I was thinking of getting XP with SP2, however I’ve heard and seen problems with people running a motherboard with a RAID controller. I have an Abit mobo that has RAID... the 2 main IDE ports I run my DVD and DVD-RW drive each as Masters... and the 2 other IDE ports I have my 2 HDD's each as masters. I was just told that you just need to turn OFF the RAID so that Windows will work, but if i do that, it will not see my HDD's. But I WANT to keep each drive as a master (utilizing all 4 IDE ports). Thoughts? Thanks all! J
if you dont have a problem then dont try to fix it... stop believing everything you here. leave your computer alone if it works
there is a problem... it dosent work. it comes up saying CAN NOT INSTALL WINDOWS XP BECAUSE OF NO HDD. regular XP and SP1 both work fine... SP2 is giving me this problem.
btw, i'm running an AMD processor if that makes any diffrence... i know that were were some issues with AMD when XP first came out... lagging at startup and what not.
there are'nt 2 IDE ports on the mobo... there are 4... which has 1 drive on it thus making them each Masters.
when windows xp is setting up it says "press f6 to install 3rd part raid software" - thats what you need to do, you need to find the sata driver for your motherboard (your mobo driver cd may have a utility to create a floppy disk with these drivers on) when youve loaded the driver it will work
pulsar , again... 4 IDE SLOTS... meaning i'm able to have 8 drives all on at the same time. "when windows xp is setting up it says "press f6 to install 3rd part raid software" - thats what you need to do, you need to find the sata driver for your motherboard (your mobo driver cd may have a utility to create a floppy disk with these drivers on) when youve loaded the driver it will work" SypherTek, yes i've already attempted this... did'nt work... still dosent see the drives on the other 2 IDE slots (the hdd's). i've tested this 2 ways so far... if i use an XP CD with SP2 already on it, this happen's.... if i use an XP CD with SP0, it installs fine, then i just add SP2 after that. Why is that? Thanks! J
maybe your sp2 disk is screwed... if it works using an old disk and then updating to sp2 then do that... i have no idea why one disk would pick the drives up but the other wouldnt... the installer is still EXACTLY the same and has been for every XP version so i dont see how or why it would make a difference. it should only be affected by a different serivce pack once the OS is actually installed not during the set up
