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I just recently bought an x58m motherboard, I have a brand new fresh install of windows 7 and everything seems to work fine. 
However, in the bios If I try to enable either raid or ahci as raid options I get a bluescreen before the OS even loads. 
I am not running any drives in raid, the reason why I wish to enable achi is that I want my e-sata drive to be hot swappable. 
Currently I have to turn it on before my computer and turn it off after my computer. 
The only suggestion I've seen regarding raid settings is to install a fresh version of windows with them enabled. 
I'd like to avoid doing this if at all possible. 
 
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Have you install all JMicron drivers already? Please install even the RAID drivers even if you don't use RAID.
 
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However, in the bios If I try to enable either raid or ahci as raid options I get a bluescreen before the OS even loads. 
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Please be more specific, otherwise nobody here can give you proper advice.

First of all, you should be aware of the fact that the board actually has two different controllers that each control different Ports:

- Intel ICH10R (SATA Ports 1~6)
- JMicron 363 (additional SATA Port, eSata Port and IDE Port)

Each controller has its own BIOS Setting to switch between IDE/Legacy Mode, AHCI Mode and RAID Mode and each controller also needs its own proper driver for RAID/AHCI Mode. 

Which SATA Port is your system hard drive connected to? (This is the first important question).  The next question is: Which controller did you switch to AHCI or RAID Mode?  Which RAID/AHCI Drivers did you install and how were you able to do that, if the AHCI/RAID Mode was not even enabled at that point (you said you get a BSOD after switching the controller mode (which is normal) and could therefore not have installed the drivers afterwards, right?)?
 
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mrblah said:
I just recently bought an x58m motherboard, I have a brand new fresh install of windows 7 and everything seems to work fine. 
However, in the bios If I try to enable either raid or ahci as raid options I get a bluescreen before the OS even loads. 
I am not running any drives in raid, the reason why I wish to enable achi is that I want my e-sata drive to be hot swappable. 
Currently I have to turn it on before my computer and turn it off after my computer. 
The only suggestion I've seen regarding raid settings is to install a fresh version of windows with them enabled. 
I'd like to avoid doing this if at all possible. 
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Can you make a signature with your hardware listed (such as others have)? It would help immensely in many situations.
 
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I do realize that there are two controllers I have all of my hard drives (except the external sata) plugged into the ICH10R ports. 

It makes no mention in the bios which controller I am adjusting to raid or ahci.  I have installed all the drivers that came with the provided cd, there is no new bios revision. 
As far as how I installed the drivers, I have been running in IDE mode, this is the only mode that will boot, I installed the drivers and after a successful reboot went into the bios and changed to achi and raid going through 3 bsods each before switching back. 

I did however fix my original problem after installing the raid drivers and going through a few bsods, the e-sata does detect as hot swappable. 

I appreciate all the help. 

My complete system spec:

MSI x58m (bios 1.2)
i7 920 @ 2.67
6gb Corsair
1x250gb Samsung HDD (primary)
2x1.5tb Seagate (secondary)

 
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It makes no mention in the bios which controller I am adjusting to raid or ahci.
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The RAID Setting for the Intel ICH10R Controller is located here:

Integrated Peripherals -> On-Chip ATA Devices -> RAID Mode = [IDE / AHCI / RAID]

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As far as how I installed the drivers, I have been running in IDE mode, this is the only mode that will boot, I installed the drivers and after a successful reboot went into the bios and changed to achi and raid going through 3 bsods each before switching back.
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That is precisely where the problem starts:  You cannot install the drivers for something that is not there yet.  When you install the drivers while the controller is in IDE mode, they are not actually installed.  The controller already needs to be in RAID Mode, otherwise the drivers can't be properly installed.  This is a common Windows dilemma.  Even though Vista and Windows 7 are supposed to be able to handle a switch of the controller mode to AHCI or RAID better than XP because they provide generic drivers, they utterly fail in most cases, because the drivers are either crap or the routine for adapting to the switch to RAID or AHCI is useless.  Also, keep in mind, that Windows 7 is still not officially released and that Intel does not provide official driver support for Windows 7 yet.  The bottom line is, that this whole thing is a problem that has to do with the operating system alone, not the board or BIOS.

The best option you have is to switch the controller to RAID Mode, then configure your Array via the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM, start to reinstall Windows 7 again and integrate the Intel ICH10R RAID Drivers when you get the chance to do so during the Setup Procedure.  If you decide to do so, please download the latest ICH10R RAID Drivers directly from Intel.
 
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First I was changing the settings in the correct location. 

Secondly, I had read about this problem on these forums and did suspect that this was a operating system problem.  But since I fixed my original issue of having an e-sata port being hot swappable, I don't really care enough to go through yet another reformat.  I may however post about this issue on the windows 7 forums just to make some people aware of it. 

Thank you for your help I really appreciate it. 
 
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