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if the raid got a problem you see on system startup, cause the raid controller check the healthy of all drives and the controller himself.   the most issues are based on the new x38 chipset cause the drivers are not really finshed. think so. but you have this with ervery part of brand new hardware.   at least i would use the dell branded driver, i think they are customized to dell.   cu dschieses   XPS 420 - Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz -...

if the raid got a problem you see on system startup, cause the raid controller check the healthy of all drives and the controller himself.   the most issues are based on the new x38 chipset cause the drivers are not really finshed. think so. but you have this with ervery part of brand new hardware.   at least i would use the dell branded driver, i think they are customized to dell.   cu dschieses   XPS 420 - Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz -...

This is to do with an earlier post about error & time out problems related to iaStor (Event viewer).  When my PC freezes, I also find an "error Occured" on port xyz is flagged during bootup.    One of the recommended Dell downloads for the XPS420 SATA drives in Raid configurations is the two Intel Matrix Storage Manager files V7.8 (Windows & ROM BIOS integration).  If you download the BIOS version and...

This is to do with an earlier post about error & time out problems related to iaStor (Event viewer).  When my PC freezes, I also find an "error Occured" on port xyz is flagged during bootup.    One of the recommended Dell downloads for the XPS420 SATA drives in Raid configurations is the two Intel Matrix Storage Manager files V7.8 (Windows & ROM BIOS integration).  If you download the BIOS version and...

Hi, it will be interested to hear about your hw diag. Check the HDD's for erros.   cu dschieses   XPS 420 - Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz - 2x 2GB OCZ gold memory 800MHz DDR2 - 2x HDD Hitachi Deskstar HDT725050 (Raid 0) - Blue-Ray Philips drive - nVidia Geforce 8800 GTX - Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - Tv Tuner and AVIO / Accellerator - BIOS A03 - Windows Vista Ultimate

Hi, it will be interested to hear about your hw diag. Check the HDD's for erros.   cu dschieses   XPS 420 - Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz - 2x 2GB OCZ gold memory 800MHz DDR2 - 2x HDD Hitachi Deskstar HDT725050 (Raid 0) - Blue-Ray Philips drive - nVidia Geforce 8800 GTX - Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - Tv Tuner and AVIO / Accellerator - BIOS A03 - Windows Vista Ultimate

I did run some of those tests on my hard drives but nothing showed up. So I think they are healthy.  Its unlikely that two HDD's would breakdown at the same time.    When problems occur, the Event Viewer always points to multiple problems with iaStor, time out errors that prevent services from restarting & sometimes registry leakage (whatever that means).  IaStor.sys, part of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, is what...

I did run some of those tests on my hard drives but nothing showed up. So I think they are healthy.  Its unlikely that two HDD's would breakdown at the same time.    When problems occur, the Event Viewer always points to multiple problems with iaStor, time out errors that prevent services from restarting & sometimes registry leakage (whatever that means).  IaStor.sys, part of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, is what...