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Thanks to everyone for all the help, greatly appreciated! :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27777515 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:33:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27768142 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27768142 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:27:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27768136 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27768136 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:25:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27767069 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27767069 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:21:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27766630
I briefly looked at the board on Newegg but didn't look closely at the specs, I saw 6 ports and figured they were in a 2/4 or 4/2 split. What model drives do you have?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27766630 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:44:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27766460
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Just curious if I should stop and rebuild the array as a raid 1+0 instead of one array as just raid 1? Will there even be much performance increase with 7200rpm drives? The raid 1+0 it will have all 4 drives, but currently only 2 of them are the raid 1 array, other two in raid 0. Do I bother redoing it again or not?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27766302 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:05:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765951 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765951 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:08:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765907 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765907 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:59:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765847 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765847 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:39:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765829 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765829 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:34:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765754
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Grab the current RAID drivers from ASUS and try Windows again. If it still doesn't see the drives then we could look at something else causing it but I really suspect it's simply a driver issue. I know you mentioned you gave it the motherboard disk but providing it with the latest drivers would be better.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765114 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:28:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765098 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765098 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:22:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765071
See here for ESX 5.x on that motherboard:
»www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.···t=M5A99X
»www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.···t=M5A99X

Note the commonalities, the storage controller works but only in AHCI mode (this is proven already since it sees your individual disks).

What guest OSes do you plan to run on this? If just Windows guests then go with either ESX or Hyper-V but if you plan to run anything else I would strongly recommend you go with ESX. It has MUCH better support for other OS brands compared to Hyper-V. The downside to this is you either will have to settle for individual disks or grab a supported 3rd party RAID card (the Dell PERC 6 is my personal favorite and does not need to be in a Dell system either, it's also fairly cheap and is a re-badged LSI so it's a good one too).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27765071 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:15:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/PC-BuildWont-load-OS-27764856
ESXi won't find the array, just the individual disks. Hyper-v 2008 asks for drivers on install, tried the mobo disk with no success. Hyper-v 2012 will install and load, but constantly freezes on logon, changes in the cmd, etc. Tried loading a server 2008 R2 directly on it instead of virtualized, asks for drivers again. Changed the array to 2 disks in a raid 1 mirrored, other 2 drives in raid 0. Still can't get anything to install. Any help greatly appreciated.

Summary of the build and parts used:

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»www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as···19113284

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