Hi,

I have been running the following system for a year & yesterday when the
system restarted it said "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS
ENTER".

The PC comprises:
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Giga 8KNXP (Rev1) with 2.8GHz Iintel cpu
1 GB RAM
2 x Maxtor 120GB SATA disks in RAID1 using the onboard SilImage chip (this
is the Boot C-drive mirrored)
2 x Maxtor 120GB SATA disks in RAID0 using the onbaord Intel ICH5R chip
(this is the non-bootable striped drives)
1 x DVD-RW
1 x DVD/CD reader
1 x floppy drive
1 x ANTEC 550W power supply


I did not change any BIOS/CMOS settings prior to the DISK BOOT FAILURE
error. The only thing that initiated the system restart was Norton antivirus
update of the antivirus data.

At boot time, seems the RAID0 drives are still recgonised, but the RAID1
drives are not recognised (hence does not boot).
There are no other cds/dvds/floppys in the other drives at boot time.
I opened up the chasis and disconnected/reconnected the power-cables & data
cables to & from the mobo to the 4 x harddisks; but this did not solve
anything.

I suspect that the Silicon Image controller on the mobo has failed! What do
you think?



I have several options:

1) buy an addon RAID1 controller card (eg PROMISE Fastrak S150 Tx4) &
connect the 2 x RAID mirrored C-drives.
2) buy an ASUS mobo with equivalent onboard 4 x SATA with RAID1 & RAID0
support.

**ps.- I understand from a retailer that the Giga8KNXP (Rev2) has been
discontinued as a product. Does not speak well for a product that last just
over a year & had so many BIOS fixes.

My RAID0 drives actually contain a DRIVEIMAGE7 backup of the entire bootable
C-drive. But my main concernroblem is that with any of the above 2 options,
how do I keep all the data on all 4 xSATA disks intact when I reinstall
them? Alterntatively, if I can keep the data on the RAID0 drives which have
the DRIVEIMAGE7 backup of drive C, then hopefully I can reimage drive C when
all the new hw is installed.... How do I do this?

I appreciate any advice you gurus can provide please.

Thanks
Danny Tay