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ShakyJake

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I have 3 other drives in the system set to JBOD. As such, I have the RAID feature set on in the BIOS. While the SSD sits on the "raid" controller it's simply a single drive. I had zero issues with the existing 250GB hard drive set this way. But, oddly, Windows 7 and Windows 8 installation process can't "see" the SSD. It doesn't appear as a selection.
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So I bought another motherboard, a newer ASUS socket AM3+ with the SB950 southbridge -- EXACT same fucking problem. If the SATA controller is configured for RAID the Windows installation will not see the single SSD. I've Google'd it and can't find anyone else complaining about this issue. To top it off, the motherboard is defective (causing random freezes and it is the only variable that has changed, all other components are the same).

I used to love building PCs but god damn I hate this shit now.
 
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So I have a WiFi issue. My dad moved the wireless router and now has some strange setup (multiple routers, some switchboard set up). Anyways, the WiFi is now complete shit everywhere in the house. My room is at the opposite end, so I don't even receive a useful signal. I've been using an ethernet for all my internet needs.

Is it possible to set up a wireless router in my room so I could have a strong wifi signal?
 
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ShakyJake_sl said:
So I bought another motherboard, a newer ASUS socket AM3+ with the SB950 southbridge -- EXACT same fucking problem. If the SATA controller is configured for RAID the Windows installation will not see the single SSD. I've Google'd it and can't find anyone else complaining about this issue. To top it off, the motherboard is defective (causing random freezes and it is the only variable that has changed, all other components are the same).

I used to love building PCs but god damn I hate this shit now.
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Did you look in disk management? Is it just an unformated drive and you're not seeing it in explorer?
 
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Did you look in disk management? Is it just an unformated drive and you're not seeing it in explorer?
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No, this is during Windows installation. You know, when you pick the drive you want to install it to (this is a boot drive obviously). The SSD just ain't there. It'll show the RAID drive and any single HDD. But if it's an SSD, it's not there for some dumb reason.

I can switch the SATA controller to AHCI mode and everything shows up fine, I can install Windows to the SSD in that mode. But, of course, ran into another problem where Windows is taking a shit trying to create a span drive using 4 2TB drives (trying to create a 8TB JBOD or a RAID-0). Not sure if there's a size limitation there or not. The error just says something about an I/O error (drives work fine individually so what the hell...)
 
Jysin

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kidRiot_sl said:
So I have a WiFi issue. My dad moved the wireless router and now has some strange setup (multiple routers, some switchboard set up). Anyways, the WiFi is now complete shit everywhere in the house. My room is at the opposite end, so I don't even receive a useful signal. I've been using an ethernet for all my internet needs.

Is it possible to set up a wireless router in my room so I could have a strong wifi signal?
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If you have a hardwired Ethernet cable running to your room, you could easily just add a Wireless Access Point right in your room. (assuming you want the mobility for hand held devices in your room)

It would be cheaper to simply figure out what is wrong with the main network, of course.
 
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ShakyJake_sl said:
No, this is during Windows installation. You know, when you pick the drive you want to install it to (this is a boot drive obviously). The SSD just ain't there. It'll show the RAID drive and any single HDD. But if it's an SSD, it's not there for some dumb reason.

I can switch the SATA controller to AHCI mode and everything shows up fine, I can install Windows to the SSD in that mode. But, of course, ran into another problem where Windows is taking a shit trying to create a span drive using 4 2TB drives (trying to create a 8TB JBOD or a RAID-0). Not sure if there's a size limitation there or not. The error just says something about an I/O error (drives work fine individually so what the hell...)
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Just curious why you are trying to JBOD / RAID 0 those disks together. If one fails, you are fucked and lose all of that data. Is it not feasible to simply split the data up on individual drives? I'd be too worried about single point of failure on that volume.
 
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Just curious why you are trying to JBOD / RAID 0 those disks together. If one fails, you are fucked and lose all of that data.
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Don't care. It's basically a media PC and I have gigs of movies, TV shows, pr0n, etc. It would be a pain in the ass to split that across multiple drives. I'd rather just have one massive drive and dump everything onto it. I have external drives which I've backed up anything super important. If the JBOD array dies then oh, well, nothing lost that I couldn't re-download.
 
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Most media platforms (XBMC, etc) will allow you to point to multiple file sources for a single library.

Aside from all that, no idea why your SSD isn't being recognised by Windows. I am assuming your drives are located on the same controller ports? (Some MB have two different controllers and assigned to specific SATA ports on the MB) Seen wonky stuff happen there, but that was years back.

*edit* With that in mind, with two different controllers, you could dump your JBOD / RAID on one controller and put your SSD on another controller in AHCI mode?
 
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Most media platforms (XBMC, etc) will allow you to point to multiple file sources for a single library.

Aside from all that, no idea why your SSD isn't being recognised by Windows. I am assuming your drives are located on the same controller ports? (Some MB have two different controllers and assigned to specific SATA ports on the MB) Seen wonky stuff happen there, but that was years back.

*edit* With that in mind, with two different controllers, you could dump your JBOD / RAID on one controller and put your SSD on another controller in AHCI mode?
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The old motherboard has 4 SATA + 2 additional via another controller. However, the BIOS setting is either all RAID, ACHI, or IDE. I set it to RAID, configured the 4 2TB drives as JBOD, then leave the SSD as a single drive. Windows installation only sees the JBOD array, not the SSD. The thing is, I've had this scenario before but instead of a SSD I had a regular SATA 250GB Hard drive and that was recognized fine.

The new motherboard, same deal. Configure a RAID set up, SSD isn't seen. So there must be some limitation with these SATA BIOSes. I've seen a few comments elsewhere, even on Intel boards, that apparently are experiencing the same thing. Just no one ever has any answers or explanations.

Fortuantely, the new motherboard also has 2 extra SATA ports via another controller that you CAN set independently -- I can set that to IDE and the SSD is seen just fine. So that's great, BUT the god damn board is defective. Random lock ups. Gotta send it back to Newegg. What really chaps my ass is that I now I have to pay nearly 16 bucks for shipping...almost 1/3 the cost of the board.
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Laptop keeps shutting down inexplicably. The only way to restart is to disconnect power supply and remove and replace battery.

Do I need a new battery or does my 'puter have Ebola?
 
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Laptop keeps shutting down inexplicably. The only way to restart is to disconnect power supply and remove and replace battery.

Do I need a new battery or does my 'puter have Ebola?
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Shuttting down as in, an ordered shutdown process or just instant black screen powered off?
 
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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
This is a long shot but it sounds like the system is mis-gauging remaining battery life. Go into the bios and see if there is a battery calibration utility.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I went into the bios, but I didn't see any calibration utility for the battery, but there was a system test for it. It showed 100% charged, and 86% battery health. Doesn't sound bad to me, but I really don't know.

I've been playing a lot of Starcraft lately, and I'm wondering if the processor is overheating and shutting down. Doesn't seem to happen while I'm playing though, always after when surfing. I'm grasping at straws, I really have no idea.
 
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That RAID issue, Windows doesn't have built in drivers for hardware RAID cards, much less a shitty motherboard controlled software RAID. You'd need to load whatever drivers are available for the motherboard during the installation (when it doesn't see a disk there will be an option to load drivers) or create a slipstream Windows iso that contains them (this is far more complicated). JBOD works because it isn't really a RAID setup, it's just the controllers way of having single disks connected and available without using RAID features.

Don't use Windows to try and make some big dumb 8tb single drive, it loses its shit on anything that requires GPT (larger than 2tb). If you've got drivers for the onboard raid controller for your motherboard just use it to make the RAID 0 and Windows should be fine with it. I'd also really recommend doing a RAID 5 with those drives rather than 0, you'd only lose 2tb of space and go from massive failure chance to actually have redundancy for the whole thing.

Edit: this is what I mean by loading drivers during installWindows 7 installation problem: hard drive not found - Windows Help
 
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I may go this route just to see if that helps. Thanks, Noodle.
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If your battery is at 86% health then it is still good.

Another stupid question but is your charging cable good? I mean, it's not constantly re-connecting is it?

I had this problem for awhile only while I was at school. I always thought it was their shitty wiring since it never happened anywhere else. The battery replacement and me leaving school happened at the same time, so I don't know for sure.
 
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