Promise 376 RAID not working

I guess I too am a victim of the Live update BIOS flash Windows version
Please give any assistance/ ideas you have
Thank you in advance
KC
PS: sorry if this is long, it is my first post.
Here are the sequence of events and what I have tried so far: (I think these are all in the correct sequence of events, I have been trying everything I could think of and that I could find on the MSI and AMD Forums)
Computer was built 4/03, no problems til 1/15/04
·   WinXP home SP1 On IDE3 (C: RAID0 alone) on Promise controller, D: (2) Seagate SATA 150 on SER1&2 (RAID0) (see below for specs)
·   Memory is the same, PSU same, other hardware, same (see below for specs)
·   I have noticed that you almost always point to PSU first, but since I ran this board for 10 months, I can’t understand it. I did add the VGA card, but I also disconnected the ZIP and IDE2-disc2. Power supply V&A below. And it was working fine before I flashed the BIOS.
1.   1/14/04 installed MSI Geforce FX5200 (so I could have duel monitors and upgrade to LCD in the future. NO PROBLEMS til next day
2.   Flashed BIOS 1.8 with Windows Liveupdate3. upon reboot and after resetup BIOS values, Array only detects 1 SATA drive, other is “?/?” no IDE3 harddrive detected, no OS detected, tried deleting array and redefining. Would “define”, but then not there after reboot.
3.   moved IDE harddrive to IDE1. fasttrak.sys cause BSOD/ and “IRQ not less than or equal to” BSOD until I unconnected the SATA drives from the Promise controller. Then, System boots okay everything there & working. Deleted array and redefining. Would “define”, but then not there after reboot. NO JOY
4.   Reinstalled/ Repaired WinXP and re-updated.
5.   Reloaded Promise drivers from disk (v10019) NO JOY FOR PROMISE CONTROLLER
6.   Reflashed with 1.8 BIOS via Floppy, reloaded Current Promise Drivers (19) that came with the MB NO JOY
7.   Disconnected G-FX5200 and everything else except basics and RAID. No Joy
8.   Tried disabling everything I was not using and also cache’s in the BIOS, Still nothing.
9.   Flashed with Mod BIOS 1.8 (full RAID support) thought it might help the controller. Loaded Mod drivers (v10037)
a.   mod BIOS is very cool as it added some featues, but still NO JOY for the controller.
10.   Ran SEAtools (Seagate utility) on drive, extensive test, no electrical or mechanical problems (SEA tools would see SATA discs when booting from floppy) NO JOY
11.   Upon boot-up WP wanted to run Scan disc on the RAID0 drives. It found a whole pile of bad or partial sections of files. I know (NOW) that I should not have let it run while the RAID was not working correctly.
12.   Took drives to reseller. They checked them out and said they were fine. But when I reinstalled them, Fastrak saw them as an array, but also had the IDE3 drive shown (which was still connected to IDE1) (I had asked them to reformat them, but I don’t think they did.) When I deleted and redefined, it hangs at the Fastrack BIOS/ flashing “_”
13.   Ran memtest86 on both memory sticks at the same time, 16 passes (10 hr overnight) NO errors.
14.   I then bought a Promise SATA150 TX2 + controller (the same as the mod BIOS has) and installed it.
15.   FINALLY I could see my drives. SATA 1 was listed as RAW 74.5G, SATA 2 was listed as 149G (the size of the Array that was on them) and had the folders there, but all the files ect.. Were in “found 000” files. No problem as everything is backed-up.
16.   Tried to reformat drives from XP. It did reformat Drive SATA1 (now D:), but would not let me reformat SATA2 drive. Still saw it as 149G and would not let me correct size back.
17.   Reformatted both SATA1& 2 (E:) from SEATools, as 80G (74.5G +/-) Reconnected on drive to the Promise on board controller, still sits at the Fastrack BIOS screen and flashes. I even tried letting it run for an hour (I had read it had taken someone that long to have it initialize) but still no go… Reinstalled the drives on the PCI controller, and of course they are there.
That is where I am at now. NO JOY L
NOW WHAT.

Try this disconnect all drives except the sata drives even zips etc.
The only drives that should be hooked up when setting up a raid is the raid drives as other drives including zip drives will mess things up I know it caused me to have to do reinstall of OS because I forgot this rule and had a zip hooked up. I couldn't even boot from my SATA because of the zip drive.
I emailed promise support and they said to unhook the zip drive and I didn't even tell them I had one.
The only drives you want hooked up or the CD, 3.5 Floppy and the SATA drives.
Now pop in your XP disk and boot from it doing the Ctrl F setup array and F6 thing install Fast track 375 drivers.
If you want the SATA to be your boot drive than go ahead and install your OS. Remember that your Bios must have SCSI in the boot order to work if you want them to be boot drives.
After OS is installed it will again need the fast track or sata drive disk again as the first time it is only installing the drivers to memory.
If the SATA drives or not to be used as a Boot disk you still must install the Fast Track 375 drivers but I don't know how that is done as I have never set a computer up that way.

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