Quote Originally Posted by safan80
on the ports you have enabled for RAID the drives will not be detected in the post screen, but once you go into the Nvraid bios they will be there. after the array is setup the array not the drives will show up in the nvbios screen not in the post screen. the only drives that show up in the POST screen are the drives not configured for raid.

it's F10 to get into the RAID util.
That's perfectly fine. I have done that and created the array. Otherwise the bootorder wouldn't show an existing array. The problem is that when i'm trying to install XP, it doesn't find any drives to install it on. Catch 22.