Windows XP problem

[vorgusa]

I have been having trouble setting up a new computer. I have an areca 1220 4x7200.10 hard drives at 320 GB running in raid 5. An AMD 4600+ Asus M2n-SLI Deluxe and an ATI 1900 GT video card all inside an Antec P180 case with a 600W power supply. the First problem I had was dealing with the floppy disk drive. I had tried to install windows but had constant problems with the floppy disk and installing the raid drivers and I noticed that the disk kept getting corrupted, so I tried using another floppy disk drive that I knew was working and got the same problem when I used it on my computer. The CD I used to burn it worked fine on other computer, so I figured the motherboard had problems with the Floppy disk drive, so I used Nlite to put the Raid drivers on a Windows XP disk and everything seemed to work fine, then I started getting files that said they were corrupted or missing and had error messages when I started up windows, then if I tried again it would work fine and get different errors. I tried installing windows again just to get the same or different problems all dealing with missing or corrupt files. I was thinking I would just replace the motherboard, but the areca or could be the problem. Any ideas??? Also the computer says it can not find the HDA bus when I try to install the HD audio drivers.
Any ideas?
Any known incompatibilities between hardware??
Any known problems with NLite.. it seems to work great I did not see any bad comments on it??

I have a SATA dvd drive I was thinking about trying to see if the problem is just with the IDE part of the motherboard, but of course I do not want to have a faulty motherboard.

 

[Swampster]

Try removing the array (from the BIOS setup), and unplugging all but one drive. Install Windows and get it basically happy. THEN go back into the BIOS setup routine for the RAID controller and set up the array with the already set-up drive as the master.