Samsung EVO 840 in raid 0, unable to reinstall windows due to page_fault BSOD

[notimepro]

Hello,

I'll try to keep this short, but I feel like I need to be thorough just in case I am missing something.

I recently pulled out my desktop for some spring cleaning and to install samsung evo 840 250gb drives. During this process I pulled my CPU and graphics cards ( all water cooled.) and cleaned them. I also cleaned re-mounted all of the cooling blocks.

I now have three raid arrays

Ports 0-1 250gb drives in raid 0 (This is where windows 7 used to be installed)
Ports 2-3 1tb drives in raid 1 ( These are my data drives )
Ports 4-5 the new SSDs in raid 0 ( This is where I would like to install window 7)

I was able to set up the arrays, delete the partition on the old raid 0 drives, and create a new one on the SSDs. The install goes smoothly until the last step "completing installation" where I get a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area BSOD. After it rebooted, I let it try one more time and i got the same error.

Now I am unable to boot to the installation disk, a bootable USB stick with ubuntu or any of my drives without it getting stuck on "Verifying DMI pool data". My raid 1 array is now showing "status: verify" as well.

If I switch my SATA controller from raid mode to IDE mode I am able to boot normally again, but I'd rather not lose my raid 1 drive.

I think my tinkering is making it worse at this point... Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Rhinofart]

I would say to keep your system as IDE until you get Windows installed, and updated. Then install the drivers required for the RAID controler, then create the RAID array in BIOS. At that point you can create yourself a "SlipStreamed" installation media that will contain the latest updates, and the drivers for your system. That way, when you install windows the next time, your installation media will automatically contain the drivers for your RAID controlers, and you'll be able to forgo the step of installing in IDE mode, and then changing to RAID of AHCI mode.

 

[notimepro]

I just got back to the machine. It won't boot from the Windows 7 disc at all now. All I can get to is the widows boot manager.

File: \Windows\System32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

I can't get it to boot to my ubuntu flash drive either.

 

[Rhinofart]

So, your system will NOT boot from either the internal Hard Drives, or a USB drive? The boot order is correct in BIOS to allow for USB booting before the Hard Drives?