Warning there is something wrong with your Hardware?

[Ernst0]

It has been a really bad day.

I first tried to get the gforce 550ti to work and I got video lockout on all three gfx cards so I said what the heck and I'll reinstall but I decided to try out the RAID on the motherboard.

So what was a day long (24hour) reinstall with 2tb of files to reload turned into a very expensive paper weight.

Has anyone seen the RAID fail on BioStar TA990FXE or similar? I assume I selected the wrong things and it thinks the drives are broken I guess. It didn't know the drives were not connected nor will it allow me to enter the BIOS to change things.

I found one mention of the problem on Tom's hardware but no solution.

Biostar will get a call for sure but I thought to ask.

---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:38 PM ----------

The answer to a jacked up setting is to clear CMOS. The Motherboard offers a jumper clear and it works great!
Learned something new.

---------- Post added at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:14 PM ----------

Oh my bad...

I have 4 drives and at the same time I was trying to get the video card to work one of the drives failed!

Wow talk about a red herring. I was seeing the system say there were three drives but I knew there were 4 and Linux wouldn't boot and so on.

What a trip.

So if you have a BioStar mother board it looks like it's good quality but as the warning said ,, We may have a hardware problem. I think it is a joke message for a bad setting if you ask me.

[hadrons123]

http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[Ernst0]

I had a bad setting.

To clear this we must use the jumper on the MB to clear the CMOS and then reset the optimal settings and save.

I appreciate the forum and a place to ask questions.

[DBelton]

I used to put a slide switch on the back of my case and have it attached to the pins for the CMOS clear jumper.

But that was when I was doing some wild overclocks and pushing the limits of the hardware, and was constantly having to clear the CMOS. It did save me from having to open the case or hunt around inside for the jumper and knocking other things loose in the process, though.

[PabloTwo]

My new ASRock mb has a pcb mounted CMOS Reset switch. That's a handy thing to have (take left side panel off, press button, CMOS is reset to factory defaults).

It also has a rear panel button that does the same thing, which sets right next to the two PS/2 ports. I don't have to say more, as you can imagine what happens next. What on earth were they thinking?

[DBelton]

cool! An added bonus "feature"

Plug in the mouse or keyboard, and reset your CMOS