Quote Originally Posted by shanems3 View Post
found a headache with this system.. so i have 4 250 Sata hdds, and 1 TB sata hdd and also a Sata DVD-rw.. perfect , i got 6 slots.. nope wrong, once you active raid, you lose the dvd-rw... so i cant install windows.. then i get an idea, hey i hve this IDE dvdrom , lets install from there.. wrong.. error during install.. seems to me like this dvdrom cant read a section on the disk, it fails to copy over , i installed windows from sata drive not 3 hours before on another hdd...

i am trying right now to make a pen drive install disk.. we will see how that goes.. man raid can be a pain in the ass..
You have to plug the SATA DVD in before the RAID HDDs, like into sata 1. Somehow it stops looking for drives as soon as it has found its raid, lol. Bios is still pretty buggy.

And remember, stay clear of the version 9 chipset drivers, they up the raid 0. Stick with the 8,6 from the Asus CD.