Setup Raid and installing Windows Vista - P965 Neo-f

I hope someone can help....
I bought this motherboard along with all the other items required to build a new system as follows:
MSI P965 Neo-f motherboard (Bios v1.5)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2gb (2 x 1gb) OCZ PC-6400 (800) Memory
2 x 200gb Hitachi Hard Drives (to be run in Raid 0)
Sony/Nec Optiarc DVD-Writer
Liteon DVD-Rom
Hiper 530w PSU
Innovision 7300GT Graphics
After battling for two days trying to get a DVD-Rom to work through the Jmicro (PATA) IDE interface (no other item connected) within Vista, I've finally sussed it 
However, how do you get Raid 0 set up via the southbridge (ICH8)?
I have built many PC's previously using various Raid formations, and none have been anything like this motherboard to set up (its like going back to day one on building PC's).
The question is how? All other systems I have built allowed you to set SATA raid up in the Bios, then you would be presented with the setup utility whilst booting to allow you to set the Raid options.
However, this motherboard doesn't want to play ball. There is very limited options within the bios, and nothing which will allow you to set SATA raid other than being able to set either IDE or Raid (which makes diddly squat to anything). All other Bios's I have used had many other options to enable various SATA settings including setting which channels I would like to use for RAID (all i seem to be able to do is either Enable or Disable stuff). None of this appears in this bios, so how do I go about setting the bios to enable SATA Raid, so that I'm able to access the Raid Utility at boot time (i think its CTRL-i to access it, which doesn't work on this machine) and set my striped disks? People on this forum have also mentioned ACHI, but even that doesn't appear in the Bios anywhere (although I won't be using it).
Installing Vista is easy, but being microsoft its different. Theres no option for F6 anymore but you get the option to load drivers during the install. This no longer requires a floppy disk as per older versions as you are able to browse anything connected to your system (CD,DVD etc etc). The few times I have had to install Vista onto this machine I just pointed it to the MSI driver disk, the Intel folder and loaded the ICH8 Raid drivers and everything installed perfectly from there (am i doing this right?).
BUT STILL NO RAID OPTIONS 
Do I need to install the Intel Matrix Storage when I've installed Vista, as I've tried so many times without success (it keeps saying the system doesn't meet the requirements) that I've given up with that one but I don't no if I need it or not????
Hope someone can help and come up with an idiots guide on setting up Raid on this motherboard, as I need to get this computer to its owner on Monday......
Cheers

Quote from: rushal on 27-May-07, 06:42:57
Does anyone wanna buy a brand new P965 Neo-f (without raid?) 
Why would I want a board without raid?   
Add-on raid controllers vary in price.  This one is cheap: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219

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