Blank Screen (Raid/BIOS Problem?)

Have been running a stable setup for several months with the following components:
845 Ultra ARU (PIV 1.6A)
Gainward Geoforce III 128 MB
2 - Seagate Barracuda IV
Kingston 512MB DDR
Enermax EG365P-VE
Windows XP
All running at default values (i.e. no overclock). Very stable until this weekend when the screen went blank while in rest mode (no programs running). The system did not respond to anything other than the reset button.
The system boots normally until it attempts to start Windows XP (at that point producing the same blank screen no response/no warnings or error message setup). BIOS settings appear unchanged and the array appears to be functioning during the startup (sends back that message and correctly identifies the 2 disks). Attempting to repair the XP setup (using the XP install disk) does not recognize the array as a properly formatted device (it sees it just says the format is unknown). Booting on floppy with the array drivers allows a directory of a third disk that has always been installed on the secondary IDE controller (it's not bootable just a backup of old information) but does not recognize the format of the arrayed devices.
Thinking out loud:
Could a BIOS flash help?
Are there any other suggestions before I'm forced to have to reformat the array?

Wasn't able to come up with a bootable floppy with FDISK on it. Copied the data onto the small drive hanging off the onboard IDE controller and attempted to reformat the array.
However the XP format fails at various stages on the formatting. Checkdisk also fails in phase 4 (sometimes right away and other times after a period of time). The error messages are non descriptive (just XP was unable to complete the function) and after the failure the drive is not accessible until the next time the computer is turned on. Tried to delete and reinstall the array but that doesn't appear to do anything (the data is still there which surprised me). Is there a way to completely wipe out the array and start over?
Don't think it is a jumper issue (it worked for several months without a glitch) but will check. Can't see what would have happened to the driver but will try to reinstall the motherboard driver (I understand that has the RAID driver as well). Could try and reflash the BIOS?

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