Motherboard Dead - re-establish RAID

[gresxc]

Hi,

My motherboard died (GA-EP45-DS3R). I was running a RAID and would like to know what i need to do to reestablish it. The replacement for my motherboard is a GA-EP45-UD3R which runs the same chipset (ICH10R) so from what i've read it has a better chance of being recovered.

What problems can i expect? Is it just a matter of plugging the drives into the new motherboard and hoping it is recognised? Is there any other set-up i need to do?

Thanks

[DrLiam]

Make sure you have the floppy or an nLite copy in order to detect your array.

Also, it may be important to make sure ur BIOS and driver versions are the same. Lastly, make sure you have all the proper BIOS settings on and that connectors on in the same spot. (SATA1, SATA2, etc).

Good Luck and heres to hoping you found a solution already. :]

[gresxc]

Make sure you have the floppy or an nLite copy in order to detect your array.

Also, it may be important to make sure ur BIOS and driver versions are the same. Lastly, make sure you have all the proper BIOS settings on and that connectors on in the same spot. (SATA1, SATA2, etc).

Good Luck and heres to hoping you found a solution already. :]

Thanks for the reply. There's a two week wait for the warranty on my motherboard so i'll let you know how it goes when i get the replacement.

I marked the cables with the port numbers before i removed them so that shouldn't be a problem.:) The BIOS version could be tricky, since i am expecting a different motherboard than the original. Hopefully it's not too different.

The floppy you are referring to is the Windows CD right? Thanks

[Mt_Goat]

The floppy you are referring to is the Windows CD right? Thanks

No, they were referring to a floppy drive disc. Much different and not used much anymore. There should also be an option in the RAID bios setup for "detect" or "re-establish" an array.

btw
this is why we keep stressing the point about keeping backups when running RAID.

[DrLiam]

this is why we keep stressing the point about keeping backups when running RAID.

Single drive back-ups.


The floppy I am referring to is the floppy you can create (normally) with the motherboard cd. It should be somewhere in the raid drivers section of the cd and there should be an option to create a floppy. This floppy is the one you will load when, after putting in the Windows CD, you press F3 to load third party drivers.

Good Luck.

[gresxc]

Well the two week wait on the warranty became four weeks, but the good news is that i got the same board back and all i had to do was turn the raid back on in the bios and everything was back as it was. Thanks for all your help, i guess i was expecting the worst!

[Leonardo]

i guess i was expecting the worst!

Hope for the best but plan for the worst. My advice is to get an external drive (prebuilt or case + your choice of drive) and keep up to date backups of the RAID contents. Next time you might not be so lucky.

[Mt_Goat]

Hope for the best but plan for the worst. My advice is to get an external drive (prebuilt or case + your choice of drive) and keep up to date backups of the RAID contents. Next time you might not be so lucky.

Ditto!