Soyo Dragon onboard Raid malfunctioning... at wits end.

[TokenSDragon]

The FastTrak 100 Lite Controller onboard my new Dragon board has developed a very frustrating malfunction which at this point seems to be hardware related rather than software configuration... As I keep trying new ideas I post my progress here, yet now I fear I'm out of options. I'm still hoping someone out there knows a possible solution before I RMA this thing. Windows 2000 will not install (when boot from CD: error is "Not Harddrives Detected" when win98 upgraded and files are on drive error is "Inacessible_Boot_device", Windows 98 will install and detect the controller but will not function after installing controller drivers. The Raid drives boot (win98 is on it now) but the FastTrak utility doesn't even detect the controller after "attempting" to install drivers. This appears to be a resource conflict but I cannot decifer a method of altering the resources this onboard controller uses. There are no cards in the system besides the Gainward GeForce 3. I've tried everything short of a soldering iron. I've tried the board sitting outside the chassis in case it was a short circuit, I've tried upgrading the bios to the newest available. Everything works flawlessly except this darn controller. So thanks for your patience and thanks for any information you may have.

 

[Hessakia]

When installing Win2k, you have to hit like F8 or something when its on the bluescreen at the start of installation and put the floppy for the RAID controller in the drive so it will isntall the RAID drivers when its booting up--or else, it won't find your harddrive(s).

 

[TokenSDragon]

The F6 isn't the issue. I have the floppy created with the proper drivers (tried this with several disks in fact to ensure it wasn't a corrupt floppy) F6 works, asks for drivers, it loads the Win2k Promise FastTrak 100 Lite drivers... and then poof unrecoverable errors as I mentioned before. Inacessible Boot Device if loading files from the drive itself, or No Hard Drives Detected if isntalling from a CD. No driver has yet worked. I am totally at a loss.