Striker

yeah i had already found that too, it seems to work just installed xp again using your 1st method. it has some other ide controllers installed, see pic and what happend with the human interface devices?? something not really ok? now going back to your second method. Are there any other nice hotfixes, patches, tweaks to include that you can recommend? thanks for the help so far

Acpi is enabled, (S1 /S3) Tried it first with F6 and a floppy disk. Copied nvatabus.inf to sataraid and did that .oem change. XP booted ok afterwards but showed ms drivers. Then I made a nlite bootdisc using the 2nd method, deleting the other ide drivers. But had the same results as above. I'm getting tired of this. Gonna try the first method and then I'm gonna give up and delete my raid array.. Attached are some shots I have no idea what that unknown device is. Btw my mb is an Asus a8n-e