Hello, everyone... I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem, I only know the basics. I have a Gaming Rig that had Gigabyte Motherboard and nVIDIA eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra. Well the card died and I sent it back to eVGA for repairs (2 Days Left on the Warrenty) However they couldn't repair it nor could they replace it because the card was discontinued. They sent me back a better card which would normally be a good thing however this card wasn't AGP they sent me back a eVGA GeForce 7800 GT, PCI-Express. So I had to buy a new Motheboard, I figured I would buy another Video Card and make it an SLI Rig.
Now the problem I'm having is finally after a month I set my computer back up again and I come across this issue that I have no Idea how to set my 2 Western Digital Raptor Drives, 74 GB each. Back with my old motherboard I would just hit F4 at Startup and make them striped (Combining them I think into 1 138 GB Partition instead of two seperate partitions) put in the Windows XP CD, Hit F6 and install the drives they gave me on a floppy disc. However LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert is much more complicated, I have no idea how to set it up in Bios and when I played around with it and made sure to Enable Raid and SATA 1 and 2. But it wouldn't let me go into the "F4 Mode" it would say I don't have the utility. Instead it tells me to hit F10, I set it up so its striped that way, hit F7 (Finish) However I don't set it to Boot, could that be my problem? I then put in the Windows CD and hit F6 but the Floppy that came in the box gives me an error but it keeps running so I figure I'd go with it and I installed Windows but once I reach the point where I need to reboot again it gives me an Invalid Boot Device Error. What happened?
Please I really need help with this, if anyone can give me a step by step on how to install these Harddrives I would really appreciate it.
Now the problem I'm having is finally after a month I set my computer back up again and I come across this issue that I have no Idea how to set my 2 Western Digital Raptor Drives, 74 GB each. Back with my old motherboard I would just hit F4 at Startup and make them striped (Combining them I think into 1 138 GB Partition instead of two seperate partitions) put in the Windows XP CD, Hit F6 and install the drives they gave me on a floppy disc. However LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert is much more complicated, I have no idea how to set it up in Bios and when I played around with it and made sure to Enable Raid and SATA 1 and 2. But it wouldn't let me go into the "F4 Mode" it would say I don't have the utility. Instead it tells me to hit F10, I set it up so its striped that way, hit F7 (Finish) However I don't set it to Boot, could that be my problem? I then put in the Windows CD and hit F6 but the Floppy that came in the box gives me an error but it keeps running so I figure I'd go with it and I installed Windows but once I reach the point where I need to reboot again it gives me an Invalid Boot Device Error. What happened?
Please I really need help with this, if anyone can give me a step by step on how to install these Harddrives I would really appreciate it.