Change AHCI to RAID ?

I've installed Windows 7 with AHCI and I'd like to enable to RAID option in the BIOS.
After I enable raid and I try to boot I get BSOD ...
Any ideas what drivers I need to load for Windows to boot?

if you get this error - probably you did - "stop 0x0000007B inaccessable_boot_device", take a look at this thread, otherwise, to help you, we need to understand what the issue is, so we need more information such as the error message you got or anything else.

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    Do you know if the Raid version can also work in AHCI mode, so I should be able to flash it before to receive my secon ssd ?
    yes it can
    Quote
    Is it really mandatory since my bios (last version) has a update function embedded ?
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    Last question, the procedure to flash indicated on msi site is complicate (usign usb boot)
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