**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi Ace-a-Rue,

Tried what you have suggested but I don't see any option to make my WD 640GB Non RAID HDD bootable. Am I doing some thing wrong here, do I need to do something else. I can go into Intel RAID BIOS but I see 4 options:

1. Create Volume 2. Delete Volume 3. Modify Volume and 4 Exit.

I haven't found any place to change the Bootable option for the Non RAID hdd.

Let me know if there is anything I can do.

thanks

i was off on the place to set the single bootable drive to boot from.

you want to use Sata ports 1-4 for your raid and single bootable drive...DVD ROM/writer should occupy Sata ports 5 or 6.

once you have Intel Raid enabled and then saved, re-enter the bios and click on "Advanced Bios Features"...from there, click on "Hard Disk Boot Priority"...your raid, your single bootable drive and any other drive should show up there.

now, put the single bootable drive to the top of the list...save and it should boot off that drive if you have Hard Drive as you first choice in the "Advanced Bios Features."

if you want to boot from your DVD drive first, look in the list under "Advanced Bios Features" for the actual name of the DVD writer....select that to be the first choice....so...that will force the bios to look to DVD drive before it looks to the single bootable drive for the boot command....also, don't forget to make Hard Disk or Hard Drive as your 2nd choice.

[sunnyoc]

Still not working. I am getting frustrated and I tried to do only the RAID 1 with 2 disks and tried to boot with OS cd and couldn't get the OS (XP) CD to install the OS. I get a blue screen of death when I tried to install the OS. I am at loss now and don't know what I can do. Please help me.

Thanks

i was off on the place to set the single bootable drive to boot from.

you want to use Sata ports 1-4 for your raid and single bootable drive...DVD ROM/writer should occupy Sata ports 5 or 6.

once you have Intel Raid enabled and then saved, re-enter the bios and click on "Advanced Bios Features"...from there, click on "Hard Disk Boot Priority"...your raid, your single bootable drive and any other drive should show up there.

now, put the single bootable drive to the top of the list...save and it should boot off that drive if you have Hard Drive as you first choice in the "Advanced Bios Features."

if you want to boot from your DVD drive first, look in the list under "Advanced Bios Features" for the actual name of the DVD writer....select that to be the first choice....so...that will force the bios to look to DVD drive before it looks to the single bootable drive for the boot command....also, don't forget to make Hard Disk or Hard Drive as your 2nd choice.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Still not working. I am getting frustrated and I tried to do only the RAID 1 with 2 disks and tried to boot with OS cd and couldn't get the OS (XP) CD to install the OS. I get a blue screen of death when I tried to install the OS. I am at loss now and don't know what I can do. Please help me.

Thanks

what official or beta bios are you using?

[sunnyoc]

Hi,

I am using BIOS 16. I am attaching some of the photos that I took with configuration details. I have no idea how to make the RAID 1 partition non bootable and once I have loaded the OS files in the WD 640GB it comes back to OS installation (if OS CD is inside the drive) or if not it gives me this message:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.

Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."

more images in the next mail.

thanks for any help

what official or beta bios are you using?

[sunnyoc]

more images