K8N Neo 2 Platinum, Raid and bios 1.4

Hi
Hope this info helps people. I bought a K8N NEO2 Platinum board late last year with a 3200 processor. Bios version on board at puschase was 1.3 Set board up using Stripe Raid on SATA 3 and 4 for bootable array. Everything fine and installed win XP Pro. Then set up a smaller Mirror array on SATA 1 and 2 to keep data on. Every thing fine so then upgraded BIOS to 1.4 and Drivers on live update and everything still ok. Board has been running fine but needed to format drives due to the usual things, loads of rubbish etc.
Formatted drives , came to set up Win XP on the Striped Array and here the problem started. Get through setting up the additional drivers for scsi devices, then set up gets to the starting windows bit and goes nowhere for about 20 minutes, finally you get a message telling you there are no drives attached.
No matter what you do you cannot get set up to recognise any raid array at all. You need to go back to bios version 1.3 and then everything ok again.
Hope this is not too much of a ramble.

Quote from: Karlos5000 on 17-February-05, 02:11:09
Did you mean MSI's site, for the new drivers?
Nope I meant DFI's site. Only cos I did a search on google for NF3 SATA driver, and that was the first that came up, downloaded it, ran the exe which made a floppy, and it worked first time.
Also...to the question above, I am running both Win XP Pro, and XP64 both on a RAID 0 array, installed form scratch, using the aforementioned sata disk

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