While I have installed Win 7 (64-bit) apparently successfully, I have a problem with a 2-minute delay during the "Starting Windows" screen display. It takes me more than two minutes to get past this screen and on to the logon screen.
The delays seem to be a two-minute timeout followed by an entry in the system event log for event 9 saying "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period."
I am testing using Win 7 Ultimate, 64-bit, TechNet release. I have seen the same problem since I started testing with Win 7 RC.
With earlier Win 7 builds, I tried updated the Intel Matrix Storage Management driver (using 7/17/2009 version). This changed the "Source" field on the message from "iastorV" to "iaStor," and the number of 2-minute delays during "Starting Windows" varied from one to five, for a total of two to ten minute delay while starting Windows. There is no newer Intel driver since the last one I tested, so I have not yet tried it on this install since one two-minute delay is better than as many as five.
The configuration, which works fine with Windows XP Pro, is:
Asus P5W DH Deluxe, BIOS 2901
4 GB RAM (4 x 1GB)
ICH7R in RAID mode, EZ-Backup disabled so the SI chip is not used and I have four SATA ports from the ICH7R. One port goes to a 1 TB boot drive (with first partition the WinXP partition and the fourth the Win7 partition), two ports go to a RAID 0 array of two 500 GB drives, and the final port is connected to another 1 TB drive.
JMicron JMB363 controller in Basic or AHCI modes, connected to a Samsung SH-S183L SATA DVD drive (I tried disabling the JMicron controller while testing other problems and that resulted in no change to the iaStor timeout problem)
I have updated the BIOS to the latest 2901 and updated firmware on the DVD drive (which seems not relevant to this problem).
I tried running the Win 7 Upgrade Adviser Beta on my system (under XP), and the advisor crashes. The Vista Advisor says my system is ok for Vista (however I've never installed Vista).
Here's the event log entry:
Log Name: System
Source: iaStorV
Date: 8/7/2009 10:30:24 AM
Event ID: 9
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Orca
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="iaStorV" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">9</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-08-07T17:30:24.061355500Z" />
<EventRecordID>613</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Orca</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Ide\iaStor0</Data>
<Binary>0F0005000100000000000000090004C00100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to solve this problem.
