Degraded raid 1 SATAS

Everything has been working great on my 939 fx-53, 2 gig Corsair XMS 3200Pro, 2 SATA Seagate 160s, raid 1, BFG 6800 Ultra until I accidently screwed with the bus speeds (I'm a complete moron) which locked up the system and shut down COM ports. Machine wouldn't boot, etc.
I finally loaded failsafe bios settings and utimately got everything straightned out but while  bios was in this mode it defaulted to booting from my mirrored drive and Windows loaded (slowly) apparently for the first time, even telling me I had only several days left to registar it.
After resetting everything, including the raid 1, everything works fine except it is showing both hard drives as "degraded" even though using the Nvidia utility it shows them each to be healthy but mirroring as degraded. At F10 hitting R to rebuild does nothing but they appear to still be mirroring though I'm still getting the red flashing warning on boot that this mirrored drive is degraded.
Now when booting my PC takes FOREVER to boot and shutdown but otherwise seems to run fine.
How can I "re-mirror" these drives?
Thank you for any help!

One of the things that I did when I was building my system is to figure out how to do this.
What you need to do is to delete one of the degraded drives.  What happened is that at one point in time, the PC booted with only one drive active which put the two drives out of sync.  Now there are two active drives and the system does not know which one is supposed to be the "master".  So by deleting one, you force the remaining one to be the master and the other will be mirrored off of it.
When you boot, hit F10 to go into the raid setup.  Delete the degraded raid that you do not want.  Then Ctrl-X and reboot.  I am not sure if you have to assign the deleted drive back to the raid configuration or not.  But if you can, go ahead and do so.  Make sure that first drive is designated as the "boot" drive.  Then continue to re-boot and the drives should start the mirroring process.
I hope this helps.

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