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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thank you Madwand1, You have taken considersble timje and effort in helping me, for this I am greatful. Success, it is now booting into Windows. The reasons are unclear. I took all the information presented to me and did another SQARE 1, start from the begining. 2 Hard drives only-...
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    Thank You letdown427 Good Links ASUS's Reply To This Issue From:ASUS TSD To:computerfarmer@nexicom.net Date:2006-05-23 10:12:00 There still bootable even though the option is grayed out. David My Answer! If it did work I would not have this issue. Further to this, I can...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    ASUS's Reply To This Issue From:ASUS TSD To:computerfarmer@nexicom.net Date:2006-05-23 10:12:00 There still bootable even though the option is grayed out. David My Answer! If it did work I would not have this issue. Further to this, I can setup a mirror arrary. Bios...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thank You Madwand1, I am keeping the original drive as backup, Thanks for the advice. I have a working Asus A8N-VM CSM system. Running a single drive I have two new SATA HD's you want to use to in-place replace above C: with RAID 1 OS is XP-SP2 on new and not as new system(old) Old...
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    Nvdia's Responce to my problem Hello, This support website is designed to support NVIDIA direct sales products, such as the NVIDIA DualTV tuner card and the NVIDIA PureVideo DVD decoder, and also pre-sales questions about NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA is a market leader in graphics and...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thanks kenyee. Your view makes sense, as you can see bellow. UPDATE I called Western Digital Support today, to see if they would have some insite. After expaining my situation, I was moved up to the next level of support. Here it was explained to me that regular desktop hard drives are...
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    letdown427 which hard drives are you using?
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    UPDATE I called Western Digital Support today, to see if they would have some insite. After expaining my situation, I was moved up to the next level of support. Here it was explained to me that regular desktop hard drives are not ment for raid setups. This is due to fault tolerance...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    UPDATE During install of RAID 0 or RAID 1, at the first auto restart, the message Insert Boot Media comes up and that is where it stops. The Nvdia Raid is ID'd as the boot item in the Main Bios and raid is emabled with the drives being emabled as well. If the windows disk is left in the DVD...
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    Thanks letdown427 During install of RAID 0 or RAID 1, at the first auto restart, the message Insert Boot Media comes up and that is where it stops. The Nvdia Raid is ID'd as the boot item in the Main Bios and raid is emabled with the drives being emabled as well. If the windows disk is left...
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    Nvdia Raid 1 How Do I make it Bootable

    So far I have not been able to solve this issue. I have Contacted ASUS about this issue and am waiting a responce. I have seen this problem posted on the ASUS Forum, but no resolutions. Any input is welcome
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thanks grooge I have gone to Nvdia site, downloaded the newest drivers, I have downloaded the PDF file and read the entire thing. I can set it up as RAID 1, but not as a bootable drive. I have tried and installed xp, but when it goes for its first restat at installation, the system...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thank You kenyee I started with Bios #? and flashed with 0702 and when there was no change I flashed to 1001. I do not know how to format in the raid bios. I have tried rebuild array. I have tried delete array, start from the begining. I is as if the RAID BIOS already saw another array on or...
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    I have submitted this issue to ASUS. If I get a responce I will post it here. But I will not hold my breath Because if ASUS does respond it will be the first time they have responded to me.
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    Asus A8N-VM CSM Raid 1 - OS install needs Driver?

    Thanks again Madwand1. Thanks for the link. I was there once already but went back to it to read every line. It has a lot of detail but does not explain how to access this program. MediaShield from what I understand is installed with the drivers. The manual on the motherboard disk has...