i have a very irritating issue, from which the almighty google has been unable to help me with. alas, i turn to professionals...
I have an older asus a8n premium mobo with 4 gigs of mushkin ram, an opteron 170 with a mild OC, a newer 3870, and 9 HDDs. yes, 3x 1tbs, 3x 500gbs, 1x 320gbs, and 2x 160gbs in RAID1.
My problem is the following;
When i have all HDDs plugged in and powered on, i cant boot to my win7 64 bit install. I couldn't even install any version of windows onto any of the HDDs. pull the power on three HDDs, and voila! I was able to boot and install win7. I tested a 64bit copy of ubuntu, just for kicks, and found that it would boot with all HDDs powered on and connected.
now im really stumped, ive updated the mobo BIOS, removed the overclock, done just about everything that i could think of...
anyone have any ideas?
I have an older asus a8n premium mobo with 4 gigs of mushkin ram, an opteron 170 with a mild OC, a newer 3870, and 9 HDDs. yes, 3x 1tbs, 3x 500gbs, 1x 320gbs, and 2x 160gbs in RAID1.
My problem is the following;
When i have all HDDs plugged in and powered on, i cant boot to my win7 64 bit install. I couldn't even install any version of windows onto any of the HDDs. pull the power on three HDDs, and voila! I was able to boot and install win7. I tested a 64bit copy of ubuntu, just for kicks, and found that it would boot with all HDDs powered on and connected.
now im really stumped, ive updated the mobo BIOS, removed the overclock, done just about everything that i could think of...
anyone have any ideas?