BIOS mistake

[aMUSEd]

Damn - I went into my BIOS and loaded setup defaults because I was having some problems and wanted to start afresh but for some reason the PC is now asking for a driver for a RAID controller on startup and I didn't even know I had one - I thought my disks (3 of them) were all SATA ones, not RAID. How can I change it back?

[gravehill]

Which motherboard are you using? I think you have to setup the RAID arrays in the BIOS yourself. The motherboard manual probably tells more about that. If you lost your manual, most manufacturers have PDF manuals on their site.

[aMUSEd]

It's an ASUS P5AD2 premium - it does have paper manual somewhere but I can't lay hands on it right now and I haven't a clue about RAID - I assumed the default would bring everything back to factory settings - I'm trying to reduce the way this system overheats so I turned off all the overclocking stuff. If the drives are SATA why does it need a RAID controller?

(incidentally - it seems I can still access the drives fine and nothing else seems broken except I had to go back and manually disable the built in sound again - just this message at startup)

[gravehill]

Hmm, someone who knows the hardware side better could probably give a more exhaustive answer but I have 3 SATA drives, in "Just a Bunch Of Disks" configuration. I suppose this doesn't really cound as a RAID configuration but I set it that way in BIOS where all the other RAID stuff is also set, so it could make sense that it needs a RAID driver to know how the disks are set up.

To be honest, I have no idea.

[aMUSEd]

I seem to have fixed it by setting the SATA option in the BIOS to IDE mode and the Silicon Image controller to SATAS (not RAID). F knows why though - I thought SATA was supposed to replace IDE? But it works.