Required Support: ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 RAID card causing BSOD on ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara
Required Support: ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 RAID card causing BSOD on ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara
Subject: Urgent Assistance Required: NVMe RAID + ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Problems (Blue Screen During Boot) Hi all, I’m facing difficulties installing my ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 RAID card on the ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara motherboard. I’m completely stuck. Here’s the situation: When NVMe RAID is disabled, the system only sees one SSD, which makes sense since the RAID isn’t active. Switching to NVMe RAID and setting PCIe bifurcation to x4x4x4x4 in the BIOS works, but then I encounter a blue screen upon startup. I thought RAID would fix the lane allocation and identify all drives, yet now booting is impossible. What I’ve tried: placed the card in the top PCIe slot (PCIe1) connected straight to the CPU, updated BIOS to version 3.10, enabled PCIe bifurcation to x4x4x4x4, and activated NVMe RAID. Still getting the BSOD. Can anyone help?
Is the bifurcation setting and RAID tied together or separate? If separate, only set bifurcation and leave raid OFF. If you have to set RAID to get access to that setting, basically it could be putting all your storage onto that RAID controller. If you don't already have the driver installed in Windows, will lead to a bad time. Since BSOD is mentioned, this is happening after boot but before Windows finishes loading, so is a Windows problem. I don't know if you can install the Windows RAID drivers somehow. Just installing them might not be enough if it also needs to be applied to the boot device. I never tried this on AMD, but it was basically hell to do on Intel with a fair chance of bricking the OS. Fortunately in my case on Intel system, I could run bifurcation without needing RAID enabled. There might also be a small chance of a bad SSD, so try them 1 at a time and see if that makes a difference.
Do you have backup files from these crashes? With storage failures, they often disappear if the page file is failing or crashing because it’s offline. Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump and verify the presence of any minidump files. If available, return to your Windows directory and transfer the entire Minidump folder to the Downloads folder (you can use your desktop if you don’t have OneDrive syncing). Compress the folder and attach it to a notice. Please adhere strictly to the steps since Windows typically avoids modifying files in these areas. My goal is mainly to determine if AMD’s RAID drivers are responsible. Their presence appears frequently even without RAID, which is frustrating. If they’re the culprit, we can attempt to remove them and test whether the RAID card operates with its own drivers. If you’re still missing files, consider relocating the page file to a drive outside the RAID pool (avoid external drives for this purpose) if one is available. Restart to apply changes, then try booting with RAID enabled and check for a dump file.