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had to manually force the drivers into the IDE mode from the CD rom
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That sounds odd. And I have your same mobo.
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I had to do was set to IDE mode in the BIOS, install XP Pro, then go into Device Manager, right-click each yellow device, and update each one's driver using the appropriate driver downloaded from Asus. I installed the ATA driver (not the RAID driver) for the WinXP O/S (e.g. not the Win2003 version).
I didn't have to force any driver IDE modes, not even sure how you did this. I didn't even have to install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility before doing the Promise drivers, and it still worked. Later on I
did apply the ICSIU (using the "AFTER" method) once I realized I needed it.
-clintfan