thank you, everyone.
looked like it was the Microsoft ergo keyboard keyboard 4000 v 1 driver that
caused the initial crash. unfortunately, so far, have not found a newer
version of driver.
Last time the Raid 5 volume fell apart, I just set the bios to rebuild and
boot into vista and stayed power on for a day. that fixed the trouble.
this time around it still boot up on the raid 5 volume zero but sure took
longer to rebuild. it's probably because of the extra data in the volume 0
In terms of drives, there are no extra drives. everything looks normal from
the diskmgmt.msc
I just rebooted to confirm the volume 0 status is now "normal"
"Paul" <> wrote in message
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> gg wrote:
> > The Vista ultimate 64 crashed last night from driver power state on the
> > keyboard.
> >
> > When I reboot I saw the raid volume 0 being labelled in yellow as
Rebuild.
> > when I select to see detail I saw
> > "Raid will be rebuilt in OS"
> > so I booted into Vista OS and logged in as administrator to let the PC
run
> > overnight.
> > however the PC shutdown by itself sometimes after 5 AM. when I start it
up,
> > the volume 0 is still "Rebuild"
> >
> > is there something I have to do or download?
> >
> > I am only using raid 5 on 3 drives plus 2 stand alone plain Sata Drives,
no
> > blended raid...I did install the drivers form the Asus driver disk.
however
> > Today I found the driver associated with the volume 0 as Microsoft.
could
> > this be a problem?
> >
> >
>
> How can a RAID 5, still be a RAID 5, unless the Intel drivers are
operating ?
> Why would the Intel RAID management application, talk to non-Intel
drivers,
> if that were the case. The Intel RAID management, should check that an
> Intel driver is in control.
>
> The volume would "fall apart" and not register at all, if your original
software
> combination stopped working. If you only have 1/3 of the original RAID,
you
> don't have a viable file system, so a single drive of the three in the
RAID5,
> cannot show up in Explorer with its own letter.
>
> You say you have five drives. Three in RAID and two separate drives. Does
> the OS boot from one of the separate drives ? Or is the RAID5 used for
> booting ?
>
> If the computer shuts down, in the middle of a rebuild, then the status
> on next power up, will still require a rebuild. It can leave rebuild
state,
> once the rebuild is finished.
>
> You also need to figure out, why the computer is shutting down on its own.
> If a shutdown is happening, there is a difference between a controlled
> shutdown (where the file system is properly flushed to disk), and
> an uncontrolled shutdown. So while you can work on your rebuild, you
> also need to fix the shutdown issue, whatever that is.
>
> For best performance, a computer with a RAID, should be on a UPS
(uninterruptable
> power supply). Some UPS boxes, provide power for five minutes or so when
> there is a power failure, and when the battery is getting close to empty,
> the UPS box can signal to the computer, the need to do a controlled
shutdown.
> The OS can have a "UPS driver", that listens for that request. And then
> the OS can shut down, keeping the file system in reasonable shape.
> That reduces the risk of breaking something. But that still won't help,
> if the shutdown is caused by something else, such as a CPU overheating
> and triggering THERMTRIP. A THERMTRIP gives no advance warning to the OS,
> and if you have a problem with a CPU overheating, then fix it. Some
> fresh thermal paste, or a new cooler, may solve the problem. So you also
> have to work on determine the source, and the type, of the shutdown that
> happened.
>
> Paul
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