P5W DH Dlx: Can't get past (Asus Mobo Make Dsk) screen

[19lbGordon]

In an effort to install four storage drives, I now cannot get the OS to startup. I am unable to advance beyond the "Welcome to Asus Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu" screen:

a) Make Intel ICH7 32 Bit RAID Driver Disk
b) Make Intel ICH7 64 Bit RAID Driver Disk
c) JMicron JMB36X 32/64bit RAID Driver
d) JMicron JMB36X 32/64bit RAID Driver
e) FreeDOS Command Prompt
Please Choose a~e:

I have a WD150 Raptor drive installed on the SATA1 connector as the main drive. I have been running Vista on it and at one point had three of the four drives initialized as single drives. The four WD500GB storage drives are on: SATA3, SATA4, EZ_RAID0, EZ-RAID1.

I power up, see the BIOS option screen, then a flash of the IMSM/Ctrl I screen (w/o pressing Ctrl I), next a "FreeDOS kernel version..." screen, finally landing on the "Asus Mobo Make Disk for DOS Menu" screen.

I have followed the instructions, inserted a floppy disk & created a floppy of the drivers (error free). But it still returns me to the "Asus Mobo Make Disk for DOS Menu" screen. Even if I remove any or all of the drives, it still sends me back to this screen.

Here's a glimpse at the BIOS:

Primary IDE Master: Pioneer DVD-RW DV
Primary IDE Slave: Not Detected
IDE Configuration -> [RAID] //have tried ACHI & Standard IDE

Boot -> Hard Disk Drives ->
1st Drive: RAID: WDC WD1500AAF
2nd Drive: RAID: Intel Storage
3rd Drive: RAID: External Disk

Been fighting with this for a while. Please assist if you can...

 

[GuyScharf]

That menu really threw me the first time I saw it. Took a few moments to realize that was the boot menu from the Asus CD!

Two solutions:

1) Remove the Asus CD from the CD drive and reboot.

2) Change the boot sequence in the BIOS so the hard disk is first and the CD/DVD drive is later.

Guy