Motherboard/CPU upgrade and Raid/ XP

Hi
I am thinking of changing my existing 865pe fisr motherboard and P4 2.8 for an AMD64 .nforce4 board.
My existing system has 2*WDS120gb serial raid 0 striped drives. (Intel 82801ER controller)
Will any new motherboards see my existing raid config or will I have to back it all up (yuk)?
As I will be selling my existing mb/CPU/windowsXP on in an old case is Win 64 worth having.
Kev

Sorry it's a user-to-user forum so no msi technical support are allowed. However i do used the intel rig but using the different chipset.As mine using the via chipset and i've tried it but fails as the raid couldn't detect while amd now using the either Nvidia and Via chipset unless you're using the same chipset but now you're going to get the Nforce4 mobo so it's better for you to create the new raid array. Gd luck.

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