FIXED! K8N Plat. SLI: Odd problem Did Reformat Now Won't Post...:/

Heeeellloo MSI community! After all the madness I went through; I followed up on wevsspot's link (see his post) & read the bejeebus outta this thread here.
NOTE: The above link is for all NForce 3/4 Mobo owners w/ RAID problems attempting a reformat/upgrade using Window's XP and then suffering an UNENDING cycle of "quick-flash BSOD + auto reboot" assualts...!
In brief, the solution is:
1) Make a slip-streamed OS CD w/ Nvidia's Nforce 6.70 RAID drivers (or latest version) integrated using Nlite. (not sure about Autostreamer...)
-1) But before that, you must have the latest Bios flashed or these "new" Nvidia drivers won't be recognized during OS installation!
The link above is VERY informative & I would not be here yapping about if it wasn't for the sleuthing abilities of one wevsspot!
Cheers to Indigian & all who've taken the time to post!
Evening all. I usually don't come for help but I feel I've earned a second opinion after working on my PC for 3 days. After all I've done, this issue is really beginning to worry me. On Friday I was playing some SP BF2 and then my PC suddenly restarted. So I started up again & shut down normally and then I fired up CS: Source, after a few maps, another restart.
Hmm, then I uninstalled Nvidia's current graphics drivers and installed the previous version. Tried CS, same outcome. Well, I have reformated my PC before w/ success so I figured "its been several months" & now this issue surfaces so why not?
Well, I backed up and dived in. Had my original MSI Raid driver floppy ready but there was an error so I followed MSI's directions here & loaded up a new floppy and things went fine (I tried both versions- the version at that link & the most current Raid driver version, 5.53 via Nvidia's site. However, for both versions, the file "nvatabus.inf" in which MSI claims to be there is no where to be found). Now fasy-forward to the 1st Window's loading screen (loading bars...) after OS installation, I see a BSOD flash and then restart, and restart, etc...
Facts & POE attempts in no particular order:
-My Bios is the original, 3.1. Apart from the problems I've read here, I have never upgraded it being that I've never really had to.
-I've noticed that rite after OS installation, where I see my status of my Raid config., the version is still 4.81... & then, the damn restarting begins...
-I have tried switching serial ports from 3 & 4 to 1 & 2. Also disabling the unused ports in the Bios after switching. As I switched ports for the 1st time, I even deleted my Raid config. and built a new one.
-I have tried unpluging my pata cables, unpluging my USB devices, & unseating my memory as mentioned in a several threads I read here about seeing a BSOD just before Windows loads.
-Whenever I reformated, I had to remove one of my BFG cards and thus "flipping" over the SLI chip on the mobo. I learned that XP wouldn't load my SLI rig on its 1st run...
-I tried installing XP originally w/ SP1 or slipstreamed w/ SP2, no go.
-Inbetween these hairpulling attemps @ process of elimation, I tried just one of my Maxtors w/ no floppy help and it WORKED. So that points me to this being a Raid issue.
I apologise for the wall of text. I think I have tried all avenues to getting this odd problem fixed. Any advice or instructions would be great. Thanks for reading.

Cowbell,
During your chipset drivers update (or even possibly during the Windows OS install routine itself) you may have corrupted your original Raid Array. My suggestion would be to enter your Raid Setup Bios and delete the existing array the build one from scratch. If you have another computer, extract the RAID drivers from the original MSI setup CD that came with your motherboard and put them on a floppy. Or if you so choose you could use the RAID drivers from a later chipset driver pack. I'll leave that up to you. After you rebuild your RAID array, turn off computer, turn off power supply, remove power cord from power supply,remove m/b battery and move CMOS jumper pin to the clear position. Leave it like that for at least 10 minutes. Move CMOS jumper back to save position. Reinstall motherboard battery and connect power back to your power supply. Reboot and enter BIOS again. Re-enable the SATA or IDE ports you are using for your array, enable RAID in the BIOS. Exit, reboot and enter RAID Bios setup again, make sure your RAID array is present and make sure it is set as a bootable ARRAY. If everything looks good, reboot once more and enter BIOS. Make sure your RAID array is showing as a bootable device. Do the normal stuff such as making sure your optical drive is set as the first boot device etc.
Save, exit. If all goes well you will be prompted to press F6 to install 3rd party RAID drivers upon the initial Windows OS installation routine.
Good luck.

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