I have a home server running on server 2003 in a RAID5 array with a Highpoint Rocketraid 2340. The OS is on its own 500gb sata drive straight to the mb. This has been running fine for several years now until sometime last week. The week before this I powered it on and it came up just fine for a week. Then sometime last week it went down, not sure due to what but apparently it went into a endless boot loop. It'll get to the server loading screen for a few seconds and just reboot. If I select the option not to automatically reboot on an error I get a BSOD with a 0x50 page fault in a non-paged area error.
Selecting Last known good config didn't work nor can I even get into safe mode. I swapped with known good ram and did a chkdsk but neither helped. I took out the hard drive and tested it with another computer and it worked just fine, no stuttering or freezing.
Finally I decided to try Repair through the Recovery Console since I didn't believe the raid configurations were set into the OS. It worked and I got to the desktop. First thing I did was check to see if my raid array was mounted but I see nothing in My Computer. I then check Disk Management and it shows it there but now its a GPT protective partition. I can't do anything to it besides viewing its properties but there's not much there either. Figured my install disc was pre SP1 and it replaced many system files with pre SP1 files so I got a hold of SP1 and SP2 and installed them to have more up to date system files.
No luck. I go into the boot loop again after rebooting from the SP2 install. I give up with that installation and tried a new install from scratch with a different hd. Got to the desktop just fine after SP2 but it goes back to the boot loop once I restart from the raid card driver install. Did a quick research and Win7 can read GPT partitions too so I thought I'll give that a go. I restart after installing the driver and it fails to boot so Win7 did an auto repair and removes the driver. I try again but it complains that the driver isn't digitally signed so it won't take it again.
I finally give up for the night and will tackle it again some more today. Anybody have an idea what might be going on? I can go into the raid card's bios and see all the drives are configured and I can see the array too and reports it as online. When I installed the OS I did not see the volume though. What else can I try? I do have another spare mb to do any testing.
Selecting Last known good config didn't work nor can I even get into safe mode. I swapped with known good ram and did a chkdsk but neither helped. I took out the hard drive and tested it with another computer and it worked just fine, no stuttering or freezing.
Finally I decided to try Repair through the Recovery Console since I didn't believe the raid configurations were set into the OS. It worked and I got to the desktop. First thing I did was check to see if my raid array was mounted but I see nothing in My Computer. I then check Disk Management and it shows it there but now its a GPT protective partition. I can't do anything to it besides viewing its properties but there's not much there either. Figured my install disc was pre SP1 and it replaced many system files with pre SP1 files so I got a hold of SP1 and SP2 and installed them to have more up to date system files.
No luck. I go into the boot loop again after rebooting from the SP2 install. I give up with that installation and tried a new install from scratch with a different hd. Got to the desktop just fine after SP2 but it goes back to the boot loop once I restart from the raid card driver install. Did a quick research and Win7 can read GPT partitions too so I thought I'll give that a go. I restart after installing the driver and it fails to boot so Win7 did an auto repair and removes the driver. I try again but it complains that the driver isn't digitally signed so it won't take it again.
I finally give up for the night and will tackle it again some more today. Anybody have an idea what might be going on? I can go into the raid card's bios and see all the drives are configured and I can see the array too and reports it as online. When I installed the OS I did not see the volume though. What else can I try? I do have another spare mb to do any testing.