Asus onboard raid help

[BlindSeaman]

I am setting up a system with the asus A7V266-E mobo, an athlon 1800+ XP, and two IBM 40 gig harddrives. I moved the jumper to turn on raid and set up the raid thing fine, it is bootable and says it is a total of 80gigs which should be correct. The problem is that windows xp doesn't see it as a drive when it is looking for a palce to install so it says I have no harddrives. I tried fdisking it, but that didn't help. Are there any special drivers i'm supposed to load? I tried hitting f6 when it says to if you have any extra scsi or things like that, but it isn't able to find the raid. Any help would really be appreciated as I need to get this thing goin soon. Thanks.

 

[SemperFi]

Yes there is,

first you need to get the driver files for the raid off of the cd or download them and put them onto floppy. You also need to make sure there is a file called txtsetup.oem on the floppy with the drivers.

Boot the cdrom and when the blue screen appears you will see at the bottom of the screen to press f6 to install additional drivers. Press f6 be aware it only gives you a few seconds. It will proceed as usual and start loading drivers after a few minutes a screen will appear saying you chose to install additional drivers. Put the floppy in and it will read it and come back with a choice of drivers at least my ata 100 did. Select appropriate driver and setup should continue. If setup can't find them you either don't have the txtsetup.oem file on the floppy or the paths in the file are wrong. You can check them in notepad.

That should do it.

If you have anymore problems post back.

Semper Fi

 

[BlindSeaman]

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. Really appreciate it. One question though, where do I get txtsetup.oem from? Should it be on the cd?

 

[SemperFi]

Yea, I think it should be on the cd. It may not be in the same directory as the drivers though.

Example: D:\drivers\promise\xp

If it isn't in the xp folder look in the promise folder for it. I am thinking that is how it is for my A7V, although my memory isn't what it used to be. Actually as I think about it if your cd is like in my example probobly the best thing to do is copy all files and folders from inside the promise folder to the disk. this will preserve the folder structure this will ensure the paths in the .oem file are correct.

let me know how it goes.

I am leaning towards this board BTW. I have been considering the Dragon+ and MSI but I have been using asus for several years with few problems. I am watching for a sale on WD 30G to go with the one I already have for the raid. I already have 768M of DDR waiting patiently.

Semper Fi

 

[BlindSeaman]

Woohooo, it worked great. Damn that computers fast, too bad I can't just walk out of the office with it. The mobo seems to be working great, I would definetly reccomend it from the two days I have been using it.

 

[SemperFi]

Glad to hear it worked out great for you. I can hear that 768 meg of ddr in my parts box calling my name.

What do you think of the sound? One of the reasons I am looking at other boards is because of the onboard sound. I preffer the no audio boards or the onboard be just as good as my sblive.

Semper Fi

 

[BlindSeaman]

To tell ya the truth the guy I built it for wanted me to pick up a sb audigy for him. I'm sure the onboard would have been fine for him though. The funny thing is he doesn't even have any speakers yet, just head phones