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GA-P35-DS3R/S3R Version 1 Intel ICH9R RAID problem

Asked by rootjd in Storage Technology, Windows XP Operating System, Computer Motherboards

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I currently run a P35-DS3R/S3R Version 1 motherboard.  
 
The rest of my hardware:
 
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair DDR2 XMS 2 800mhz
XP Pro sp2
2 160GB Hitachi SATA drives
8800GTS 640mb
 
My problems I've been having are using RAID. According to my user manual I have the P35 Express Chipset as well as the ICH9R SATA/RAID controller. I followed procedure on installing RAID on the two SATA drives. I am using RAID 1 and it configured successfully. Prior to setting these drives in RAID 1 I made a complete backup/clone (sector by sector) to another drive using Norton Ghost. Once I created that RAID for those two disks, I then copied everything back using Ghost to the disks set up in RAID. The name of that raid partition is JDr1 and that's where the data was copied. In bios, under Integrated Peripherals, I changed SATA RAID/AHCI Mode to RAID as manual says which only seems correct. Once I saved and loaded the OS I get a blue screen and it immediately restarts and loops over and over. It does this in both Normal and Safemode.
 
I then thought maybe I need to update the drives so I set SATA RAID/ACHI mode to disabled to boot into Windows. I went to the Gigabyte website to download the latest Intel drivers for the Intel SATA/RAID controller. Upon installing I get an error saying, "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software. Setup will now exit." I then thought that was really weird so proceeded to Intels site to download the drivers hoping this was a mistake. I found the drivers and got the same error. I then download the Intel® Chipset Identification Utility and then it shows me I don't have the P35 Express chipset but I have the Detected Chipset: Intel(R) G33 Express Chipset. For my other chipset components it gave me the following:
 
Memory Controller:
 Intel(R) 82G33 Memory Controller Hub  
 
I/O Controller:
 Failed to identify your ICH
 
Integrated Graphics:
 Not Detected or Disabled
 
No I/O Controller?!? I don't see how it can't recognize anything if it set up RAID  
just fine in the BIOS using Intel Matrix Storage Manager. The RAID even showed up in bios just fine. Any idea's what's going on?

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