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HD/RAID issue

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sakurakana1003

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Sorry for posting this here but thought I might get an answer sooner.

Hey guys I'm helping my friend build a system but ran into a problem, I chose this motherboard for him http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16813131519 with a regular Western Digital 250GB HD but couldn't get the HD properly recognized by BIOS.

The motherboard has 1 IDE connector and 2 IDE RAID connectors, according to the manual the RAID connectors will act as regular IDE connectors as long as an Ultra IDE cable is used (provided in the motherboard box) and the RAID controller is set to IDE mode in BIOS, did all that. The drive could be found at the starting screens but could not show up in BIOS, that's no problem actually but I couldn't get Windows XP to install through CD start-up because it cannot find the HD. My Win98 start-up disk and FDISK on that will find the drive just fine, so before I left I created partitions through FDISK although the disk sizes looked all wrong, too tired it's 4am in the morning I'm gonna have to continue working on it tomorrow.

How can I get this machine to work properly and get WinXP installed? Thanks so much in advance for any help.
 
Get a driver disk (or slipstream one) and give it drivers. That's probably the problem.
 
unhappy_mage said:
Get a driver disk (or slipstream one) and give it drivers. That's probably the problem.
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Remindes me of when I had to slipstream in drivers for my IC7-MAX3's SATA RAID controller....boy was that fun.

The thing to remember when slipstreaming drivers is to take your time. It may take a while to do, but you end up with a custumised install CD for your specific hardware, saving lots of headaces later on.
 
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