MaverickMP

Whelp…. Let this be a lesson to most out there. Don’t buy cheaper alternative to hyper m.2 cards…. An actual ASUS HUPER M.2 card solved the issue…. thanks for all the help from everyone!

Pretty sure the issue is the inatek pcie card. I just put it in my x299 test bench, set up the pcie slot for hyper m.2 and I’m getting the same issue. Going to order an actual hyper m.2 and see if that fixes it.

thinking the m.2 card may be crap. I pulled all the drive out of them, reformatted and initialized them, and then put them back in one by one, and the card only recognizes 1 nvme.... Kinda at a loss here lol.... Its got to be a windows thing. Because i can see all 4 drives on the card in BIOS if i was going to configure it as a bootable raid. But as soon as i try to install windows, or (not using it as a bootable array) try create a pool of all 4 drives on the card in windows, i can only see 1 of 4. Anyways, i reached out to Inateck and i'll see if they have any suggestions.

I made a raid on the dimm.2 in storage spaces. But I can still only see one of the 4 team group nvme drives in the hyper m.2 card in device manager….

Got windows installed, but when I load the raidexpert software to install the drivers I get this error…

Even after taking all the add in cards out, deleting the arrays and trying a windows install with a single m.2 installed on the board, windows installation keeps resetting when I try to install the raid driver….

Off. so from what I understand, this should be the order of doing things: 1.pull dimm.2 and hyper card out. 2. fresh install of win 10 on the main NVME (install raid drivers at this time) 3. Fully update windows and install raidxpert software 4. install dimm.2 and boot to windows 5. set up dimm.2 as a 2tb raid array in bios, boot to win 10 and initialize array in raid xpert software. Then power down. 6. Install hyper cars and set up raid array in bios 7. boot to windows and initialize hyper raid array in raid xpert software something like that??

Not sure what you mean by “turn off show physical drives”. I don’t think I have that set anywhere.

So right now I have 3 1tb nvme’s installed on the board directly. One next to the PCH , and 2 installed in the dimm.2. there isn’t a “hyper m.2” option for pcie. Just pcie16x and raid mode. I don’t see anywhere on that product page that it’s a RAID compatible card but I’m not sure if that matters. I’m just suprised that you can just set the pcie hyper m.2 and not have to worry about setting up raid mode

Hmmm yea okay that’s weird. Not it’s just rebooting the windows installer when I try to install the raid driver….

I’m worried that this isn’t a compatible raid card. I’d be okay with just bifurcating the pcie slot and just having 41tb drives, but I don’t think you can do that. I mean, I’ve tried and that’s not working either

And I’ve tried the official raid driver from AMD, and both versions that are available for this board on the asus website. this is the 4x nvme card I’m using https://www.inateck.com/products/pcie-x16-to-m-2-card-with-4-nvme-ssds-supported-built-in-cooling-fan-kn4338?_pos=21&_sid=89ae1cd11&_ss=r

This is the screen it hangs on when trying to install the raid driver. I let it sit overnight and the machine must have rebooted because when I woke up this am the screen was back to the main windows installation screen.

I don’t see anywhere in bios to set the volume type…

Making progress…. Got the raid drivers from the zenith product page and now when I load the rcbottom driver it clears all the drives in the windows install screen. However, now when I try to install the RC raid controller driver I’m stuck on the install screen. The green progress bar just keeps flashing….