System won't shut down while using RAID1

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:20 pm

I build this sys for my sister about a month ago for photo editing

AMD64 2800+ 754
Chaintech ZNF3 nf250
Corsair DDR3200 512x2
2x Maxtor 160GB 7200rpm SATA
Enermax 350w psu
Win XP pro SP2

When I first built the sys it only had 1 SATA HDD running independent for about a month, and later my sis decided she wanted to spend the money on the 2nd drive to setup RAID1 for her photo backup

So last night I put the 2nd drive in, installed the raid/SATA drivers pre XP install, installed XP on the new RAID1 Array, installed nforce 5.10 drivers
Everything was good, I had all of her programs re-installed all her data copied back onto the system
But this whole time I had never accutly shut the system down,, only doing warm reboots
Then finally one time I tried to do a standard shut down, and at "Windows is shutting down" it just stops. You can move the mouse but ALT+CLT+DEL or anything else won't work.
It will sit there forever

If I disable raid in bios (which I did when I reset the CMOS one time) It will shut down normal (BTW disabling RAID in bios then going into windows with both drives connected totally fuxors the data on the 2nd drive)

So now I reformatted the system again and with RAID1 enabled the system will not shut down,, it will reboot fine,, but not shut down

Does anyone have any ideas here?
Is there any known issues with nforce raid drivers and XP SP2? I havenâ??t found anything on the net
I'm really stuck here and my sister is guna shoot me in the face if I don't get this back to her soon =)

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:45 am

Puzzling. In XP under RAID1 it only sees one disk, right? Not two? The raid drivers should be able to see two disks, but not windows itself. This IS whats happening, right?

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:43 pm

Ya in windows it sees only 1 disk
but in the RAID setup bios it see's 2 drives set into an array

the raid is working correctly, it just wont let the machine shut down

The RAID/SATA drivers I'm using, Which were installed before windows. They came on the CD that came with the MB. If I wanted to get more recent ones, would I go to chaintech or nvidia? (MB or chipset manufature)
the chaintechs download page is just a bunch of broken links so it kinda of impossible to get them there
I just dont know if the RAID drivers have to be diff for every MB or what

EDIT: BTW
In event log/system around the time stamp that I'm trying to shut the system down there are error logs from "Service Controler Manager" and "nvatabus" <--- thats the RAID/SATA driver from the chaintech CD that u install off a floppy before windows. Thats why I'm looking for an updated version. Seems to be the problem

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:15 pm

Problem solved the RAID didn't like the Unified nForce Drivers from nvidia that I was useing (5.10)
It needed an older version suplied by chaintech, guess they customized em some that affected the raid

ver 4.26 it liked
all is good now, no idea how i figured it out

thanks for the help