Extreme, HD Tach, HD Tune, CrystalDiskInfo, command prompt, CrystalDiskMark,
or any other program) at all.
Turning the computer completely off and letting it sit for a little while (per the advice of a poster
on another forum) and back on, still no joy.
I see here in the Tom's Hardware forums that the 680i will indeed utilize 2 RAID 0 arrrays at once,
which I thought may be the problem initially, that the board simply didn't support 2 arrays at once.
Does anyone have ANY idea at all what my problem may be?
Per one other post I saw, I may have to Ghost my present Win 7 and program setup, then try re-installing
Windows from scratch, whence it will detect and use the 2 arrays at once.
I seriously hate to have to do that since I have a TON of programs to re-install if I do that (takes about
2-3 days work to get it all back.
Of course, I can't try that and if it works, Ghost my current setup back, since that will probably result
in the same problem I have now.
I do have the most current NVIDIA drivers installed, Win 7 updates, etc.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Yours,
Hugh
BTW, here are the results I get with benchmarking, if it helps to figure anything out
(this is the one and only array the OS now sees, the WD Raptors)
Results are pretty similar, except Burst, which is probably due to some differing algorithm)
1) HD Tach v3 (Quick bench only, since Long Bench almost always gives very similar results)
Burst / Average read / Access time
229 MB/s / 145 MB/s / 8.3ms
2) HD Tune Pro v5
Burst / Average read / Access time / Minimum / Maximum
120 MB/s / 135 MB/s / 8.3ms / 102 MB/s / 168 MB/s
- Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate SP1
- EVGA (nVidia) 680i SLI (122-CK-NF68)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4 GHz, OC to 3.2 GHz (extremely stable)
- 4 GB OCZ Raptor DDR2 PC2-6400 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 2T(will not OC at all)
- EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB (OC Core/Shader/Memory to 650/1505/950. Can't OC much above this.
Oddly, if you start to get too carried away, the 1st thing you'll notice is ripping and "artifacting" the Sidebar.
Whole Desktop ripping next if you keep it up, then complete BSOD)
- HP CDDVDW TS-H653R CD/DVD burner
- Creative SB Audigy 24-bit sound card (so-so, but better than onboard sound)
- Antec TruePower Trio 650 watt PS
- Zalman CNPS9700LED CPU Cooler (the huge one. Says "Minimized weight" but seems like it weighs 10 pounds.
Almost appears to take up about 1/3 of the inside of your case. However, it maintains (never above)
about 50-55C at 100% burn-in. This particular CPU has a Tjmax of 80C, but I've never gotten within
25-30C of that)
- Generic thermal grease from Radio Shack (Yep)
- Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel case (I love this baby. Has a huge 200mm fan in the top of it and 3x
120mm fans included)
.
I have 2 WD Raptor 10k rpm 150 GB drives set up in RAID 0 (enabled RAID in BIOS and the "F10" RAID setup area
and the 2 SATA channels they're on. No problems.
I have now a 300 GB drive which the system calls "NVIDIA STRIPE 279.47G"
My OS (Win 7 x64) and all my programs reside on it. No problems with anything.
Now, I installed 2 Seagate 7200.12 320 GB drives and set them up as a new (2nd)
RAID 0 array. All set up as before with no problems at all. (but see below)
The BIOS recognizes the 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates. Like I keep repeating, no problems at all.
Boot-up screen reports 2 healthy RAID 0 arrays.
I booted into Acronis Disk Director 11 with it's bootable CD and initialized and formatted the 2
new Seagate drives, which it recognized and accomplished it's mission with no problems at all.
HOWEVER, when I boot into Win 7, there are no drives except my original WD Raptor array!
NOWHERE is my Seagate array to be found (Device Manager, "Computer" hard drive listing, Disk Management,
nor any benchmark, AIDAx64 Extreme, HD Tach, HD Tune, CrystalDiskInfo, command prompt, CrystalDiskMark,
or any other program) at all.
Turning the computer completely off and letting it sit for a little while (per the advice of a poster
on another forum) and back on, still no joy.
I see here in the Tom's Hardware forums that the 680i will indeed utilize 2 RAID 0 arrrays at once,
which I thought may be the problem initially, that the board simply didn't support 2 arrays at once.
Does anyone have ANY idea at all what my problem may be?
Per one other post I saw, I may have to Ghost my present Win 7 and program setup, then try re-installing
Windows from scratch, whence it will detect and use the 2 arrays at once.
I seriously hate to have to do that since I have a TON of programs to re-install if I do that (takes about
2-3 days work to get it all back.
Of course, I can't try that and if it works, Ghost my current setup back, since that will probably result
in the same problem I have now.
I do have the most current NVIDIA drivers installed, Win 7 updates, etc.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Yours,
Hugh
BTW, here are the results I get with benchmarking, if it helps to figure anything out
(this is the one and only array the OS now sees, the WD Raptors)
Results are pretty similar, except Burst, which is probably due to some differing algorithm)
1) HD Tach v3 (Quick bench only, since Long Bench almost always gives very similar results)
Burst / Average read / Access time
229 MB/s / 145 MB/s / 8.3ms
2) HD Tune Pro v5
Burst / Average read / Access time / Minimum / Maximum
120 MB/s / 135 MB/s / 8.3ms / 102 MB/s / 168 MB/s
- Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate SP1
- EVGA (nVidia) 680i SLI (122-CK-NF68)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4 GHz, OC to 3.2 GHz (extremely stable)
- 4 GB OCZ Raptor DDR2 PC2-6400 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 2T(will not OC at all)
- EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB (OC Core/Shader/Memory to 650/1505/950. Can't OC much above this.
Oddly, if you start to get too carried away, the 1st thing you'll notice is ripping and "artifacting" the Sidebar.
Whole Desktop ripping next if you keep it up, then complete BSOD)
- HP CDDVDW TS-H653R CD/DVD burner
- Creative SB Audigy 24-bit sound card (so-so, but better than onboard sound)
- Antec TruePower Trio 650 watt PS
- Zalman CNPS9700LED CPU Cooler (the huge one. Says "Minimized weight" but seems like it weighs 10 pounds.
Almost appears to take up about 1/3 of the inside of your case. However, it maintains (never above)
about 50-55C at 100% burn-in. This particular CPU has a Tjmax of 80C, but I've never gotten within
25-30C of that)
- Generic thermal grease from Radio Shack (Yep)
- Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel case (I love this baby. Has a huge 200mm fan in the top of it and 3x
120mm fans included)
.