then turn on the PC and enter the bios (F7 - the latest from the Gigabyte website) and enable the SATA RAID controller and turn on the RAID for Channel 1 Primary, Channel 1 Secondary and Channel 2 Primary. Channel 2 secondary was left disabled. I also set...

installation I first configured the bios so that sata channels 1-4 were set to RAID and 5and 6 set to IDE. Then is plugged in the hard drives and using the onboard RAID configuration tool, configured a RAID 1 . After that was recognized, I then unplugged...

can't even disable raid to troubleshoot. Thanks. I would disconnect the RAIDs (to protect them) and do a CMOS reset, followed by a "Load Optimized Defaults. You don't want your RAIDs accessed while the MOBO 'doesn't know' that they're RAIDs; at that point,...

or out of the onboard RAID. Wow.... I'm an idiot... Thats exactly what it was raven! I thought there was just enable/disable raid for the whole board, but apparantly not. Thanks !!!!! Don't worry dustin, I share your idiocy :P ...

second the epoxy motherboard, either the 8k5a2 or 8k5a3. i dont think ANY motherboards come with 4 plain IDE channels, so u will need a raid equipped board. an interesting thing is the 8k5a3, it had not 2 but 4 raid channels, so you could well have a drive...

c drive whereas xp doesn't matter. However, if 98 is installed on the a standard ide channel after xp is loaded on the raid channel, it doesn't matter since the raid controller can be disabled and 98 never sees it and can't overwrite anything. You should...

and over, it seems like eternity!) to do 'drive discovery'; what I do is disable the RAID, set the first boot item to CDROM, and toss in a bootable copy of MemTest, so it will 'catch' the boot, before it can 'see' my drives, and screw up the RAIDs. Anyways...

about twelve or thirteen seconds for the RAID BIOS' 'discovering & checking' the drives; if I have to do numerous reboots to fiddle in the BIOS, I just disable RAID, and the drives come up individually (&quickly!) on the main POST screen, but I always start...

and disable RAID support, if you don't know what it is you shouldn't be using it. The problem is you're using RAID while you do not want to, so disable RAID support and reinstall the OS. You will lose all data on the harddrive(s). In your BIOS you should...

One thing I do know Intel has a Track Record of Changing sockets. Seems to me every 5 Months it differnt. So keep that in mind. RAID versions have RAID chip and two more IDE channels. With the RAID chip onboard, one can connect up to eight IDE devices instead...