Hi,
my default drive configuration looked like this: SSD with Windows 7, and two drives paired with Marvell controller into RAID 0. And everything worked just fine.
Yesterday I bought new, bigger and faster SSD, plugged into my PC and installed Windows 8.1. The problem is that my RAID config has some issues:
a. The boot time is terrible, few minutes of Windows logo and white dots. My Windows 7 after 4 years without format worked way better.
b. After my PC finally boots, there are no drives.
c. In Device manager there is nothing about my Raid controller.
d. When I launch scan for hardware changes after another few minutes I get everything as I wanted.
e. After shutdown everything changes back to point a.
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
CPU: Intel i7 950
HDD: 2x 1TB WD Caviar Black
SSD#1: Corsair F60 (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit)
SSD#2: Plextor M6S 256GB (Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit)
RAID Controller model: 88se91xx
On some other thread I found Marvell Raid Utility Installer... which probably causes this problem.
I found this topic: http://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-and-RAID-Drivers.html
however I'm not sure that I install it properly. >64bit Marvell 91xx/92xx SATA3 AHCI/RAID drivers v1.2.0.1041 WHQL<
In device manager I click on my Marvell device, try to update my driver, naviage to unzipped folder and Windows informs me, that my driver is the newest one.
Additional note: Is there a chance, that I did something wrong while connecting my second SSD? I works just fine and all, but I don't trust myself. I connected my SSD into SATA4 on my motherboard: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/098121/20/asus_p6x58de.jpg . Is this right?
Guys, ideas?
my default drive configuration looked like this: SSD with Windows 7, and two drives paired with Marvell controller into RAID 0. And everything worked just fine.
Yesterday I bought new, bigger and faster SSD, plugged into my PC and installed Windows 8.1. The problem is that my RAID config has some issues:
a. The boot time is terrible, few minutes of Windows logo and white dots. My Windows 7 after 4 years without format worked way better.
b. After my PC finally boots, there are no drives.
c. In Device manager there is nothing about my Raid controller.
d. When I launch scan for hardware changes after another few minutes I get everything as I wanted.
e. After shutdown everything changes back to point a.
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
CPU: Intel i7 950
HDD: 2x 1TB WD Caviar Black
SSD#1: Corsair F60 (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit)
SSD#2: Plextor M6S 256GB (Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit)
RAID Controller model: 88se91xx
On some other thread I found Marvell Raid Utility Installer... which probably causes this problem.
I found this topic: http://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-and-RAID-Drivers.html
however I'm not sure that I install it properly. >64bit Marvell 91xx/92xx SATA3 AHCI/RAID drivers v1.2.0.1041 WHQL<
In device manager I click on my Marvell device, try to update my driver, naviage to unzipped folder and Windows informs me, that my driver is the newest one.
Additional note: Is there a chance, that I did something wrong while connecting my second SSD? I works just fine and all, but I don't trust myself. I connected my SSD into SATA4 on my motherboard: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/098121/20/asus_p6x58de.jpg . Is this right?
Guys, ideas?
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus UL30JT
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-520UM
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 310M
