XP Professional and Raid Hard Drives

[Steve]

Hi,

Well I completed my build and configured my RAID 1
(Mirroring) drives, Made a disk to help XP figure out the
RAID setup and started my install.
Remember this is a NEW system.
I booted with XP in CD Drive and pressed F6 when asked.
Then S for specify floppy, Inserted floppy, pressed Enter,
pressed Enter again to tell XP I had nothing else to
install with a supplied MFG Disk.
Then The Windows XP License Agreement came up on the
screen and I paged down to read it and pressed F8 to Agree

Nothing happens! It just sits there with agreement on the
screen... The system is not hung up... I let it sit a
while and then hit escape and reboot just to get the same
results.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Mother board is ASUS A8V Delux and the 2 RAID Drives are
Western Digital 36.7 gig @ 10,000 rpm

Thanks
Steve

 

[SteveL]

OK let's see, you stated that you are using raid 1, which
controller card are you using? the intergraded one from
the MB? or are you using a seperate raid card? have you
updated the BIOS of your MB the latest is 1006 dated
06/18/04. Did you setup the raid within the Bios prior to
install? Your documentation should explain how to
accomplish this.


http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?
ModelName=A8V%20Deluxe&Type=All&SLanguage=en-us