K7t266 pro2 ru raid problems after bios update

i updated my bios to most resent ver. as of 12/20/03 and i was going to raid two 120 gig maxter ata 133 hdd. so i enable onboard raid in bios and save n exit. but it act's like there is no raid the scanning screen is not there nor the screen to access the raid setup. so i go back to the bios to verify the bios settings and raid is still enabled and to find out there is no fastrak 100 boot option there any more just cdrom floppy hdd-0 and disable thats it...any help out there? could use a little. need any more info let me know. oh! i rolled back my bios to ver. 3.0 to see if it would fix it ....nope :(

ok got it, flashed bios back to 3.7 and solved my problem woohoo!!

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Hi,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
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