Accessing RAID BIOS Setup on K7N2 Delta-ILSR

Dear All,
OK, OK, OK, so the message title does not make much sense... I wanted to include all the useful words.
I have a brand new motherboard, as above and I have put a drive onto IDE 3 (yes, you can do this - just have one drive on the SATA RAID, I have found that much out - it is described as a 0+1 RAID set) and I want to set it up to work!
All that happens at the moment, is that the SATA BIOS scans the channels for the RAID and does not find it. Then it goes on, saying that the BIOS is not installed.
I am supposed to press Ctrl-F to go into the BIOS setup, but when I do this, it ignores me - have tried pressing from just after the POST and I have tried resetting the BIOS, to no avail!
In the manual, it says that when you start the machine up first time, it will tell you to press Ctrl-F to go into the setup or Esc to continue. I cannot believe that you can ONLY setup the SATA once, at first startup?
If it is ONLY at first startup, then when is the definition of "first startup"? I have tried all things to reset the motherboard and they do not work:
1. Shutting down the machine
2. Removing the power supply connectors
3. Reset the BIOS w/J11
4. Removing the backup battery
5. Removing the backup battery and resetting the BIOS w/J11
6. Removing memory
7. Removing drive cables
8. Reflashing the BIOS
Anyone got any other ideas?
Thank you all, in advance.
Leni

Thanks for the help, guys...
The RAID setup was OK. I was advised to backup all the data on the drive before doing this, which I did. I just used "Auto" to include this drive as an ordinary drive on IDE 3. After, I had a look at the drive and nothing seemed to be different. I have used a RAID card (it was cheap) - HPT370 - as an ordinary IDE card and that was a bit simpler. The HPT370 just scans and finds the required drives and they are there.
Incidentally, I did look at the diag's on the top of the drive and I do not remember it saying anything about differences between Master and Single drives. No harm done(except losing 4 hours of MY LIFE)!
Incidentally, drunken_rice I am not using the RAID as a bootup drive. Although I did not lose any data myself, I would suggest that you backup your data before adding your drive into the RAID (I was advised of this before) - just in case!
Regards,
Leni

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