[Doodily]

Wow! After a lot of issues with my ASUS P5K-E mobo running with RAID1 on the boot drive, I decided to re-install without RAID. Forgot that I should have installed the RAID drivers for my data drive and was panicking (cause I didn't want to re-install for the 3rd time).

I came across this thread and I am SOOO happy (cause I still wanted RAID1), but didn't install the drivers during setup.

Anyhow, I had some issues at the beginning:
1) Couldn't find the 7.5.0.1017 drivers, so I grabbed the latest drivers (8.6.0.1007).
2) Thought I had ICH9(R) for RAID and AHCI so I installed the ICH9R-AHCI.reg and the ICH8R-AHCI.reg files, and after switching to RAID in the BIOS menu, I got the blue screen during the windows load. Finally I figured out that I don't have ICH9(R) (hahaha, I feel so noob)! Turns out I had ICH8(R) for RAID/AHCI.

So, I installed the right registry file (ICH8R-RAID.reg) and everything worked tickty-boo (no bsod).

Thanks for the great thread.

Doodily!


P.S. Is it okay to leave the Registry entries (since I don't have the ICH9(R) chipset), or should I remove them?

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System: XP Professional, Q9450, 4 gigs memory, 2x500g WD RAID1, 1x500g Samsung boot drive, ASUS P5K-E mobo