Sounds like an odd equation right? But it is the real deal. I have had Vista up for a few months now and apparently hadn't tried to play any Quicktime movies. When I finally did the video kept locking up, actually the whole screen was locking up. Now at the same time I was encoding an MOV file into Flash so I was cursing Flash 8 Encoder. A few seconds later BAAMM! Blue screen of death! Now this is Vista...all of that stuff is supposed to be fixed I said to myself. No problem right? Just reboot and uninstall Flash or Quicktime and I am on my way. Oh no...not so fast. I get a nice little RAID "Failed" message when I reboot and a pretty little NTLDR is missing, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot! Ugh! So after about an hour of searching on the net and looking in the BIOS for some kind of reset I gave up. Started thinking about a rebuild. So what did I do to fix it?
Here are the steps: (BTW - This is on a Dell Dimension 8400 but the steps should be about the same for any PC with an Intel RAID Controller)
- Reboot
- When the screen comes up verifying your RAID array it should said Status = Failed & Bootable = No
- Right then press CTRL+i to go into the RAID Configuration screen.
- A message that says something to this effect will pop up: "A Recoverable error has been detected. Member disk have been found that may belong to this RAID. If the member disk belong press "Y"..."
- Press "Y" or which ever is the positive button to push.
- Reboot again
- Windows will run CheckDisk, Reboot a few more times for good measure and you should be set.
- Uninstall Quicktime
Well that's about it. I couldn't find this info anywhere on the internet so I decided to write it up. I have also tried the Quicktime Alternative, which I generally recommend, but had nearly the same issue. PC started to freeze so I did a hard reset before it could blue screen. I read others have tried it with success so give it a shot. I don't know who's responsible for the fix but I will keep my eyes peeled.