[Doylo]

Just got this while my computer was booting up, a black screen with the words detecting array. Anyone know what this means, am a bit worried cos to say the least.

[squeek]

Something to do with trying to find a Harddisk array on your computer, might be either SATA or SCSI arrays.  Some options might be in your BIOS config to disable these or set it to not look for them.

Found this somewhere else:

Absolutely correct about the BIOS setting being ignored. It's linked to the RTL8169 ethernet. This board has two GB ethernets one an NVidia and the RTL8169.
Strangely when I enable the RTL ethernet I get a POST message NVIDIA RAID ROM BIOS vX.XX on startup then a "detecting arrays" message appears. This is despite the fact I have RAID DISABLED in the BIOS and there is no RAID array configured.
If I disable the RTL I receive no such message. I haven't the foggiest idea what the ethernet controller has to do with the RAID, but there is definitely a connection.
I have no doubt that this ethernet controller (the RTL 8169) is what is fooling devicemapper into thinking I have a RAID array enabled. That is what caused my whole problem in the first place.
So I went and disabled the RTL, re-booted and tried to re-install Fedora. Sure enough at the Disk Druid screen I could see both drives SDA and SDB. I'm sure if I would have gone further Grub and Fedora would have booted normally bootstrapping off Boot Magic.
So there are two options to make Fedora work with this board on installation. Use the nodmraid option or disable the RTL 8169. I opted for the first as at least I have both ethernets working.

[Doylo]

ta squeek, its all another language to me

[squeek]

No worries.  General gist is your computer's looking for a hard drive array when it starts up.  If it's still working fine then I won't worry about it.

The quote basically said the guy had two on board (built into the motherboard) network cards, and when he had the RTL network card enabled he got the message, but when he disabled it he didn't.  A lot of the other information is because he was trying to install Fedora Linux and this RTL network card looking for an array was causing him problems. 

So if you have a network card on your motherboard you could try disabling it if you don't use it.  Usually you get into the BIOS configuration by pressing F2 or delete when you turn your computer on, but it does depend on the mother board.  It will say "Press <key> to enter config".

[Doylo]

yeah will try disabling network card through BIOS, at the moment i can't get into windows at all.