I'm going through it changing something each time.... This time around I'm pressing F6 at setup, using foxconn's raid driver on a floppy disk, selecting nvidia raid class? then nvidia storage controller?, then instead of going back and pressing s again, I'm just letting it stand with those two selected, after that windows setup said "your drive is not connected" LOL next time I'll try pressing "S" selecting the drivers, then s again untill it promts to use the driver from the floppy.... From there I'm going to let XP partition the drive, instead of the WD partition utility. before I do this, I've read that xp can't partition over 32gb? I'm think WTF... I got up at 8 am, it's now 4 am... so uhm... yeah this is lame, I'm with you on the sleep thing.. I've only got a couple options left then I have to try them all over with a different sata raid driver... and or/bios flash.. If THAT doesn't work I'm going to boot single Uata and then load the raid controller drivers after xp is loaded on the single Uata. It may be just a lame driver, or because I can't use two of the sata connectors, 0 and 1; they are blocked by a capacitor on the videocard. My drives are hooked up to sata 2 and 3. I was out cleaning up brush, started to snap a branch and it exloded right in my face, all sorts of crap hit me right in the eyes at like 5 million miles an hour, so looking at the screen is a major strain... Everything is against me getting this chip n drives n video card tested out before the "replace/refund" time period....