I give up...need help!

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hello,
i am done w/ trying to figure this out. i have an asus p5nd2 motherboard w/
PD 830 processor. other components include: xfx geforce 7800 GTX video card,
2 g OCZ RAM, 2x 100gig Maxtor SATA drives, and the other general hardware
components.

my problem is this. my mobo has the nvidia raid controller built in, and i
have installed the two hard drives on SATA 1 & SATA 2. i went through the
steps to setup the hardware raid through bios, did the drivers thing, and
installed windows w/o any problems. upon bootup the raid array is noted as
being healthy, but on the reboot, my system hangs at the black windows xp
splash screen. however, it will start up in safemode, safemode w/
networking, but not last know good config.

i have tried: 1) not to install any drivers, most notably my video card
driver...same problem. 2) switched SATA ports for my HDs....same problem.
3) used recovery console to run chkdsk /r command....found errors and fixed
them....still same problem.

so finally, out of pure frustration, i installed my OS in the traditional
single disk set. It runs like a champ. i even installed the OS on the
other HD to see if maybe i have a HD problem...no problem.

i'm not sure what to do now. any suggestions? thanks.
 
During the XP install there comes a screen that says push F6 to install 3rd
party drivers for xxx drives....at this point you should have pushed F6 and
installed the SATA Raid drivers that came with your mobo ..........maybe on
the CD and if so you will need to copy them to a floppy as this is the only
place XP will look for them.
peter
 
I agree, This is definitely a RAID issue. Use the txtsetp.oem file that you
should get from nvidia's website.

Do the F6 install option, (as previosuly advised) and that should fix it.

Also you can do the install one way, then create the raid-1 only mirror
Once the OS is installed.

You may have driver issues that way - but you may not.


I checked Asus's website and found 2 separate files, I downloaded the
biggest one and checked the driver there...

The file you need is definitely there...

Here is the link:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Robert Bollinger, MCP.
 
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