Nvidia RAID in WinXP64

Hello All:
I have an MSI K8N SLI Platinum (7100 Rev 1.0) board.
It is running the 3.10 BIOS, using a 3800+ X2 'Manchester' rev E4 CPU and 2x1 GB of Geil 3-4-4-8 RAM.
Radeon 300 GPU (yeah, I was pinching pennies when I bought that one).
Seasonic 500 W PSU.
No OC - everything plane jane.
Cool 'n Quiet enabled
Presently I am running XP Pro SP2 and have the following drives:
2 x WDC WD740GD Raptor 74 ('SATA I') - non-raid on SATA 1&2, boots off SATA 1.
2 x WDC2500KS ('SATA II') on SATA 3&4 set up as a Nvidia Raid 0
2 x Seagate Cheetah .8 series 250 GB ('SATA II') on SATA 5&6 set up as SiI Raid 0
This rig runs fine, with very nice benchmarks for the Raid units (well north of 100 MB/s) and good reliability (no RAID disasters [yet]). I mostly use it for Photoshop.
I have tried running Photoshop under WinXP64 on another box (MSI 7207) with 2 x 1 GB RAM ans a 'Venice' 3500+ CPU and have seen nice increases in speed in many functions. However, this system does not have the Raid setup that the K8N SLI Pt has.
So I have been trying to get XP64 to install on the 7100 (K8N SLI Pt) machine.
I do the dance of two floppies with the NVidia RAID and SiI Raid drivers during install and set XP64 up on the second Raptor on SATA 2. (XP Pro is on the onther one on SATA 1).
When XP64 boots the machine hangs. I can boot into 'Safe Mode' but running MSCONFIG and disabling all the driver loading does not help - it still crashes when I boot XP64 in anything besides 'Safe Mode.'
I have tried an install w/o any of the RAID drivers and got a stable SP64 boot.
I ran MS Update and got all the relevant XP64 updates (my install disk is SP1, which is the latest SP for XP64).
I then installed the SiI drivers using Device Manager - that worked OK. Nice box, Photoshop CS2 ran well, the SiI RAID gave nice benchmarks, etc.
I then installed the Nvidia RAID drivers using Device Manager - dead box with the same issues as above.
I have also tried an install with the SiI RAID drivers only and also got a stable SP64 boot and a dead box when I installed the Nvidia RAID drivers using Device Manager.
All drivers are all the most recent release (no Betas) downloaded off the MSI site, with the Nvidia RAID set dated 8/1/2005.
Right now I'm blaming the Nvidia RAID drivers, but am open to suggestion.
Anybody had experience with XP64 on this setup?
Thanks,
ss

To clarify:
The rig in question (in the post above) is:
MSI K8N SLI Platinum (7100 Rev 1.0) board.
3.10 BIOS
CPU AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ 'Manchester' rev E4 CPU
2x1 GB of Geil 3-4-4-8 RAM dual channel DDR 400
Radeon 300 GPU
Seasonic 500 W PSU.
No OC - everything plane jane.
Cool 'n Quiet enabled
Stable operation under XP Pro SP2 with the drives set up as follows:
2 x WDC WD740GD Raptor 74 ('SATA I') - non-raid on SATA 1&2, boots off SATA 1.
2 x WDC2500KS ('SATA II') on SATA 3&4 set up as an Nvidia RAID 0
2 x Seagate Cheetah .8 series 250 GB ('SATA II') on SATA 5&6 set up as SiI RAID 0
This mobo uses an Nforce 4 SLI chipset. I believe the Neo 2 Pt uses an Nforce 3 chipset.
Yes, I am using the latest MSI-sourced drivers with the XP64 installs.
The question is: has anyone gotten Nforce 4 SLI chipset Nvidia RAID to work with XP64?
ss

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Earlier posts on this site, may be in the sata/raid sticky , that the only time a raid can be remade is when using the same controller. Doubt very much that Adaptec & Nvidia raid components are interchangable
i know to my cost on previous rigs that even changing a raid driver has caused the loss of data.
creating a new raid destroys any data on the target drives.
rebuild only applies to drives in an existing array created i would guess with the same controller.
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Quote from: dandut on 23-July-05, 07:50:41
If i disable raid, i still get the NV IDE BIOS screen, it just shows a message other than 'detecting array' with a flashing cursor and does exacly the same thing. It just wont get to the next stage.
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