Building the new computer:<br /><br />Motherboard: Intel D945GNT (one of the new one with the 945G chipset)<br /><br />CPU: Intel P4 / 640 3.2GHz<br /><br />Memory: 512mb x 2 (1gb)<br /><br />HDD x 2: both are Maxtor 300gb SATA<br /><br />Bootable media: Plextor DVD RW/CD RW-ROM<br /><br />Heres my problem:<br /><br />Everything is together in the chassis, no problem entering bios setup, CPU, memory, and HDDs all show up correctly, RAID=enabled. In the bios it says the [primary] and [slave] drives are not connected. The CD-ROM should be the primary, no slave is installed. After exiting the bios setup, the system looks for the bootable media, the CD-ROM drive but doesnt find it. I get an error msg the media (CD_ROM) isnt found and to check the cable. <br /><br />I need to load whatever I need to load from whatever CD to be able to format and partition the HDDs*. I also need to load Intels RAID driver (Matrix Storage Tech), and Win XP. Cant do any of that unless the system can see the CD-ROM.<br /><br />What do I need to be doing??? <br /><br />Resources:<br /><br />- access to BIOS<br /><br />- Win XP CD<br /><br />- Intel Express Installer Driver CD<br /><br />- Intel Matrix Storage Technology / RAID driver on floppy (I dont have a floppy drive installed. The RAID driver should be available for downloading from Intels website.)<br /><br />* The idea is to format both HDDs with a 25gb partition up front that is RAID 1 enabled, a mirror of each other. This partition will hold Win XP and other DVR application s/w. The remaining 275gb partitions with be RAID 0 enabled, striping for the reading/writing data files. I need to get the Intel Matrix Storage driver installed to enable this RAID scenario before loading the Win XP software, since Win XP will be mirrored onto both HDDs.
