I apologize first off, if this is in the wrong section.

Here is what i got.

Asus Z7S WS
1 WD Velociraptor SATA 300GB HDD
2 Seagate SATA 500GB HDD
2 Samsung DVD Burners SATA

My RAID controller is the Intel Matrix RAID controller.

I have 6 available SATA ports numbered 0 -> 5, thats cool. Everything is hooked up with via SATA.

But I want to install Windows Vista, so I pop in my Windows DVD and it starts up and leads me through install, thats all cool.
but then i say wait, i want to RAID my 2 Seagate HDDs in RAID0.

So i cancel installation and go to my BIOS and set my "Storage Configuration" To RAID. It WAS AHCI previously.
But as soon as I set it to RAID and reboot. my computer no longer Boots from the Windows DVD. I am pretty sure it picked up my DVD Burners, but its not reading from it.
So I swap it back to AHCI too see if it was my Burner broken, but no, in AHCI mode my DVD boots up again and I am back at installing Windows. O_O
It is almost as if my RAID setting is killing my DVD burners. What could be the problem?
-I've swapped the SATA slots of the DVD burners with my Seagate HDDs, and that did not help, so it is not a port inactivity issue.

how do I get it so that I can have my drives in RAID0 and be able to read the SATA DVD burners?
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I thought about doing the following, but haven't had time to test this out.
Set Storage Config to RAID, create the RAID 0 Array, reboot, go back to storage config and set to AHCI (I don't know that in doing this if it kills my RAID 0 Settings). Then boot to windows install and force load the RAID driver. PRAYING that maybe after doing that, Windows will pick up my RAID 0 Array as ONE HDD.

Anyone else have this problem? Or know how to fix it?

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If i get a IDE DVD-ROM and use that to install windows in RAID mode, if i successfully install windows with RAID drivers in the install process, will it even pick up my other 2 SATA DVD burners?