OK, upon further testing and multiple reboots, it's now finally loading past RAID scan with single drives in RAID mode.
But, there is some issue there because I did reboot a few times previously and it wasn't helping, and I also noted that "Force" making it load by hot pluging a drive was causing other issues (Windows would stall rebooting/shutting down, and detection of newly connected USB Drives post hot plug and AIDA64 load would fail)
So, not sure what's going on, but it seems to have corrected itself though? It's not my system itself, I know that, I review hardware and it's not my fir