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Thank you for your contribution, I may will retry with chipset drivers added, for now I only tested with the raid drivers alone...

Somewhere in the bios options there should be an option called 'allow USB keyboard'. If this is enabled it should work! I even noticed this as a bug because USB keyboard was enabled during a silent instalation and it worked, but as I tested the raid package + silent install I had no keyboard anymore without having anything changed in BIOS...

I don't know your mainboard, but normally you should have the choice between SATA as Raid and SATA as non raid. When I define SATA as RAID, I have the choice to display or not the boot rom (so it is a real raid controller) and the HDDs are listet in the bootrom When I disable SATA as RAID my SATA HDD are listed like the PATA ones during drive recognition, and in the boot option for the hdds I see a 3M-xxxxx and 4M-xxxx drive, I think it is for 3rd Master and 4th Master... Unfortunately I found why it works well when disabling SATA as raid: XP does not need any additional driver to boot on SATA non Raid disk, don't ask me how it does...

No, what I wrote is wrong! Using single drives works!!! I forgot to turn off "configure SATA as RAID" in the BIOS! What could be the issue making me reboot before loading XP when SATA is configured as RAID? Has anyone an idea???

I've tried with the whole raid pack and only with the iastor-stuff, I always have the same results: file preparation works fine, also does installation, but after finishing installation during boot (ca 15sec) the computer reboots, and reboots, and reboots. This also occurs if my sata disks are single, exactly the same thing... I definitly didn't find a way to install XP with a hard disk / two hd in an array on ICH5R. I may will try another board, even if my sata controller would be defect... don't know...

I've tried with the whole raid pack and only with the iastor-stuff, I always have the same results: file preparation works fine, also does installation, but after finishing installation during boot (ca 15sec) the computer reboots, and reboots, and reboots. This also occurs if my sata disks are single, exactly the same thing... I definitly found no way to install XP with a hard disk / two hd in an array on ICH5R. I may will try another board, even if my sata controller would be defect... don't know...

I've already tried doing like that, but I always hat unexpected errors in txtsetup.oem or bluescreen (or both ) I finally won't get it work...

Ok but it doesn't help me Now I booted on an non raid disk with a running OS, and I looked around in the IAA Raid application: There I see that I have a lot of different versions, could this be my issue? ROM Version is 3.0.5.3003 Driver version is 3.0.5.2568 IAA Version is 3.5.2.2847 I will try to upgrade my BIOS with an older Intel Bootrom, it may help... I will let you know...

Hello, I'm trying to install my WinXP on an Asus P4P800Dlx with ICH5R. I have two Hitachi 7k250 Sata drives. The raid0 array was created successfuly. First I tried a normal installation with F6 button at beginning. There I had the problem that first the iastor.sys did load, but after having created the partitions and formatted them, during second copy of iastor.sys I had always an error message saying me Windows was unable to load this file!!! I first tried with a floppy, then with an USB floppy, with severals disks, nothing does... So I decided to integrate drivers on my unattended installation. I tried severals method found here and there, but nothing did, driver could not load or I became errors in oemsetup.txt, getting blue screens during installation or after first reboot (just befor the grafical installation) Yesterday I finally could test the great raid package! Very easy to have the CD modified!!! The whole installation process worked well!!! I've never been so far with all the other methods I tried!!! Unfortunately, the second reboot, after installation has finished succesfully, my computer reboots after 10-15sec loading XP... I'm unable to access OS. My BIOS is uptodate (1016) and I really don't know where it comes from. Do you have an idea what I can test/do? I also would apologize for my poor english. Thx! Edit: I just wanted to note an issu I experienced during install: I've got a logitech Desktop MX keybord which worked well for all things I first tried, but during installation with unattended and Raid package, the keyboard did not work on USB. I had to use PS2 pins. Is this a known bug?