975X platitnum power up edition - RAID problems

hey, I'm not sure if this is a BIOS problem, or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
What I want to do is set-up RAID-0, I'm not new to RAID, and I'm not new to home built PCs, I'm even an IT student, but this MB confuses me lol, at first i got it set-up fine, it took me a while but i installed windows on the array. Then because the BIOS seemed abit buggy and it was out of date, i decided to use the MSI live update utility to update the BIOS, everything seemed to go fine, I restarted as it told me to do, then the BIOS said "CMOS error, defaults loaded" so i entered the BIOS and changed all the settings to what i wanted. Then the OS wouldn't boot off the RAID array, and it wasnt even dectecting the RAID Array. The SATA mode is set to RAID (the HDDs are being dected by the BIOS when its not RAID mode). The problem is I cant get into the Intel matrix BIOS, it just isn't there, it appears to have.... well disappeared after I updated the BIOS. Is there something I've missed? has anyone one else had this problem?
I've tried re-flashing the BIOS with the back-up floppy that MSI live update created, I've also tried flashing the BIOS useing a floppy i created with the newest BIOS version, and resetting the CMOS (by taking the battery out) but i still cant get into the RAID/Intel Matrix storage BIOS.
Please help ASAP, i need to get this problem sorted out quickly,
Thanks, Martyn

Hi
Having just done the upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 I can confirm that it doesn't impact the raid array. However what might be happening is a problem that I have encountered and which I haven't yet successfully resolved.
On my 975X PUE v2 MB, I can only get into the Raid options for the intel chipset (via CTRL-I) if I have the Jmicron option disabled in the bios. If the JMicron option (ide, raid or disabled) is not set to disabled then I get the Jmicron bios messages and then a warning relating to an option rom which flashes on and off the screen too quickly to see the detail (rather than the bios messages from the intel chipset regarding raid array and CTRL-I to access the RAID setup page)
When you update the bios the CMOS is reset to defaults. One of these defaults is that Jmicron is set to IDE.
Hope this helps.
Freeflow

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GFX : Sapphire X1950GT 256MB
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@deastwood:
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Sympathies - We have a similar setup. I returned my first Corsair twins as the board would not boot with them as a twin. Turns out one was supposedly defective. BUT - when I recently replaced my Corsair twin 800s that did not work eventually with twin 1Gb CL4 800 Crucial Ballistix stix - I had a severe reboot issue and frequently - the system would not start without hitting the reset or the cold boot start button on the powerup many times. When it did not start I had the same LED settings you noted.
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I don't know how much digging you've done, but when the 975x Plat PUE boards just came out, it was a huge deal how notoriously incompatible OCZ was with MSI just on that board. I had some OCZ Platinum XTC sticks (rev1 RMAd to rev 2), and nothing worked with them.
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