Quote Originally Posted by gtj View Post
Double check that your IDE HDD and the IDE DVD aren't both jumpered to master.

Use the Intel (black) SATA ports for your SATA devices.

Disable the Secondary SATA Controller (Marvell, blue).

Set the SATA mode to IDE.

Make sure the drives are in the correct boot order.

Install XP, no F6.
OMFG IT"S ALIVE !!! WOOHOOO. It was the damn master jumpers on the dvd drive alright. How the hell did it affect the whole thing? Care to explain. It works on the black ones but have yet to try the black sata ports.

Gonna try a clean reintall again w/o the RAID files and see how it goes.

Many many thks all for ur kind help. Next stop OCing

p.s. Might be getting an identical sata hd. Might experiment with RAID since i've never tried a RAID before. AFAIK, i will be limited to raid 1 and 0 due to my budget. What's the main diff of 0 and 1? Pros and cons ?