The install CD that comes with the board isn't crap! It is outdated and so many people go on never realizing this! The first three I spoke of or absolutely a must, PERIOD!!! Then get he latest LAN & Audio both downloads to upgrade ALL of the board like it ought to be for you. THEN go back and do the 'ME' and the 'Chipset' downloads. Find the VERY LATEST bios version that is 0135 and flash the board using the. Word to the wise! Soon as you get online, type in browser dg45id and go to the 'Support for this board at Microsoft' and go to drivers and downloads on the left of page that opens. BUT, if not, then direct it when prompted to do so.Ħ.) Make sure that when windows first loads and before the first reboot, UNPLUG THE FLOPPY DRIVE!) Why? Because you 'ENABLED' the Bios feature to boot first from the USB!! Remember? DUH!!ħ.) Kick back and enjoy your XP Raid setup!!! (Steps 3&4 can be done when you first start all of this, it doesn't matter.)ĥ.) I can assure you that it will pick up the floppy drive and raid drivers when it wants them.

(Save and reboot._ģ.) Have USB Floppy Drive plugged into USB port with floppy in it. NOW, if you want to load XP with raid on the DG45ID Motherboard, do as I said above!Ģ.) Create the raid you want with 'Ctrl I'. People make this just too dang hard and it is not! To use a USB Flash Drive, one first must master how to make one bootable! IF you have made a bootable USB drive, it will simply be picked up on boot OR your USB Floopy Drive will be too. Listen very carefully! Go into the bios and look under 'Boot' for the boot from USB. Will Windows 7 have the same problems installing on the RAID drives? I'd really appreciate any pointers people might have. There has to be a way to install XP on the DG45ID configured with RAID. I have a Sony USB floppy and using that (without 'slipstreaming' drivers into the CD) it will allow F6 to initially find the drivers but when it later tries to load the drivers the floppy cannot be found - even though it was just used! But in usbfloppy usbfloppy I see from the MicroSoft article ' A connected USB floppy disk drive does not work when you press F6 to install mass storage drivers during the Windows XP installation process' that the Sony USB floppy is not supported! Intel's site has several articles all pointing to effectively the same things - create a slipstream disk. But with the DG45ID board it's the blue screen of death as the installation gets to 'Starting Windows' after loading all its drivers. I have successfully created custom/slipstreamed XP Pro SP3 disks before AND used them. I know about slipstreaming and XP installation and adding drivers either manually or by nLite. However, there is no way on earth to install XP Pro. I have been able to set up a mirrored raid set (RAID 0) - no problem.

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