Let me thank anyone in advance for ansewring this post, please excuse my ignorance if the ansewr just jumps out at the more knowledgeable mems of the community, ok here goes,
System info, Msi P4N diamond mobo,p4@3.2ghz, 2gigs kensington ram,2 deskstar hd's 80gb ea.(sata) BENQ dvd burner, Sony Dvd rom, chaintech 6600gt128mb 450watt atx v2.0 power supply,
now comes the problem, put everthing together, installed xp on hd#1 attempted to install raid drivers as instructed, when raid is enabled in bios i get a disk read error and i have to ctrl,alt,del. to restart and the only way to get passed this is to go back into bios and disable raid then it works fine, heres the wierd part when i started the system the first time evrything worked fine bothdvd drives showed up, after i tried to enable raid and then disabled it, only one dvd drive shows up, the other shows in bios but not in device mgr., i have the latest bios,checked the cable, switched the drives, tried runing the opposite drive in slave and the other as master, the sony always shows in bios but never in my computer or device mgr. i know the drive is working becuse i ran all the install cd from it originally. am i crazy? should i pay a professional to fix this? can anyone help?
THankyou thank you THANKYOU
System info, Msi P4N diamond mobo,p4@3.2ghz, 2gigs kensington ram,2 deskstar hd's 80gb ea.(sata) BENQ dvd burner, Sony Dvd rom, chaintech 6600gt128mb 450watt atx v2.0 power supply,
now comes the problem, put everthing together, installed xp on hd#1 attempted to install raid drivers as instructed, when raid is enabled in bios i get a disk read error and i have to ctrl,alt,del. to restart and the only way to get passed this is to go back into bios and disable raid then it works fine, heres the wierd part when i started the system the first time evrything worked fine bothdvd drives showed up, after i tried to enable raid and then disabled it, only one dvd drive shows up, the other shows in bios but not in device mgr., i have the latest bios,checked the cable, switched the drives, tried runing the opposite drive in slave and the other as master, the sony always shows in bios but never in my computer or device mgr. i know the drive is working becuse i ran all the install cd from it originally. am i crazy? should i pay a professional to fix this? can anyone help?
THankyou thank you THANKYOU