Windows setup crashes when trying to install SATA RAID drivers

[JungleMan1]

Trying to do a SATA RAID setup with Windows XP on my DFI Lanparty NF3 250Gb board.

Drives are recognized fine.
Hit F6 at setup, fine.
Asks for drivers, fine.

After I tell it to continue it goes through the rest of the drivers it needs to load, then says "Setup is starting Windows", stays there for about 10-15 seconds, then the system reboots without going to the copy files/select location section. Just crashes.

What is going on? I'm at wit's end.

Thanks.

 

[JungleMan1]

Anybody?

 

[KF]

"starting Windows" stresses a system pretty severely in itself. Did you do much testing before you tried to install XP? If not, get memtest off the web and burn it to a CD to test the memory.

 

[JungleMan1]

This system has worked and still does work fine for over a year, running Windows off of a regular old PATA drive. I only have problems when I try to install to a SATA RAID setup.

 

[JungleMan1]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[KF]

Maybe they have a better idea on things like this in the OS forum. If it is not a hardware problem, the only thing like it I know is that XP itself sometimes labels the HDs different than the way it was done in the setup program. When it comes time in the boot process to switch to the XP driver for the controller, it doesn't find it.

Try to make sure the SATA drive is the first drive the BIOS looks at to boot from, if there are any options like that. XP expects the boot loader and the boot directory to be on the first drive in its own ordering system.

When you reinstall XP, if it finds the version of XP already installed and displays it on the screen as C, you at least know valid XP files were copied to the HD.