Can't boot from RAID IDE

[Snuffaluffaguss]

Hi, thanks for looking, this is really starting to bug, I have a epox 8k5a2+ and Dvd, cdrw, 80 gb WD special Ed, and some other 40gb hardive. The motherboard supports 4 ide so I thought I would set each up as master, but the computer won't boot unless the 80gb with win xp pro installed on it, is on channels 1 or 2. Any ideas? I have messed with bios settings and nothing seems to work, thanks for the help.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Did you install the Highpoint Raid drivers?

Highpoint 3270/3272 driver

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

yeap, still nothing, it won't boot

 

[bunker]

Did you go into the BIOS and change the raid controller settings from raid to IDE(ATA)?

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

I couldn't find anything exactly like that, I was able to select a boot drive, but that didn't do anything either. any other ideas? thanks.

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: Snuffaluffaguss
I couldn't find anything exactly like that, I was able to select a boot drive, but that didn't do anything either. any other ideas? thanks.

Did you read your manual???? I'm reading it right now and there is an option (unless you've upgraded the bios and used the wrong one) to set the "High Point IDE Raid" to either Auto, Enabled, or Disabled. Change that setting until you get it to work.


*Edit--It's on page 4-15 of your manual.

 

[MrPALCO]

Be sure to press F6 during the install process.
I had the same problem with this board with Windows 2000. The hard drives on ide 3 and 4 were not recognized by Windows 2000 until I installed the HiPoint drivers during the install process. I do not run a RAID setup, but use the RAID connectors in order to run all my IDE devices on master.
My setup:
IDE 1 -- Plextor 20/10/40-12A --- Master
IDE 3 -- Maxtor 60 --- Master
IDE 4 -- IBM 40 --- Master

 

[Tripleshot]

Word of advice. Set up your OS on a seperate, non raid IDE drive. Raid 0 has no redundancy,and 1 does but not like it will keep running if you have a failure. Use the Raid for data,like games,music,photos,and apps you would like to run faster. A clean, un impaired OS on a seperate drive is the preferable scenerio. IMHO

 

[sechs]

Do you have RAID/SCSI in the boot order? If not, it will never boot to the RAID controller.