can onyone help me set up my pc.

Im trying to set up my mew HD's and i can get the system to see them.

 

I'm going for a new build using vista 64 bit

 

Mobo Asus A8V delux

AMD dual core 4200

4gb ram

 

2x seagate Sata II 500gb drives

using RAID 1

 

I;ve set the BIOS to RAID etc but it still can't see the new drive, triad to oad vista and that didn't pick them up.i'ev even tried swetting the drive from 150 to 300 and back, i've even tried just to install one drive not in RAID and it didn't pick it up.

 

the system still picks up my old single SATA drive and runs vista and xp on it

not sure if youve already been down this road, but try reading section 3.2 of this http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/desktop/Barracuda%207200.11/100452348e.pdf

 

worth a shot.

tried that already

i would say its got to be the mobo settings then thats not right.

on my asus board there was two things i have to turn on to make the raid program work i will have a look

Just read this on the internet so can't take credit. May be of help.........or may not:

 

"Vista RC1 install does not have the AMD RAID drivers and therefore

cannot see anything but the individual drives. Check planetamd64.com for download

for the appropriate drivers, and hopefully RC1 will accept them."

Did it ask you about loading additional drivers with F6 (or similar) like XP does ?

Did it ask you about loading additional drivers with F6 (or similar) like XP does ?

 

That'll probably be it exactly. Whenever I have had problems with RAID (or SCSI etc.) it's been down to the additional drivers. IIRC, in the Vista setup it's easier cos you're not tied to a bloody floppy disk in drive A: like you are with XP and earlier.

 

Try getting hold of the correct RAID drivers mentioned above and adding them in. If you REALLY struggle you can make a customised Vista install CD with a program called nLite. This will allow you to add the drivers onto the CD and means it will automatically pick up your RAID controller.

I've got a bad feeling that this can't be done with 64bit Vista on this mobo -there are no appropriate drivers available. My confidence in other drivers working for Vista64 are very low. There are XP64 drivers, so that maybe the solution. I guess we may find out tonight ...

Well thanks to Andy, pc is up and running with XP 64bit, had a few probs and seemed to be down to a faulty SATA cable, Cheers Andy