Major Vista RAID Problems
Flying Nerd details a major Windows Vista malfunction that appears to occur to owners of Intel Matrix Storage RAID controllers (and possibly, Maxtor hard drives). The issue can make it impossible to install Vista, or result in random system meltdowns, slow downs, freezes, reboots and random data corruption. The problem is the result of some last-minute Vista power management features that Intel implemented incorrectly.
I recommend reading the page, as well as the many linked pages, if you have been having any strange problems with Vista. If you do have this error, there might be a registry fix that can save your system, and if not, at least it’ll help you know what’s going on.
Big thanks to Mike for the hat-tip.
I wrote about this in my blog (and the fix):
http://www.pdsys.org/blog/2007/04/10/DellAndIntelScrewUpBigTimeIaStorAndWindowsVista.aspx
It’s completely asinine that Dell didn’t do ANYTHING about it. They should have caught it in product testing.
Comment by Nicholas | September 10, 2007