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Are you having any problems with the Marvell Chipset on your Bad Axe 2 motherboard?

Some symptoms include:
1) drive is missing after boot or after suspend. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJbxes88ik )
2) system hangs on boot sometimes with the HD light cycling on for 10 second, off for 10s, repeating....
3) system crashes after suspend
4) occasionally yellow bang on the marvel controller

or maybe it's some other symptom, please let us know and also state how frequently it happens.

I used to have problem 1 above with drives connected to the Marvell controller disappearing sometimes after boot or after resume from suspend, but after installing the latest driver, the symptom has now changed to the computer occasionally hanging during boot. The drives still disappear after resuming though; only the boot behavior has changed somewhat.

I have similar problem(1) with Marvell raid. my boot drive is on Intel Raid-5 and use Marvell raid-0 for AV/data. Every time I reboot the system, everything is fine until windows starts and then Marvell raid is dropped (no array available). When I reboot again, this time I get a “no array defined” at startup. I go to Marvell setup and create the same array (raid-0) and reboot and everything is back to normal (no data is lost). I’m pretty sure this started when I updated Marvell driver 11/26/2007 ver 2.10.0.10.
I removed the driver and let vista install the latest driver, but problem still exist. I'm hoping the next update will fix this problem. This is not a major problem cause I rarely reboot (my pc is always on), but annoying.
Vista-64, D975xbx2, 8GB.