P7N Diamond, unable to access RAID Config during Boot

I've got a P7N Diamond motherboard, with 6 disks attached, one SSD (boot) and I recently installed 5 1.5TB disks as well. These I would like to run in RAID 5 mode. I've enabled RAID for those channels in the BIOS, but I am unable to access the RAID config that's supposed to be available during bootup. The system also has an ADAPTEC RAID 1430SA ROHS SINGLE PCI-E LP 4-PORT controller with two disks attached, could this be messing things up? (I DO get an option to access this RAID config, but it fails claiming too little free memory (!) (It's a system with 4GB installed)) In Windows 7, the 5 disks shows up in the NV Raid as "Free disks", but I'm not able to do anything with them except setting SMART info. In the Windows Disk management they don't show up at all.
So, anyone got any ideas on how to access the raid config (F10) during boot?
All suggestions appreciated
Thanks,
Zem

The error regarding "too little free memory" isn't related to system RAM but to bios ROM address space. As already stated, the Adaptec card is causing the conflict with the NV RAID controller bios. This is actually a very common issue when trying to run multiple disk controllers in a single system and isn't any fault of the mobo. There's only so much addressable space for BIOS to reside in.
You may be able to free up some address space by disabling the LAN Option (boot) ROM in CMOS and setting the JMicron controller to IDE instead of RAID. Even better would be to disable the JMicron controller entirely.
If, after doing so, the Adaptec controller is still not able to work with the NV controller in RAID mode, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.

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