Gigabyte DS3P + raid setup HELP Please

[vidoprof]

I have looked and searched on here and well just general threads come up with nothing on my board or issue

I just bought a new rig motherboard in the title. I am trying to setup the RAID array for my data. I want to setup the OS drive NOT in RAID on just one hard drive. So I attached that to an orange sata port (there are two together) and then I attached 3x 750gb hd's to the middle orange sata ports (there are 4 together). I then went into the BIOS under integrated peripherals and set

Sata RAID/AHCI mode to (RAID) I then rebooted and went through the post screen and I hit Ctrl + I to setup the RAID array and I selected the 3 hd's I want in the array and reboot again. I THEN get through POST and the XP screen comes up for about 1 second and reboots. It does this everytime I try and reboot.

I am not using the 2 purple ports (gigabyte sata 2 chip) at all. I just don't know why I can't get it to work

Any ideas / thoughts?

Thanks
ryan

 

[Dangman]

- This is what you bought correct?:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R Intel Motherboard
2xG.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Memory
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
4xSamsung Spinpoint F1 750GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Samsung 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B
HIS Hightech Radeon HD 2600PRO H260PRF256EDDN-R Video Card
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad (Crossfire Edition) 750W Power Supply
Antec Nine Hundred Black Computer Case With Side Panel Window


- XP is already installed on the 640GB drive correct?
- Move your boot drive over to the purple Gigabyte SATA ports and make sure that it's the first boot drive in the BIOS.

 

[spine]

If you set the orange ports to raId mode then I think that any drives attached can only be run as part of a raid array. Luckily you have the separate gigabyte controller (purple slots) so you can put the non raid drive on that one as the guy above suggested and set that to non raid and it should work.

If not, then it sounds like a possible driver issue.