Problem with new computer and raid controller

[Atvar]

I just built a brand new Athlon 64 based system but I am having some issues. The mother board is an MSI Neo 4 platinum and I installed a promise fast track serial ata pci raid controller so I could do raid 5. I didn't think the onboard could. Anyway, the raid detects at boot, windows install detects the raid and formats it, copies over files and then reboots. The computer displays "Disk Read Error press ctrl alt delete to restart" when it comes back up. I am going to update the bios on the board shortly, but I don't know what else to try. This is my first time installing windows to a raid on a pci controller. Any help would really come in handy. Thanks

 

[Atvar]

Just checked into it some more. Seems that the raid controller is set to bootable like it should be, but the problem is the bios also has to have it set as bootable as well. I have no idea how to do this :-/

 

[oznerol]

I have the MSI Neo4-F, which I think uses the same bios.

There's a setting - somewhere, IDE peripherals maybe. I'm not at the PC at the moment to check.

But if I recall, it's IDE peripherals - RAID something - and then you get a list of the various RAID formats, all are disabled. Enable the very first one.

 

[IamElectro]

You might have to set it to boot from SCSI to recognize the RAID card if there is no boot form RAID option.

 

[Atvar]

I'll have to try the boot from scsi option. I know that the first raid is enabled in bios.

 

[Atvar]

Ok. Update. Turns out that the problem is a limit on how large of a drive the bios will see. I took one of the drived off the raid controller and the computer works fine. Is there anyway to make this msi board recognize a larger raid size? I already tried upgrading the firmware but that didn't help. I didn't think there would be a limit like this.

 

[Atvar]

Does anyone have any other ideas?