Please help P35-DS3P + Vista 64 + RAID

[tupoolboy]

I have a new build and have run into Trouble with the RAID feature. I have a Gigabyte DS3P with Win Vista 64, Q6600 and 4 gig ram 1 OS Drive and 2 250Gig Drives, that I would like to make into RAID 0.

I did the initial install of Vista with the BIOS defaults. Since then I have been trying to get the RAID working. I can get Vista to boot with AHIC turned on in the BIOS, but when I turn on RAID it boots and as the green bar is going across (loading vista) it flashed to quick blue screen then reboots (endless cycle). I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers from both gigabyte and Intel. No luck. I have created the RAID in the gigabyte setup. I tried booting with or without the raided drives to see if this was hardware related and same result.
I tried doing a reinstall of vista but when it gets to the screen to load drivers (vista doesn?t have any of the x64 for my mobo built in) I can get a blue screen there as well. (this time when I load the drivers for the GSATA (jmicron))
Every thing else works great on this mobo (including overclocking, which is currently not on till I can fix this RAID issue)

Any thoughts of how I can get RAID working on this setup?

Thanks

 

[P4spooky]

You may want to look at THIS Microsoft article.

You can also try the install again with 2GB, install all the updates and then add the other 2GB memory.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[tupoolboy]

I found this article AHIC and RAID and it worked me through the issue. Apparently you can?t just switch between the 2 different setups as windows won?t understand and you will get caught in an endless reboot cycle. Guess you learn something new every day. Thanks for the reply. (it doesn?t explain the format issues but my RAID is not running and everything is good so ill cross that bridge the next time I need to format.)