ic7-gmax unable to instlal windows xp on raid array

[Guest]

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guys I have
p4 3.0 GHz
2x120Gb samsung sata

I have two problems:

1. I had the 2 hds on intel controller. I set up raid0 in intel bios .
However it will go the next sequence which displays silicon image controller
message an dthen hangs there; will not go through the boot sequence

2. now I switched the hds to silicon image controller and set up the raid0
in silicon image bios. goes through the windows xp instllation. xp asks for
drivers and i provide therm through the floppy. After huge and long sequnce
xp comes back and sys it cnnot any find mass storage devices and asks me
instll ide hard drive!!

any ideas?

 

[TomG]

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you had the boot sequence set incorrectly in the boot priority in the bios.
you want to have the boot priority set to ONCHIP SATA for the Intel ICH5R
controller. I would put the drives back onto the Intel controller and set
the boot priority correctly and then give it another go. Have the Intel
drivers, newest available downloaded from their website, available on floppy
and hit F6 to install the drivers when you see the prompt early in the
install process...

what other drives are on the system and what channels are they installed on?

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"nanjil" <kumarchi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:s8qdnTZhyK-NzBzdRVn-uA@comcast.com...
> guys I have
> p4 3.0 GHz
> 2x120Gb samsung sata
>
> I have two problems:
>
> 1. I had the 2 hds on intel controller. I set up raid0 in intel bios .
> However it will go the next sequence which displays silicon image
controller
> message an dthen hangs there; will not go through the boot sequence
>
> 2. now I switched the hds to silicon image controller and set up the
raid0
> in silicon image bios. goes through the windows xp instllation. xp asks
for
> drivers and i provide therm through the floppy. After huge and long
sequnce
> xp comes back and sys it cnnot any find mass storage devices and asks me
> instll ide hard drive!!
>
> any ideas?
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Have you tried raising your DDR voltage to 2.7 or 2.77v? Your symptoms or
very similar symptoms have been reported and resolved in this manner by many
people with an IC7 series motherboard. This is certainly the case with
Corsair RAM as I've had and resolved the problem.