P5N-E problems

[D3lirious]

After much swearing, I've put together all the parts I've just bought.

First of all, XP crashes during install if I have all 4gb installed, but not with 2gb. I'm running the 0401 BIOS.

Second, after setting up raid0 on two 74gb raptors, it installed OK but after restarting after installing nforce drivers, it froze during boot. The only way to continue was to remove the RAID and install XP again.

Any ideas?

 

[D3lirious]

oops, yep some specs might help

Corsair 620W
Asus P5N-E SLI
E6600
2 sets of: OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
2x74gb raptors (currently not in raid as this failed, but i'm about to try it again)
1x400gb seagate 7200.10

everything is at stock/auto in BIOS (0401).

At first, running all 4gb, the windows install would always fail when 'detecting devices' and removing 2gb stopped this from occuring. the RAID problem is a second problem i'm having. I set up raid0, used a floppy with the nforce RAID drivers and managed to install XP (MCE) fine. One of the first things I did was to install nforce network drivers from the CD to get internet working, but upon reboot, the xp splash screen would appear, followed by a black screen and nothing. So since then I've installed XP on one of the raptors (non RAID) and it seens to be running OK. I've run a 3Dmark once through.

So now I'm on 2gb ram and non raid, and all seems to be working. But not sure which problem I should try to solve first, or if they are related. I'm about to try RAID for a second time.

 

[D3lirious]

I'm expecting windows to report less that than 4gb, that much I know. But it shouldn't crash the installation! Reading around different forums, some people are having major issues with this board and certain memory configurations.

I will run 2gb for a while and see if any new BIOS updates appear. My RAID array appears to be OK this time, I must have done something odd when installing nforce drivers the first time.