hell with Windows XP and Asus A8V Deluxe bios

[jpanzload]

I had a corrupt config.sys file in Windows, and during XP's repair process, somehow the settings for the RAID controller in BIOS got changed (I may have done it myself, because I had to change the boot sequence manually to get the SATA drivers to read off the floppy).

Anyway, I'm stuck with only my SATA C: showing up in XP. The other drives on IDE (two PATA HD on primary and a DVD-ROM on secondary) show up during boot, but not in XP.

Uggg. Any ideas?

Also, what version of the Asus bios would be best for me? No games or overclocking, just audio.

Thanks!

XP Pro
Athlon 3500+
A8V Deluxe
Seagate SATA 160gb
Biostar GeForce FX 5700
1 gb ram

 

[jpanzload]

Still stuck. Windows can't see anything on the IDE controllers. I'm not using anything on the RAID controllers, so I disabled it...

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Why don't you just format? Did everything read right before the corrupted file?

 

[jpanzload]

Just fixed this. I had Windows attempt to update the drivers on both controllers in the device manager, and the drives showed up. Weird.