915P Neo2 Hard drive incompatibility?

Greetings everyone,
I've been searching the forums for a while but haven't found any solutions. I'm trying to put together my new computer:
Intel 915p Neo2 LGA 775 platinum
P4 2.8
Corsair 512 DDR2
Quantum Fireball CX 3.5 series 15G (kinda old)
Maxtor 60G
At best, I can get the CMOS to recognize the hard drives as secondary master and slave and windows constantly fails to load. I've never had a problem like this in all the comps I've put together and none of my buddies are familiar with the board.
I've tried almost all cable and jumper combinations and the board still fails to recognize my hard drives as primary. We were able to get an old 5G hard drive to work even though it was a secondary, but only in safe mode. Is this a problem with RAID? I'm terribly unfamiliar with it. I would also not like to wipe my drives.
Has anyone had a similar problem? I would love to chat.
Best regards,
Scott

hi,
Are your HDDs  SATA or IDE? I guess they are IDE, and in which IDE will be assigned as secondary, while Primary belongs to SATA.
There is nothing to do with RAID. You still have the options in the BIOS to choose the first drive to boot regardless primary or secondary.
Next is to take Danny advice and go for a fresh WinXP installation.

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