Troubles with RAID . . .

Boy, am I ever having trouble with RAID! I'm having no luck whatsoever.

Basically, I'm running an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe BIOS rev. 1007. I have 2 x 120 GB Seagate drives and a RAID card with a Silicon Image chipset (SD-SIL680-RAID).

So far, I have wiped my hard drives entirely, connected them to the installed RAID card, tried to install Windows XP (and 3rd party RAID drivers) but no luck. Windows installer formats the drives and copies files to them ... but when it actually goes to start to install Windows, it says:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

Please reinstall a copy of the above file.

This is freaking annoying. Oh yeah, and before I start installing Windows, I do initialize my RAID array.

My two hard drives are set up as Primary Master/Slave. I have no idea what to do now .. I tell BIOS to boot SCSI first ... but nothing is working! I am sooooo frusturated.

In order to get information on this, I did a temporary install of Windows, installed drivers, etc. But now, when I put the RAID card in the PCI slot, Windows will not even boot! I don't get an error message or anything ... anybody have some ideas? Thanks ...

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