ok so here is the problem. my pc has been out of commission for a few months now, and i cannot remember what the catalyst to this problem was. however i will tell u about the problem as it is now.
but first my system is as follows:

mobo: gigabyte ga-8knxp
2 gigs ram
2 sata drives 70 gigs ea - connected to SATA0_sb @ SATA1_SB
vid card: radion 9800 xt (will stick my new one in once i get my comp up)
standard cd/dvd-r in IDE 2 (because i read earlier that if in IDE, it can cause clashes w/ raid)


Im just trying to boot up, re-install, what ever just to get my d**n comp back up. I don't care how i get there. just booting as is with not disks or cd's in my comp stops @ "verifying DMI pool" i had this probelm once before and just threw in my systems disk (floppy) and it took care of it and let me boot, but now something has corrupted on it and i get an ERROR. now im letting it to boot from cd (xp cd) and it starts the xp set up. but then hangs saying that it cannot find the drives. so i have now installed a new driver for raid, from Gigabyte and the installation for that went fine. and i figured that this WOULD solve the problem, but once finished it just displays the exact same screen saying that it cannot find any hard disk drives! could i be in the wrong sata ports???

im FUNCTIONALLY retarded when it comes to bios so if thats where the problem is, i cannot detect it.

any help would be greatly apreceated

thanks,

Mike I think I had a similar problem when I was building my (relatively) new computer. The motherboard manufacturer had not bothered to include an invaluable RAID manual with the board, which made it *censored* near impossible to set up until I downloaded said manual. For the on-board nVidia RAID drivers, the manual can likely be found by a google search of:

"nvidia" "raid" FILETYPE:pdf

Hope this gets you started.

-Ji do have the Manuel, however i could still not set up raid even following gigatypes DIRECTIONS. so i have given up and just started to format onto an IDE drive. once that is finished hopefully i can setup my sata's after the fact

MikeIf you are reinstalling just to get it up an running on an IDE drive have you considered removing the SATA's for now ? ?Did you go into the bios and select raid as a boot device?