GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R raid drivers on xp install

I have a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R setup with 4 SATA hard drives. The last 3 drives are setup on RAID5. The first drive is the OS drive.

I boot the XP Pro installation cd, and if I don't press F6 to load third party drivers then I get a blue screen (0x0000007b i think). So I'm guessing that its the RAID drivers not configured (I even tried booting with a different primary hard drive, same blue screen).

So I tried to install the raid drivers (got them from Gigabyte's website), burned them to a cd (no floppy drive in this new system) and when I press F6 it mentioned that I can load the drivers from a cd or floppy. So I continue and it says to put a disk in drive A. Well I don't have a drive A so I put my cd I burned into the cd drive (which also is SATA) and try to continue but it just loads for a second (no LED activity on the cd drive), then goes back to the 'Insert Manufacturer Labeled Disk into Drive A" screen. From there I can only cancel or continue the installation without loading the third party drivers.

I thought it was possible to load third party drivers from the cd... Do I have the right drivers? I'm not sure where the problem lies?

If I have the right drivers, how can I load them minus a floppy drive?

Thanks!

Actually I ended up scrapping an old FDD from an older machine and actually found a Floppy Diskette

I got the drivers (I think the right ones) from the site and put them on the floppy disk but it still keeps asking for the driver... Which driver do I use?

I figured it out. I had set the fdd mode to A3 (or something) in the bios. As soon as I set it to standard fdd it worked!