Re: Raid 0 not booting

Assuming youve checked mobo manual for any specific sata/raid settings in
the system bios
Have you tried the origonal winxp cd, with the F6 option to install raid
drivers from floppy?

"scout694" <scout694@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First off the specs.

AMD M3A mobo
AMD Phenom 9500 quad core CPU using a zalman 9700 Ultra quiet CPU cooler
2X 1GB kingston 1066 DDR2 for 2GB DDR2 setup in proper slots for dual data
rate setup according to mobo instructions
BFG 8800 GT OC graphics card
2X 500 GB WD Sata hard drives setup in RAID 0

(Raid info is set and saved in bios setup, reads both drives as one,
formatted using NTFS file system.)I used a slipstreamed installation of
windows XP raid drivers integrated and SP2.

The raid portion of the bios is seperate from the startup bios the drives
do
not show up in the bios themselves with "raid" enabled. I have 4 ports
for
the sata drives to plug into. SATA 1/2/3/4 according to the manual is
says
nothing about how the raid drives should be plugged in SATA 1&3 are the
"boot" plugs which i have the raid setup on, SATA 2&4 ar the slave plugs.
Ive tried switching the plugs around and reformat and reinstall of windows
still nothing has worked.



Problem:

I have done a complete installation of Windows XP onto the hard drives
using
the sliptreamed disk, went off without a hitch. Everything smooth with
the
installation until it comes to first boot after install is complete. It
goes
to Windows load screen, a split second of the Blue screen of death(Unable
to
read the fault it dissapears too quick) and then reboots the system. I
have
tried recovery, safe mode and safe mode to commad prompt nothing is
working.
I have done slipstreaming to a raid drive with my laptop since HP decided
to
do that with the pavilion series and it works just fine. Of course i
changed
and added the correct drivers to get the tower working.



In dire need of help here or else $1200 worth of hardware will sit and not
work. Ive done everything i can think of to get this solved. Other than
put
the drives into a reg SATA setup but i dont want to do that i want the
perormance of the raid 0 setup.




.

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