Installing XP Pro with Serial ATA hard drive

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icydragonclaw

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Chaintech ZNF3-250 Zenith
Athlon64 3000+
Gforce2 MX 32mb vid card
2x512 mb mushkin PC3200 level one 2-3-2 ram
Western Digital 37 gig 10000 rpm serial ata hard drive (raptor I think)
Only other card besides video card is card for cbox3

Windows does not detect my hard drive during install. I have formatted it by pushing F4 and entering raid setup. I'm pushing F6 and loading the nvidia storage driver, not to mention i tried the raid drivers as well. Still doesn't find my hd. Not sure what to do.. any help is appreciated.
 
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icydragonclaw

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I'm going to give this board one more go tomorrow probably, and maybe another after that, but then I think I'm done. I'll reset the CMOS before restarting. I cannot figure this thing out. I should say my mobo is znf3-250gb pro, not just znf3-250 like I said earlier. And this is kind of where the problem is, because not many people have this board and thus it lacks support. I've just had hell getting the thing as far as not crashing everytime during windows install. That is windows xp pro. Now it just doesn't see my hard drive, but that's nonsense because I'm loading the drivers that I got from the website, i can see my hd with info in my raid setup, and I can even do low level format in raid setup which I did. Someone said the drive needed to be formatted, someone else said it didn't, I tried anyways.. I don't want to return this mobo b/c it would be real neat if it worked. Brand new chipset. I don't want to wait for MSI's board, and I've already RMA'd the vid card. :( One thing worth mentioning is I don't have any raid options or serial ata in my bios. It's strange. I only have one hd, so I don't have a raid..maybe that's why. But I still have a serial ata drive.. oh well I'm lost
 
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