The is a repost for two reasons the big one is I made a mistake trying to
reply to one of the replies to my original post and got the post flagged as
answered. Also I have done some more work on the problem and I am fairly
sure that Iâ??m doing something wrong or the RAID Drivers are the problem.
I have the following new computer hardware and canâ??t get Windows XP Pro x64
Edition installed using the 2 hard drives configured as RAID 0. Without
using the nVIDIA nForce4 RAID chipset controller, XP x64 installs smoothly on
the same 2 SATA hard drives and runs fine.
(1) Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000 Series case.
(2) Thermaltake Purge Power TWV500W W0057 Power supply.
(3) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
(4) ASUS A8N-E Motherboard with BIOS Version 1005.
(5) ASUS Video Graphics card EAX800XL/2DTV/256M/A
(6) 2 MB DDR PC3200 Memory, Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2PRO, configured as
Dual Channel.
(7) 2 Western Digital 160GB SATA Hard Drive Configured as RAID 0, Drive
WD SATA II P/N WD1600JS
(8)CD\DVD Drive, Plextor SATA P/N: PX-716SA/SW.
(9) Keyboard and Mouse are PS2 not USB.
(10) LCD Monitor.
Does any body have a RAID 0 configuration up and running with XP x64 and the
ASUS A8N-E motherboard? If you do, can you tell me what you are using for
RAID drivers and where you gone them.
The 32 Bit RAID drivers that are on the CD that came with the motherboard
work fine with Win XP Pro 32 Bit. But the 64 Bit Drives on the CD hangs the
installation program as soon as it reads them from the RAID Driver floppy
disk.
The 64 Bit RAID drivers that are with nVIDIAâ??s nForce4 chipset driver set
version 6.66 work a little better, but still cause the installation of XP x64
to fail. Computer does a hard reset during second reboot with no BSOD. Then
goes directly to the same diagnostic screen you get if you press F8 during a
normal Windows startup. If you try to startup Win XP x64 at that time in
Safe Mode it displays the normal list of drives and software being loaded
then halts and does a hard reset again.
I have the computer up and running with no problems, on Win XP Pro x64, but
with the same 2 hard drives NOT configured as a RAID drive set. Without
using the RAID controller the installation of XP x64 went smoothly and Iâ??ve
had no problem getting all of the other hardware drivers and software
installed and working. Computer is stable and even attempts to confuse the
OS and cause it to crash have only resulted in it telling me what I was doing
is a NO, NO or displaying a message stating what ever I was messing with was
having a problem and it would have to be shutdown and restarted.
I've tried all the version of RAID drives on the ASUS A8N-E download page.
Plus nVIDIA's latest, but I can't get through the XP x64 installation without
the computer crashing. Iâ??ve redownloaded all drivers I have tried at lest
twice from alternate sites and made new RAID Driver floppies each time with
no effect on the problem.
If anyone can tell me what Iâ??m doing wrong, please jump in.