New machine won't boot

I've had this new machine up for about a week and a half, and all of a sudden it started hanging (freezing) on me tonight.  Other than the drivers, utilities, etc. that came w/ the various hardware, I haven't installed much software: Office 2007, Firefox, AIM, and one game (TimeShift).  Everything was working great until tonight.  Except I had noticed that when I left the machine for a while and it went to sleep, when I tried to wake it up by moving the mouse, the screen would come up w/ my background and nothing else.  I would have to reboot to get it going again.  Tonight it all escalated.  It first hung when I was using Firefox.  Next time it was after I saw a brief message about an 'access error' on the raid mirror.  I then went into the nVidia Control panel, and it froze again.   No response from the keyboard or mouse at all.  Sometimes, the mouse pointer would disappear completely, and w/ still no response from the keyboard I'd have to reboot.  The last time windows was up, I tried to see if the game would start - it froze again.  After I pressed the reset button that time, it has not booted again.
I'm using the software raid (Raid 1 mirror), and it says the mirror is "healthy".  I can get into the Raid Setup and everything looks fine.  But when I get past the post, right when you're supposed to see the Windows moving bar, I hear a faint 'click', and then nothing - black screen.  I can also get to the BIOS just fine, and nothing appears to have changed.  It's possible that one of the hard drives is bad, but after all the trouble I had trying to get Raid to work on this board (cold boot issue, etc.), I also think that the board may be suspect.  I guess I will try disconnecting one of the drives, and see if it will boot off of one or the other.  But I would sure appreciate any other suggestions too!
TIA

Quote from: drachenfire on 09-February-08, 14:27:20
Well, I found I can boot off of the first drive (slot Sata 1), but not the second (slot Sata 2).  So I guess it might be the hard drive which is having a problem.  The odd thing is, that when both drives are plugged in, it won't boot.  If I disconnect the second one it will boot.  I thought that was the purpose of mirroring - if one drive went bad, it would boot off of the good one, and then you replace the bad one and rebuild your mirror.  Perhaps that means there something wrong w/ the nVidia raid??  I've never used raid before on a machine, so I don't have any experience with this sort of thing.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
No, the mirroring means you have a safe copy of your data, you will still need 2 disks........

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