Help! IDE drivers not working?! K8N Neo2 Plat.

On the MS-7025 mobo BIOS 1.4, AMD 64 3500+, 1gb corsair 2-2-2-5, 2 PATA IDE drives and 2 SATA (RAID-1 array)
Can anyone tell me what they have listed under the 'IDE/ATA devices' tab in the Device Manager ??
I have (the SATA driver), then 'primary IDE controller' and 'secondary IDE controller'
I'm afraid that my IDE drivers have not installed correctly because I don't think that is supposed to be the name of the controllers.. isn't it supposed to say something like 'nForce3 P-ATA primary controller' or something more specific to the mobo/chipset ???
Besides when I try to update the drivers, 'have disk' and point it at the dir with the latest nVidia system IDE drivers, it gives me an error when installing them such as 'access denied' or 'can't install because the device is undetected'. Should I be doing this in Safe Mode ?
The specific driver I am trying to install is 'nForce 3 parallel ATA driver' in the nvata.inf (something like that) file (under nForce/IDE/WINXP)
Help !! I think the ATA controllers are hosed !
JR

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Originally posted by Supershanks
to be honest i've not heard of that many pps grumbling about speed reduction using XP default drivers, in fact can't remember where but someone had checked & found they where Nvidia originated drivers. Can't confirm that but can confirm run on both & not noticed any diff.
Did you install raid into your existing xp installation then. ?? Rather than F6 on install.
its certainly puzzling, buit i can't think why its
Yes.... I didn't need to do the F6 thing since I wasn't doing a fresh install of Win XP.. I just set up the RAID array in bios, booted into XP and installed the SATA drivers (forced them to install)
I tried to force the parallel ATA drivers to install, but when I do I get a device not detected error. I'll check the cabling and swap them out, since I am getting desparate, but I doubt that's the issue.. pretty sure I was already using ATA 133 cabling in my old setup.
JR

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