How do I turn off RAID?

[plopooer]

I reset BIOS to daults. BIOS shows all RAID as Disabled but boot up shows RAID Utility prompt and then Windows XP finds "RAID Controller" hardware. How do I turn off RAID?
Thanks.

Award BIOS Type Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1013

 

[plopooer]

More info:

BIOS Properties
BIOS Type Award
BIOS Version 1013
Award BIOS Type Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1013
System BIOS Date 07/26/05
Video BIOS Date 02/16/08

BIOS Manufacturer
Company Name Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Product Information http://www.phoenix.com/en/products/default.htm
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[HappyBison]

ASUS A8N-SLI has two RAID controllers (SATA RAID based on Silicon Image, and PATA RAID based on Nvidia). You probably have to check to make sure both RAID features are disabled.

 

[mindless728]

i you use the silicon image RAID make sure you use the NV gigabit port as the silicon image RAID and the marvell gigabit port are on the pci bus

 

[apache_lives]

just install the drivers for it

 

[plopooer]

Thanks for your replies.

I don't want to use RAID - and it's not up and running anyway.

The BIOS and Windows prompts were probably just triggered when I reset the BIOS to defaults - and maybe RAID was set to Enabled for a few seconds. Anyway, I rebooted and checked every option in the BIOS and made sure that RAID was fully Disabled - and it was.

BUT... I still can't get rid of the BIOS and Windows prompts. 🙁

Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[sub mesa]

As you got two RAID controllers, you need to disable the Silicon Image controller in your BIOS as well, otherwise Windows will still find the Silicon Image RAID controller.

 

[ronny4453]

with an ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE:
disable the raid utility for faster startup

while starting up press" del" to show bios > then in the bios go to: advanced > onboard device config.> silicon sata controller > (disable)

mentioning there are no active sata connections !!

all drives with this mobo are still IDE connected !!