RAID 0 set-up difficulty

[Wildman1255]

Hi All,

I would very much appreciate some help - I'm coming to the end of my tether and starting to wish that I'd never bought this mobo.

I'm installing Win XP Pro SP2 onto a raid (0) array of WD Raptor 74GBs using the NF4 SLi controller. I'm pretty sure that the bios is set up right...

NVraid set to enabled.
1st and 2nd SATA Master enabled. (I'm using sockets 1&2 on the board).
Silicon SATA controller disabled.

I've also created the array which looks healthy under the f10 menu.

I boot from the CD-ROM to initialise the setup of Win XP SP2. Then press F6 to load in the chipset drivers that I created from the mobo installation disk.

Once both drivers have been loaded (RAID Class and nForce Storage Controller), XP loads in more files, followed by the License agreement screen, followed by the partition and format options screen. Everything alright so far...

XP then attempts to copy a file called idecoi.dll from the floppy or the CD, which it says it cannot do. Three options... Retry, skip and quit.

Retry brings no joy - still unable to copy it

Skip warns you that it might lead to an instable installation (which it does... I tried this and during the install it was unable to locate idecoi.dll. I had to manually point it at the floppy. Upon completion of install, it just went into a continuous boot cycle, crashing out every time the XP logo came up.)

Is anyone able to help me? I have searched high and low in the forums and have not turned up anything that relates to this problem...

Thanks in advance,

 

[Wildman1255]

I have had a scour over the net and I don't appear to be the first person who has experienced this. I was under the impression that this file was something from the XP installation disk not the RAID disk. How unreliable are floppy disks!!

 

[Wildman1255]

It is the first time I have attempted it really. Thought about the possibility many times in the past but always opted against. Anyway recently I made some system changes which resulted in a serious system crash, so if that sort of thing can happen on a basic setup I have opted to just take the risk and run a RAID 0. Further to the above, with this board could I run a RAID card, that would not bottleneck the cards would it?