bloody bootless wonder toy

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well
my friend built me my new machine

am getting stuck in raid bios and cant clear drives
seems to setup in raid0 shows stripe and loads drivers at f6[w2k]
then
says cannot find drives
yet just saw them in bios?
checked drives were on sata 1 ,2
epox tech had me going in bios loops ouch
have raid enabled
raid bootable
sata1 raid
sata 2 raid

im greatly more than dissapointed
and poor
HELP me







EPOX 9npa ultra
amd64 3800
2xraptor 36gb
connect 3d x700 pro
lite-on cd rw
enermax 485watt atx2 noisetaker

You need to have the correct drivers on a floppy disk for this!

XP Service Pack 2 and Server 2003 will see individual SATA drives without a driver but for any OS below that and for ANY kind of RAID array you need the F6 driver disk. If you've got SATA drives in RAID (or even as standalone) you need the F6 floppy disk driver and when you see the prompt hit F6. The setup continues for a bit then asks you if you have a manufacturer's driver disk for any RAID arrays. You press 'S' to have it search the floppy drive and it gives you a highlighted white box with your choices.

The driver you need to look for is NVIDIA SerialATA F6 Driver and you need to go back and press 'S' and install both parts of the driver (both show up as required). If you've done it correctly you'll see a little list appearing as you add the drivers and when you're done press 'Enter' which allows you to go on to the actual setup of Windows.

To keep things easy, just load the Nvidia RAID drivers to start with; you can load the Highpoint 370 ones more easily in Windows once the system is built and patched up. I'd also advise you to disconnect any drives attached to the Highpoint controller until you're ready to install the system and you'll have a clean painless setup. Lastly, leave the disk in until it's done, don't pull it out after you've loaded the drivers as it will only ask for them again!

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can setup raid bios normally
cant get out of it with its command to exit or use clear command

went thru bios and raid setup with epox 2x
the raid bios doesnt exit and doesnt clear the drives
also was able to f6 drivers 2x

all ends up same story cannot find drive when its time for os to install
i should have to reset the machine to exit raid bios? epox tech

im going back on phone with epox reset cmos let them "help"
then rma :r the #$^^%$ mobo for
msi