EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra Setting up RAID???

[Questor]

I recently purchased two EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra (NForce 4 Ultra) motherboards for system upgrades. The boards are running well so far in every aspect except the RAID. Where in the name of Sam is the RAID BIOS? How do I access it?

I am a manual reader, so I have followed the EPoX instructions to the letter. F6 @ XP Pro install screen and the whole deal. Enabled RAID in system BIOS, enabled the two WD Raptor 10k 36GB (SATA I) for RAID and still nothing.

EPoX support site is useless. NVidia offers no help, though it is their chipset/RAID drivers.
The manual and every other random piece of information gathered across the Internet tells me the SATA II chipset is fully compatible with the SATA I situation (as well as others known to be running SATA I in RAID with NForce 4 Ultra boards in general).

I really like this board in every other way and do not want to send it to the hammer beaten graveyard, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Btw, the system recognizes the WD Raptors as removable drives as if they were USB jump drives or such and constantly displays the "safely remove hardware" icon in the SYSTRAY.

HELP!

Questor

 

[MDE]

Make sure you have RAID enabled for the SATA ports you have the Raptors hooked up to, then press F10 to enter the RAID BIOS while you boot and set up your stripe there.

Also, the Raptors ARE removable devices, but I wouldn't suggest hot-swapping your boot drive.

 

[Questor]

There is no RAID BIOS to F10 to. However, I did get the problem resolved.

I am so used to a RAID BIOS at boot that I didn't look for a Windows based RAID Utility..that and the fact the manual, EPoX site FAQ, and the PDF instructions ALL say to F10 into RAID BIOS during boot.

However, on my system, that does not exist, period. There is the NVIDIA RAID Utility in Windows (all programs list) that did the job even easier.

...and yes...not a good thing to hot-swap the boot drive!

Thanks

Questor

 

[MDE]

There is a RAID BIOS, at least on nForce3 there is...

 

[grooge]

You have to check if RAID is enabled for the SATA connector your Raptor are plugged on. Look at you manual section that show BIOS option and you should find something that allow to set each sata connector for RAID or normal IDE.