Here's the setup: Asus P4P800-SE, P4C-2.8, 1gb RAM, Raptor 740GD, Promise TX2 SATA/PATA card - all latest bioses.
I was never able to get my Raptor to quite work on my board's onboard SATA, so I just kept it and my 2500PB on the card. All has been well until the system got chuggy, forcing me to force reboot. Then it did what it did a month ago forever - refuse to recognize my Raptor.
When the HD is connected to the Promise card, it either (a) boots to a blank screen after the XP splash screen or (b) sends me to the safe mode menu - none of the safe mode options work; it stalls while loading agp440.sys every time.
Now, when I've got the Raptor hooked up to either the card or the on-board (with and without the card installed), it can't see my XP Pro install -
1. If I try the recovery console, when I type in "1" for my "C:\windows" install, it stalls there after I hit enter.
2. If I try to repair install, it hangs when "looking for previous windows installations".
At this point, even if wanted to do a clean reinstall, it seems I can't. Argh!
I was never able to get my Raptor to quite work on my board's onboard SATA, so I just kept it and my 2500PB on the card. All has been well until the system got chuggy, forcing me to force reboot. Then it did what it did a month ago forever - refuse to recognize my Raptor.
When the HD is connected to the Promise card, it either (a) boots to a blank screen after the XP splash screen or (b) sends me to the safe mode menu - none of the safe mode options work; it stalls while loading agp440.sys every time.
Now, when I've got the Raptor hooked up to either the card or the on-board (with and without the card installed), it can't see my XP Pro install -
1. If I try the recovery console, when I type in "1" for my "C:\windows" install, it stalls there after I hit enter.
2. If I try to repair install, it hangs when "looking for previous windows installations".
At this point, even if wanted to do a clean reinstall, it seems I can't. Argh!