AI7 RAID Setup help please
I have been trying for 2 days to set this up and I'm out of ideas...I searched and followed as many guides as possible but still end up with the same problem..all help will be appreciated
I have 2 160gig SATA drives connected to the SATA ports on the m/b..and I have my CD ROM set at Master connected to IDE 2..
BIOS is set as follows:
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES
Hard Disk Boot Priorty- 1. Bootable Add-In Device
-Bootable Add-in Device- OnChip SATA RAID
First Boot Device- Floppy
Second Boot Device- CDROM
Third Boot Device- Hard Disk
Boot Other Device- Enabled
Intergrated Peripherals
IDE Bus Master- Enabled
OnChip IDE1 Controll- Enabled
OnChip IDE2 Controll- Enabled
OnChip Serial ATA Settings
OnChip Serial ATA Mode- RAID
SATA RAID ROM- Enabled
*Greyed Out*
OnChip Serial ATA- Enhanced Mode
Serial ATA1 Mode- IDE3 Master
Serial ATA2 Mode- IDE4 Master
Reboot and CTRL I and setup RAID Volume1
Status Normal Bootable Yes
Boot From CD and F6
Selected Intel 82801ER SATA RAID Controller for XP & 2000
Installs Fine
Continue into XP setup sees Drives as one Disk Partioned 314 Gigs
Continue and full format
Installs all files and then prompts to remove floppy and reboot!!!
Now the problem!!!
Puter reboots but goes right back to a new XP setup again!!! I mean the whole setup again!!! It's driving me crazy!!! Tried changing boot sequence to Hard Drive then CDROM but I get a HD insert system disk and if I leave CDROM in of course the install starts all over again...I know the files are being copied because XP asks to delete Windows folder the next install try......What am I doing wrong!!!!!!!!
Please help!!!!
I have been trying for 2 days to set this up and I'm out of ideas...I searched and followed as many guides as possible but still end up with the same problem..all help will be appreciated
I have 2 160gig SATA drives connected to the SATA ports on the m/b..and I have my CD ROM set at Master connected to IDE 2..
BIOS is set as follows:
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES
Hard Disk Boot Priorty- 1. Bootable Add-In Device
-Bootable Add-in Device- OnChip SATA RAID
First Boot Device- Floppy
Second Boot Device- CDROM
Third Boot Device- Hard Disk
Boot Other Device- Enabled
Intergrated Peripherals
IDE Bus Master- Enabled
OnChip IDE1 Controll- Enabled
OnChip IDE2 Controll- Enabled
OnChip Serial ATA Settings
OnChip Serial ATA Mode- RAID
SATA RAID ROM- Enabled
*Greyed Out*
OnChip Serial ATA- Enhanced Mode
Serial ATA1 Mode- IDE3 Master
Serial ATA2 Mode- IDE4 Master
Reboot and CTRL I and setup RAID Volume1
Status Normal Bootable Yes
Boot From CD and F6
Selected Intel 82801ER SATA RAID Controller for XP & 2000
Installs Fine
Continue into XP setup sees Drives as one Disk Partioned 314 Gigs
Continue and full format
Installs all files and then prompts to remove floppy and reboot!!!
Now the problem!!!
Puter reboots but goes right back to a new XP setup again!!! I mean the whole setup again!!! It's driving me crazy!!! Tried changing boot sequence to Hard Drive then CDROM but I get a HD insert system disk and if I leave CDROM in of course the install starts all over again...I know the files are being copied because XP asks to delete Windows folder the next install try......What am I doing wrong!!!!!!!!
Please help!!!!