Restoring RAID after BIOS reset

I have five disks connected to the Intel Matrix raid controller on my MSI P55-GD65 mobo. Four of them are set up to use RAID as two pairs of mirrors, i.e. I have two 500GB disks that are mirrored and two 1TB disks that are mirrored and one other disk that is connected to the controller but is not part of a RAID configuration but has my installation of Windows 7 on it. This has been working like this for over 18 months now.
Last night I changed some setting in the BIOS to try get my new memory to run at 1600Mhz. Long story short: it didn't work so I reset the BIOS using the jumper on the mobo.
I've since only been able to boot the mobo when the BIOS has the RAID controller settings set to "IDE". But when I do that I see each of the four "RAIDed" disks as individual disks in Windows. If I set the RAID Controller to "RAID" in the BIOS I get the RAID controller bios prompt (Ctrl+I) and can see everything is set up there correctly - i.e. It can see the two mirrors and the one other disk. But on trying to boot I get "select proper boot device blah blah blah".
In the boot device order page in the BIOS with the Intel controller set to "RAID" the one disk that is on the raid controller but that isn't part of a RAID configuration (i.e. my Windows disk) shows up with the prefix "RAID:".  It's as if the BIOS doesn't know it isn't actually a raid disk.
I've even tried moving the windows disk to the separate SATA 7 port on the mobo to no avail.
I'm at the point where I've backed up my windows partition and I'm about to re-install Windows, although this sounds too dramatic! surely there's a way around this!?!

have you checked hard-disk priority in bios?

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