Spinner

Just tried phoning them, only to find out they do not offer support for motherboards over the phone, at least in the UK! Tried their barebones PC line instead, but got cut off due to 'an unusually high volume of calls'. (Off-topic: I didn't realise they pronounced Asus A-soos. At least I've learnt something.)

It detects them when the onboard SATA controller is set to SATA rather than RAID or AHCI. When it's set to RAID they don't show in the BIOS but do show in the AMD RAID utility. Yes, I've looked there, but there isn't anything. Yeah, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for your help - it's been much more supportive than their responses. Not yet; I'm just dreading having to sit through all the obvious suggestions they make, as exemplified by the email below: Hopeless response - I've forwarded it to the manager to ask for better service. I may end up having to call them, however. Thanks, Spinner

I've now sent them an email; we'll see when or whether they actually reply! There was no floppy utility that I could see on the motherboard support CD. Thanks, Spinner

I've had another look at the RAID BIOS utility and can't see any reference to a format function, although I can select the stripe size, as I have done. My external USB floppy drive arrived today so I copied the contents of the \Drivers\Chipset\XP\RAID7xx folder to a floppy and tried installing with that. Still no luck; although the installation appeared to accept the driver, it still won't detect any hard drives. I can't see any SATA drivers on the motherboard driver CD. I keep wondering if there could be some misconfiguration of the RAID array in the first place, but I really can't see what it could be! I've posted this over on the Asus forums as well but no joy there yet. Thanks for your continued help.

No, it's a new build. The HDDs have been used before however, in my previous computer. I used the Secure Erase function of the BIOS RAID utility to wipe them clean. The RAID array shows up in the utility as being functional. Yes I'm using 0602. I think all the BIOS settings are correct. I found this RAID guide for a motherboard with a very similar chipset and I can't see any setting that I've missed. Correct, SATA ports 1 and 4. Thanks for your help!

1. When you got the TEXTMODE pop-up window while integrating the driver, which if the listed Controllers did you integrate?2. Are you sure, that you have an AMD RAID system? 1. There was only one in the package you pointed me to: "AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform". 2. As far as I know, the AMD RAID system is the only RAID controller available on the Asus M3A76-CM. OK, I've now tried running nLite in XP - same outcome, I'm afraid. Could there possibly be a RAID configuration error somewhere? The RAID 0 array is showing up after POSTing and it appears in the BIOS, so as far as I can tell it should be available. Thanks, Spinner

How do you know, that your problem is similar, although frag_68 didn't mention what really happened? He says that XP can't find the hard drives, just like me: EDIT: Just tried the drivers that you linked to - XP install still won't see the hard drives, I'm afraid.

Hi John, thanks for the welcome. I followed your recommendations last time I tried to slipstream the driver. Here's the Last Session.ini. Last_Session.ini Still not having any joy, however. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Sorry to jump on the bandwagon, but I'm having exactly the same problem with exactly the same motherboard. Can anyone shed any light on the problem? Thanks!