Asus A8N32-SLI initial impression....WOW!

[Marios]

Well...im going to specify everthing that i have done.

With everthing in default in BIOS, i enabled the NVRAID, put the SATA 1 and SATA 2 as RAID ENABLE. I can see the HD Drives in the First Bios Menu. I Save and Exit. I go to the NVRAID BIOS (F10), configure the RAID0, F7 (Accept), and in the main menu of the NVRAID Bios...the option "[B] Set Boot" is grayed. ok... CTRL-X ...i exit. Im going to the Board Bios again, and put in the HARD DRIVES BOOT, i put NVIDIA STRIPE in first place. Save and Exit.

OK....everthing fine.

I put the WinXP SP2 CD, F8 to choose to boot from CD...F6 to install third part drivers. I put the Floppy.....i choose the 2 drivers, etc etc....when it copies all the files...reboot.....and.....and.....it shows a message saying, please insert a boot media...or something like that.

I already tried to put the jumpers in the Hard Drivers to Force it being in SATA1, i already put in SATA 3 and SATA 4, and SATA 1 and SATA 3...etc. I flashed the Bios with the 903 version.

And i find in Asus Forums another 2 people with the same problem.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs_view.a...nt=29&recc=288

http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs_view.a...nt=29&recc=288


I need to put this machine working as fast as possible.....i already didnt sleep nothing, trying everthing.....i need to sleep.....i need to rest...

Please help !!

Your discription on how to set a RAID was great.
I only write here the same things with pictures, so check them just in case you forgot something.
First of all remove any floppy disk, PCI cards and USB devices (ie. a USB key).
USB devices become first in boot order when the floppy is the first boot device and without a bootable operating system you get the error you said.
You may overcome this by pressing F8 at boot time to chose your boot device.

Enter BIOS MAIN - IDE configuration to enable SATA1 and SATA2, the nVidia RAID Function and SATA1 SATA2.


Select to open each hard disk at MAIN - IDE configuration


Set 32bit Data transfer to enabled


Check you memory clock. It should be 200MHz


Save restart press del and F10. You should see something like this


and this


Set your RAID as your first booting device.

Good luck.