For all the hell you've gone through just to get it barely usable I'd seriously consider returning the board in exchange for something else if possible...

Quote Originally Posted by DataVampire View Post
just a wee update........

Im not very happy with this board to be honest guys
the raid on this board is very very ropey, i have managed to get it up and running once, then after i rebooted, it woudl reach the xp animated screen , the one wiht the bar, then it would jsut restart my pc, no wqay no how, i suspect its a bios update prob, as in its needs a descent one, i expected a lot more form nvidia tbh. anyhow i have managed to get it up and running in single ide mode, not what i wanted, but better than nothing i supose.
They should of released a working bios beofre releasing the board, another case of rushed the board out. my other prob i had , ie not being able to install xp on, or vista for that matter was solved. by reading a post in another forum, it turned out to be a setting in the bios, i had my keyboard support for bios, it apears you have to have it set to os, that solved that prob, now all i need is raid sorted, and oh yea need to overclock it.
thx for all the help guys