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Thread ID: 112306	2010-08-31 12:32:00	Black screen after reboot	euon (15416)	Press F1

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1133474	2010-08-31 12:32:00	Hi! I've just built my first computer (will post specs below) and I've encountered a bit of a worrying issue. I turned it on for the first time and everything ran properly. I went straight into the BIOs to have a look around. Seeing as I don't have a floppy drive installed I changed the boot order, saved and exited. I didn't have windows on hand so decided to install Ubuntu temporarily out of impatience. As I set up a Raid 0 in the BIOs and attempted to install Ubuntu (which didnt work due to an errno 5) every time I pushed the reset button, or even when the computer reset itself automatically it would enter POST and then turn to a black screen. During POST it didn't respond to the keyboard (which is USB). I would then have to turn it off and back on using the power button. After coming back on it would go through POST and raid BIOs and everything would work as it should. I've now installed windows 7 and again every time the computer rebooted during install it would end up on the black screen and I would have to power off/on to get things running again. Anyone know how I can fix this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU: Athlon II X4 635 MOBO: Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H (rev. 2.1) RAM: 2x2GB Crucial XMS3 PSU: Corsair 550VX HDDs: 2xWD 500GB Caviar Blues (now in Raid 0) and a 1TB Caviar Green OPTICAL: Samsung CASE: Lancool PC-K62 (which is awesome by the way) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------	euon (15416)
1133475	2010-08-31 19:58:00	For the USB kb prob, configure the BIOS. Enable Legacy support for USB. That should fix the kb prob. Whats the 1 TB used for??? Since you're using RAID?? Is it for backup?? Did you install / add the RAID drivers before you installed Win7?? This sound like your prob? blogs.computerworld.com	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1133476	2010-08-31 21:19:00	See if this helps -- When you can get the PC to boot ( windows) click on the start button, type in Device select device manager, look for Display adapters, expand it, right click your graphics, uninstall or disable - reboot. It should boot into windows, if it does, then download the latest drivers, enable the graphics again, and try that. Could also be a problem with Ubuntu - since going by your thread, the trouble started when that was installed. You can also wipe the drive and install windows on its own to see if the problem is still there. OR did you already completely wipe the drive and then put in Windows, totally removing Ubuntu first ?	wainuitech (129)
1133477	2010-09-01 02:53:00	Yeh enabling legacy is one of the first things I did, which is why the keyboard not responding is so weird. At the moment windows and programs are on my RAID and I've got music and photos on my 1 TB from my old computer. I was sure to install the RAID drivers during windows installation. Ubuntu was wiped from my drive before windows was installed to ensure everything went smoothly. Graphics drivers are up to date. Disabling and rebooting changed nothing =[ I'm pretty sure the problem isn't with Windows (or ubuntu for that matter) as I was having this problem before installing any OS or even pluging in my 1 TB drive. Could this be a problem with the BIOs? I really don't want to have to flash my BIOs...	euon (15416)
1133478	2010-09-01 03:26:00	Why are you using RAID 0?, you will not notice any real world difference unless transfer large files to an equal drive array, and you are only setting yourself up for a disk failure or corruption. Which SATA controller are you using and is it set as the boot controller. Are you set for AHCI, there are 3 difference SATA drivers.	SolMiester (139)
1133479	2010-09-01 04:57:00	I set-up RAID 0 with the intent of trying to get the best performance for the money I had. I will be doing a small amount of video and image editing and I assumed RAID 0 would make sense. I was aware of the risks and seeing as I have a 1TB (internal) drive, a 500GB external and a 160GB external drive I thought it would be fairly easy to work out a relatively decent backup planand maybe use something like Acronis to create an image of the RAID 0 Anyway, I'm using the AMD SB850 controller. I'm unsure if it's set as the boot controller. How could I check? No I'm not set for AHCI. Although I really must admit, your question now has me wondering if I should switch to RAID 1 instead... haha. PS does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to arrange all these drives?	euon (15416)
1133480	2010-09-01 05:12:00	Hi, I would use raid 1 myself....and i actually do with a couple of 80Gb drive on the home pc.... to test your setup, copy the following into notepad and save as a batch file, change the drive letter to match your 2nd drive and post back here the result.....I would say there will be very little between them winsat disk -ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 4096 winsat disk -ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 4096 winsat disk -seq -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsize 524288 winsat disk -seq -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsize 524288 winsat disk -ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 16384 winsat disk -ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 16384 winsat disk -flush -drive c Pause	SolMiester (139)
1133481	2010-09-01 05:18:00	as for the other questions, which coloured ports are you using?, blue are the sata 3 ports, white sata 2 i think from the quick glance, I would of set ACHI\raid if I were you, trouble is you may well have to re-install the o/s if you change this setting. Boot controller is set in motherboard BIOS, raid array boot order from the controller BIOS	SolMiester (139)
1133482	2010-09-01 11:04:00	I ran the batch file but the window containing the results closed immediately... So I wen into command prompt and just typed in winsat disk and had the same problem. The RAID and the storage drive are all on the blue sata 3 ports and yes, the RAID is set as boot controller. Have also done a bit more research into using RAID 0 and I guess the bottom line is that if I'm not going to see any real noticeable difference in performance, I might as well just go ahead and change to RAID 1...	euon (15416)
1133483	2010-09-01 11:09:00	Highlight the folder you saved that batch file to. Press / hold shift down / right mouse / select open command window here. Type name.bat (whatever you called the batch file)	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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