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Here's what's happening.

I havent been using hardware RAID on my motherboard, but since I got new disks today I changed from normal SATA to RAID and rebooted.

I set up the RAID, three disks, one of them for the OS, the two other RAIDED as one. Rebooted.

The Windows Server 2003 loading-logo shows up for a second and then, it hasn't even faded in completely, I get a blue screen, which lasts for 0.5 sec and then the computer auto-reboots and does the same thing again forever.

I thought this RAID stuff should be handled automatically by the hardware but seems like WinServer2003 is missing somehing.

If I change back to not using RAID but normal SATA mode I can boot back into the OS again.

What the hell should I do to not get the BSOD??

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You need to set the registry values accordingly. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976#method1 for detail. Essentially, the 'Start' values for

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

should be set to 0.

Registry Value

Use caution when changing registry values as an incorrect setting could cause further problems.

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  • Neither of those two keys (Msahci or IastorV) exists. Do I can't do it.
    – Nils
    Oct 12, 2012 at 23:56
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci is the registry folder. The key is Start.
    – Mike
    Oct 12, 2012 at 23:58
  • Yes, sorry, I meant none of those two folders exists.
    – Nils
    Oct 13, 2012 at 0:00
  • I think I'll just try software RAID then... since it doesn't work and RAID0 with software should be almost as good as RAID0 with hardware.
    – Nils
    Oct 13, 2012 at 0:02
  • Ok, perhaps if you could provide the BSOD error message we can find an alternate solution. Try hitting F8 during boot and choose the option for not rebooting on system failure (not the exact wording) and write down the error code.
    – Mike
    Oct 13, 2012 at 0:03

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