KR7A-Raid IDE configuration question

[DT4K]

I just got my KR7A-Raid tonight. It was a replacement for an Epox 8kha+ that I killed. The mobo was the only thing I changed on my system (Win XP Pro, Athlon XP 1700). I tried to set it up with my CD-ROM on IDE1, my CD-RW on IDE2, and my HDD on IDE3 (Raid port). I couldn't get it to work. I would get the Windows XP start screen, then I would get a blue screen that said Windows encountered a problem and was shutting down to avoid damaging my computer. It also said I may have a corrupted drive. If I rebooted from there, I would get the screen that gives you the choice of normal boot, safe mode, etc. No matter what I chose, I would get the same result. Blue screen. The drive was getting detected fine, when I went into the Highpoint BIOS, I can see the drive and I'm able to set it as the boot drive.

I finally gave up and put the HDD on IDE1 and my burner on IDE2. My CD-ROM is not currently connected. Without using the raid ports I had no problems at all getting up and running.

While typing this, it just occured to me that the raid drivers hadn't been installed yet since I couldn't load XP originally. Was this the problem, or should it matter? Does windows need the raid drivers even if I'm just using the raid ports as two more IDE's?

Thanks

 

[rIpTOr]

When you install a new motherboard Windows needs to be reinstalled.

 

[DT4K]

That may be a good idea, but it's not always a requirement. In this case, the chipset of the old board is the same as the new one (KT266A), so the only real difference as far as drivers is the new board has a raid controller and doesn't have onboard sound.
And it's working great now with the HDD on the regular IDE port. I didn't reinstall Windows.

Once I put the drive on the regular IDE, I had no problems at all. Very easy setup.

But what I want to know is:
Do the raid drivers have to be installed to boot from a hard drive on IDE3 even if it's just being used as another IDE port, not a raid setup?

If so, that would explain the problem I had trying to boot windows from IDE3 before the raid drivers were installed. I did update the bios to the latest official version so that shouldn't be an issue. And I will be doing a clean install of Windows next week when my WD 800JB gets here. It will replace my current 9GB drive that came out of a 3 year old Compaq.

Thanks for any tips.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: ShantiBut what I want to know is:
Do the raid drivers have to be installed to boot from a hard drive on IDE3 even if it's just being used as another IDE port, not a raid setup?

From my recent experience with my new KR7A-RAID I say yes you do need the drivers to be installed first. You can select boot from ATA133RAID but Windows doesn't recognize the drive as the IDE channel it is on is foreign.