Originally posted by: jasonwllee
I've tried it in both the yellow and the purple, but to no avail. Is either better than the other if I'm not doing RAID?
Well.....yes....but let's just get one working first.
First......shut down ...unplug the power and plug the drive into one of the purple connectors.
Then power back on and hit del to get into the bios during the post. On the ide page in the bios, enable everything all the way down the line.
On the raid page, disable everything. Don't worry about what you see at this point. Hit F10 and yes and let is start to repost and turn it off.
Turn off the power supply and wait 20 seconds and turn it back on. Hit the power button and his del during the post again. Go into the boot order and you should see the HD listed in the hard drive boot order. I think that is on the second option down on the main page.
Make that hard drive the first in the boot order. It should actually be the only one listed.
Then use your windows xp sp2 install and see if it goes better.
If you get installed, then run the cd that came with it to load drivers.
We will go from there when you come back