Hello and thank you for creating this very interesting forum.
I’m by no means a computer genius but I but I think I know more than most people. However, after finally falling for the non-stop “upgrade to win10” spam MS plagued me with, I have an issue I can’t figure out.
The install went smoothly and no issues was reported and all dozens of checks I have run afterwards report nothing corrupted at all. Some drivers were in dire need of an update and that has all been sorted. But after a random amount of time I get five nvraid event ID: 11 and then I get the black screen of death, which my computer sometimes, but not every time, can restart from.
I can’t figure out what to do. I figure that since nvraid is something you guys might know about I’m humbly asking for any help you can offer.
I like windows 10 and would rather not have to roll back to win7.
Thanks in advance.
//Sangramore
@Sangramore :
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your report.
If you want help, you should give us some minimal informations about
a) your hardware configuration (mainboard model, chipset, in-use HDDs/SSDs) and
b) your specific SATA configuration (IDE/AHCI/RAID mode, in-use SATA driver etc.).
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)
Hi Dieter
Thak you for the rapid reply. I was preparing such a post but I had to tend to some computer unrelated issues (kids acting up).
a) My mainboard is a Dell stock thing, 0PP150 with nForce 650i SLI Spp. As for the HDDs, the speccy report looks like this:
Hard drives
NVIDIA STRIPE 931.52G
Serial Number
Interface RAID
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1 000 215 674 880 bytes
RAID Type Software RAID
S.M.A.R.T
S.M.A.R.T not supported
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Size 86,2 MB
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter D:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 20C57045
Size 10 GB
Used Space 9,31 GB (93%)
Free Space 707 MB (7%)
Partition 2
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #2
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 8EFF3A32
Size 920 GB
Used Space 391 GB (42%)
Free Space 529 GB (58%)
Partition 3
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #3
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 380CA638
Size 449 MB
Used Space 336 MB (74%)
Free Space 113 MB (26%)
//Sangramore
@Sangramore :
Thanks for the details.
So your Dell system has a NVIDIA nForce 650i chipset and you obviously have created a Software RAID by using Win10.
Questions:
1. To which mode (IDE or RAID) have you set the NVIDIA nForce SATA Controller within the BIOS?
2. Why have you created a "Software RAID" and not a NVIDIA MediaShield RAID0 array?
I haven’t created anything manually.
//Sangramore
Please do a look into the current BIOS settings of your computer (enter the BIOS > "Advanced Settings" > "SATA Controller Settings")
My tab reads “IDE/SATA Configuration”.
There I can enable/disable SMART
Go into RAID config
Or see wich drive is on wich SATA (0 and 1 is used by the HDD, 2 is the optical drive).
In RAID config I can enable and disable the SATAs (0 and 1 is enabled).
Don’t know where else to look. I’m on my tablet now and still in BIOS if you need me to check something else.
//Sangramore
One HDD cannot be connected with 2 different SATA ports at the same time.
I suspect, that your Dell computer contains 2 HDDs combined as NVIDIA nForce RAID0 array.
That would be true.
//S
@Sangramore :
Please run the Device Manager and check, which NVIDIA nForce RAID driver is in use (expand the "Storage Controllers" section, right click onto the listed "NVIDIA nForce SATA RAID Controller" and choose the options "Properties" > "Driver").
10.6.0.23
//S
Ok, this is what I expected. It is the Win10 in-box nForce RAID driver.
It will not be easy to avoid your problems, because Win10 has never been designed for nForce chipsets and NVIDIA has stopped the nForce chipset support already in 2009.
What you can try to do is the installation of my "Latest nForce Driverpack for Win7-10", which you can download from >here<. This way you will get the NVIDIA nForce RAID driver v11.1.0.43 installed, but I am unsure, whether this driver will run absolutely stable with your system. I recommend to install just the nForce RAID driver and the related RAIDTOOL application by running the installer of the package.
I finally install it , it was all about booting from usb 2.0 .
I was trying and trying with my usb 3.0 ,i cant belive that this was the problem becouse i didnt think about the version of the usb hahha .Thank you so much for your help !!
@myotovski :
Thanks for your feedback. I am glad, that you succeeded at the end and that I could help.
I can’t install the driver. I get no option from the installer and when I try to direct windows to the folder directly (the C:\Users\Sangramore\Desktop\Fernandos Latest 64bit nForce Driverpack for Win7-10 x64 v10.4\IDE\Win764\sataraid one I’m guessing) it just concludes the latest version is already installed.
Is there something I’m not getting here?
//Sangramore
It is not easy to get any NVIDIA nForce SATARAID driver manually installed, because you have to update the driver of several devices, before you are doing the reboot (you will be prompted to restart your computer after the driver update of each device, but don’t do it, otherwise you will get a BSOD while rebooting!).
Before you start the manual driver update from within the Device Manager, you have to hit the "View" tab and enable the option "show hidden devices". Furthermore you have to force the driver update by doing a right click onto the related device and choosing the options "Update Driver Software" > "Browse my Computer…" > "Let me pick…" > then hit the "Have Disk" button and navigate to the INF file of the SATARAID subfolder of the driver you want to get installed.
These are the devices, whose driver software have to be updated:
1. NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (may be listed within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" or "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager),
2. NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller (is within the "Storage Controllers" section) and
3. all NVIDIA nForce RAID Devices, which are listed within the "Storage Controllers" section (that are the HDDs, which are members of the RAID array and may be listed with a slightly different name).
The NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller was in the storage section but all drivers installed and no yellow exclamation points. Everything seems stable. Is there anything I can do to verify things? I mean, I didn’t really know what caused the BSOD to start with.
In any case… I very much appreciate your help.
Thank you.
//Sangramore
M/B: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2NE/specifications/
HDD: 2 x WD3200AAJS 320Gb (RAID0)
Hello everybody. I installed Windows 7 “Ultimate” (64-bit) with standard driver that was in the distribution system. After logging in, I’ve been through the Device Manager and install Fernandos Special 64bit nForce RAID Driverpack (manually: IDE\sataraid\nvrd64.inf). After the reboot, the new hardware has been found and the system offered me second reboot. And then I saw BSOD: 0x0000007B. What did I wrong? This driver not exactly supports this chipset?
P.S. I apologize for any errors. I’m from Russia, so we had to use Google Translate.
@Avatar-Lion :
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!
The manual update of the NVIDIA nForce SATARAID drivers from within the Device Manager is not easy, because you have to update the driver software for all related NVIDIA nForce SATARAID devices (Serial ATA Controller, RAID Controller and RAID Devices), before you should reboot.
You can find >here< a detailed guide about how to do it.
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)
Thanks, all worked well! I do not think about the hidden devices…
And one more thing: before the second restart (but after the "new device found") i also had to manually update the driver on hidden "nForce RAID Device" (default operating system is installed on it a standard driver, but I replaced it with nvrd64.inf).