Need Help Please: Windows Setup Not Recognizing F6 for SATA Drive

[Guest]

I need help, I am going bald from pulling at my hair over this (at least that
is what I am telling myself).

ASUS P5B Deluxe Motherboard
Raid 5 setup through Intel Utility
Intel raid drivers on a floppy disk

When loading windows, I press F6 when the prompt appears on the screen but
nothing happens. It is as if it is not even recognizing key.

No screen messages, no dialog box, installation just fails when it can't
read HD
There is NO FLock key on my keyboard. It is a standard Dell keyboard

Please help, I need to get this up and running ASAP

 

[John John]

Maybe the keyboard is defective? Try another one to eliminate that
possibility.

John

 

[Guest]

Ahead of you there, I have tried 3 Keyboards and pressing F2 brings up the
recovery dialog box in setup.

I have deleted and recreated my RAID 5 drives.

 

[Guest]

Are you sure you're looking in the right place? This happens aftter the
first reboot in the installation process. That's the only place you can
press F6, unfortunately it's not present in the normal startup.

The other thing is that some of these Dell keyboards are actually Logitech
ones, with special 'trick' keys over the normal cluster, for Internet, etc.
I've found before that the function keys on these don't work correctly.