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but that doesn't make any sense. This board has had a raid array on it before. Ive also dont raid on my maximus 7 and rampage 5 and all drives still appear in the bios? is it something older boards do?

Boot into the Intel RAID Option ROM and see for yourself. My own motherboard even does this. It replaces my HDDs in the BIOS with just 'RAID". Its then up to the RAID controller/Option ROM to decide how the array works.

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So I have this media centre PC set up and it has an odd issue, specs to follow:

CPU:i7 3770K

Motherboard:Asus Z77 Saberthooth

RAM: 8GB of Patriot 1866MHz RAM

PSU: 300W but I also tried with a 480W

and 4X WD Black 1TB drives

 

So heres the issue. I can have all 4 drives running just fine... until I try to set the intel controller to RAID mode in the bios... then it tells me there are no drives. Any ideas guys? Like a 480W PSU should be more than enough when I don't even have a graphics card. Could it be a glitchy SATA controller?

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So I have this media centre PC set up and it has an odd issue, specs to follow:

CPU:i7 3770K

Motherboard:Asus Z77 Saberthooth

RAM: 8GB of Patriot 1866MHz RAM

PSU: 300W but I also tried with a 480W

and 4X WD Black 1TB drives

 

So heres the issue. I can have all 4 drives running just fine... until I try to set the intel controller to RAID mode in the bios... then it tells me there are no drives. Any ideas guys? Like a 480W PSU should be more than enough when I don't even have a graphics card. Could it be a glitchy SATA controller?

Once you set the controller to RAID mode you still have to configure the RAID array.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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no like I set it to raid and it tells me there are NO HARD DRIVES CONNECTED AT ALL

You have to boot into the option ROM for the Intel Software RAID and then configure the array there.

 

HDDs running in RAID wont show up in the BIOS anymore. 

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You have to boot into the option ROM for the Intel Software RAID and then configure the array there.

 

HDDs running in RAID wont show up in the BIOS anymore. 

but that doesn't make any sense. This board has had a raid array on it before. Ive also dont raid on my maximus 7 and rampage 5 and all drives still appear in the bios? is it something older boards do?

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no like I set it to raid and it tells me there are NO HARD DRIVES CONNECTED AT ALL

It will.  You need to set up the array in order to see any drives again.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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If you need to learn how to install Windows, check here:  http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/324871-guide-how-to-install-windows-the-right-way/

Event Viewer 101: https://youtu.be/GiF9N3fJbnE

 

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but that doesn't make any sense. This board has had a raid array on it before. Ive also dont raid on my maximus 7 and rampage 5 and all drives still appear in the bios? is it something older boards do?

Boot into the Intel RAID Option ROM and see for yourself. My own motherboard even does this. It replaces my HDDs in the BIOS with just 'RAID". Its then up to the RAID controller/Option ROM to decide how the array works.

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Boot into the Intel RAID Option ROM and see for yourself. My own motherboard even does this. It replaces my HDDs in the BIOS with just 'RAID". Its then up to the RAID controller/Option ROM to decide how the array works.

OK so my old Maximus 6 and my current rampage 5 dont do that. You can still view the drives installed in the system from the bios even with raid enabled. This one doesn't do that, so it must be a recent change. Thanks for the lesson!

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