Use third-party tools or alternative methods to access the ROM utility, bypassing BIOS limitations.
Use third-party tools or alternative methods to access the ROM utility, bypassing BIOS limitations.
Hello! Your motherboard now uses BIOS 2701 with Windows 11 on NVMe storage. Everything seems to be functioning properly until you notice your SATA RAID array isn’t showing up in the BIOS. After checking the manual, you found clear steps for creating and deleting RAID volumes both in BIOS and via the Intel ROM tool. However, when you press Ctrl+I after power-on, the utility no longer appears. There’s also an option to set up a RAID array for your two NVMe drives, but the four SATA drives still display correctly. It looks like the updated BIOS may have removed RAID support for SATA devices. You’re wondering if you missed something in the new menu, if the shortcut changed, or if there’s another method to access the Intel ROM tool. I’m also concerned about losing your data since the RAID array is gone. Could you try using the old BIOS version 1704 with the correct settings (M10H.CAP), or explore alternative ways to restore RAID support?
Typically, after changing BIOS configurations, resetting them can restore the SATA mode to RAID from AHCI, which often re-enables the desired features.
It seems counterintuitive, but "RAID" isn't available anymore. The only choices left are AHCI or "Intel RST Premium." I attempted the latter, which enabled setting two NVMe drives in RAID mode, but pressing Ctrl+I didn’t reveal the ROM utility and there’s no RAID configuration menu for the SATA drives.
It's been a while since I used that Ctrl-I feature. On newer boards it often just appears as an option in the BIOS settings, rather than a direct entry. From the manual, if you had CSM enabled, you'd use Ctrl-I; otherwise, it's a menu item. It seems CSM might have been turned on and the reset or update feature was disabled, shifting the settings to the menu.
okay, checking again now... I'll attach a photo of what I'm seeing, one sec! oh man, okay yea it was just moved and hiding. SATA raid is now a sub menu under "USB Configuration" no wonder I never looked hahaha I found it by just clicking one by one on EVERY menu item.
Thanks for your patience. The system displays "10.9TB, Rebuilding" without any completion percentage or status indicators. In Windows 11, this information isn't visible. Since you don’t need the machine soon and it’s protected by an UPS, you can leave it as is. Simply close the BIOS utility when you’re done, and the PC will restart normally. It won’t reset to a fresh state unless you manually power it off and on again.
I suppose my new question is, leave it like this and knock on wood and say some prayers it rebuilds the raid array? frustrating not to have any status or completion or ETA, not that it would make a difference, it would just make me feel better.
Never had to rebuild an RST array (only used it for RAID0...), think it would keep running quietly in the background even when Windows is on, so I’d leave it in the BIOS just in case. Probably needs a day or two. No improvement if you jump into Volume 1? You might have hit the issue where, after setting up an RST array, trying to boot without it disabled causes the first drive to be erased automatically—so extra caution is needed after BIOS updates or CMOS reset before attempting a boot.