74 GB WD Raptor

[MaMMa]

I just got one of these for my DFI Lanparty NFII ULtra rev b.

at the beggining after the dfi boot logo, Theres this black screen that says Press CTRL+S or hit F4 ( NOT F6 ) To enter RAID Utilities or something. Just below it it says something like :

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I press F4 and go in, its to set up RAID0 , RAID1 and so one. (This is not BIOS)

There is nothing to press F6. I have win2k loaded on my 160 gig. So i boot to windows and the raptor is recognized as a " Simple Volume " and is labled as a drive in my computer. I can put files into the drive and everything BUT it won't pick up in BIOS. So... When I pop in my win2k cd to install windows on it, the drives does not pick up during installation.

I installed all the raid drivers also. And yes its been formatted time and time agian. Its weird. What am I doing wrong?

[dandragonrage]

It won't show up in the regular BIOS because it's on the SATA controller, not on the nForce chipset itself.

Never bother with the RAID setup utility when you only have 1 drive in the first place.

You need to either slipstream SiI3112-RAID drivers onto your XP CD or burn them to a floppy disk and use the F6 key to load them during Windows setup.

[MaMMa]

OOOO you press F6 during the setup, I had the impression that I was suppsed to press it during boot up.

ANd yes I didnt want to run RAID, and was getting confused on why I thought I had to go in there. THanks, gonna try it now!

edit:

One thing now though, I can't find the driver for the SATA for my board on the DFI website? I looked under all the drivers under my board and theres nothing about SATA. HELP?!

DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra rev b,

[MaMMa]

wo0t got it workin, thank you all!