RAID 1 problem

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code90

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I am running Win 7 with two Seagate 1tb drives in Raid 1. Has been working well for almost a year. I loaded Battlefield 3 onto my system and started playing it. After playing for a few hours, it locked the computer. (screen went black and nothing would happen). As I rebooted, I noticed message that " a disk in your array has failed or is not responding" popped up briefly. I tried to look through the AMD utility that comes up during booting, but must admit I'm in over my head. This is my first Raid system, and I know enough to just get myself into trouble. I'm guessing one of the HD has gone bad. I tried to run Seagate's Seatools to check the drives, but it would not run on the Raid drives. I alternately unplugged each HD and rebooted. Each would reboot to Win7 and even play Battlefield 3 (for short periods before locking up or going to BSOD). Have I made the right assumption? Could I be on the wrong track here? Could it be something with the MOBO or with my 6800 HD video card? Any help is much appreciated.
 
Now I'm not very experienced with RAID setups, but if it is saying that one of the drives has failed, then there could be a bad block in one of the drives. It still makes the drive usable, but not with a RAID (theoretically) because the drives wouldn't be the same anymore.

I would boot each drive, and check the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drives and make sure there aren't any errors that could be reporting a bad drive to the RAID controller.
 
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