Asus P5W DH RAID0 - Cannot get XP to install - HELP

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I've spent way too long trying to get this to work.....making me want to put my fist through the screen.

I've got 2x WD Raptors 150GB

I've cabled them to SATA1 and SATA3 on the board

I've set the SATA to RAID in the BIOS and then during boot pressed CTRL+i to get into the RAID menu.

Have setup a RAID0 group in there with the 2 drives and then exited out. It goes into the BIOS so I save the settings.

Used the ASUS CD to boot from and created a driver disk on to the floppy drive.

Rebooted with Windows XP SP2 CD

Pressed F6 to load drivers and selected the 82801GR/GH RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH) drivers from the list.

I get past the licence bit and in the list of drives it shows 1 Disk with approx 286000 MB free (is that how it should look...I expected only about half that to show?)

I partition it into a 100000 and 186000 partitions and try to install Windows to the 100000 partition.

It formats it and then starts copying files from the floppy disk and then the CD and it gets to about 40% copying and then throws up a blue screen.

The last blue screen was IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and the STOP error was 0x0000000A (0xFBFFFFFF, 0x00000002, 0x000000001, 0x8081D235)


Anybody done this before and can help at all ? Wouldn't mind a link to the same drivers that everyone else has used if they didn't use the motherboard CD in case thats the problem.

Also has anyone done this using a SATA DVD drive on the 3rd Intel SATA port as well I'd like to know as I don't know if this may be causing the issue ?

Tearing my hair out so any help would be appreciated :)

Full spec in case it helps is :

Motherboard : Asus P5W DH Deluxe
CPU : Intel E6600 2.4Ghz
Heatsink : Scythe Ninja
Memory 4GB Geil Ultra DDR2 PC6400
Graphics : EVGA Superclocked 7950GX2
Hard Drives : 2x WD Raptor 150GB in RAID
Case : Antec P180 Black
PSU : Enermax Liberty 620W
DVD : Samsung SATA 16x DVD-RW
 
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Also tried moving the SATA DVD drive to one of the EZ-RAID ports and also removed 2 of the 4 1GB Geil sticks just in case it had an issue trying to address 4GB - still geting random blue screen during the file copying :(
 
Set your memory voltage to 2.1V. Update the BIOS would be a good idea too.

I assume the relevant SATA drives are "enabled" in the BIOS??? And that RAID is enabled??? Sounds like you have done everything right according to the usual proceedure for installing RAID. Does windows install without the SATA drivers??? This would remove/rule out the SATA issue.

Like the previous poster said run memtest86 (create a bootable CD with it on). You can download the iso image and simply burn it on a cd.

If you run memtest for 2hrs and it is ok (no errors) then it is probably ok.

Manually setting the memory settings where possible is another thing to do ie setting 4-4-4-12-2T in the bios etc. As sometimes selecting AUTO has led to problems on some motherboards.

HTH
Jules
 
What bios are you on? Should tell you when it posts.

If your not already, download the 1305 bios I think it is from the Asus website and flash that. I've got a similar setup to you and I already flashed to 1305 before I started installing Windows. Could just be that the RAM is not supported in the bios your running or something.
 
Woot - I've got it working finally.

Its something to do with the memory because the last thing I did was set the memory timings etc back to Auto as before I had them set to 800Mhz 4-4-4-12

I'll get it memtested as soon as Windows has finished installing. I hope its not a faulty stick.

Thanks for the replies guys.
 
Actually I had the same problem and discovered something interesting. If you create the RAID driver disc by using the ASUS Mobo disc in dos mode u get the generic IHC7 driver set which works fine with XP SP2 setup, however if you use another PC and create the driver disc from the windows programme it loads up the 820 chipset drivers which XP2 won't recognise during setup.
I created the drivers from dos and everything was fine, then used the ASUS update facility to update the raid drivers once xp was installed. Took me hours and hours to figure out LOL.
 
Sorry to jump on this thread but i have a question.....
I've got one sata disk that i want to use as my boot disk and install xp on. I'm not doing anything with raid for the mo but i'm unsure what drivers i need to use to install Xp at the F6 screen. unless i'm missing something can i just use the Intel ICH7R raid drivers that are on the CD? also do i use the 64bit ones if i'm running a E6600 cpu or the 32bit ones?

Thanks
 
If you are just installing 1 SATA drive then u need to connect it SATA port 1 (the one to the left of SATA ports 3 & 4 on the board). Then when u boot up set the bios settings in the IDE config to advanced IDE support. Disable the J Micron controler as u do not need it and it jus adds to your boot time. I don't think u need to do the F6 driver install bit for XP install as that only sets up RAID support. But if you do want raid in the future then its easier to add the driver support when installing windows first thing.

Load the ASUS support cd and then reboot from cd, you will be given a menu screen to create a floppy disc with the Raid ich7 drivers, ignore the J micron drivers (u aren't gonna use them unless u ever want to have an external sata disc). Create the floppy then reboot and install windows, inserting the floppy when u do the F6 option bit. Everything should then work fine
 
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