I installed longhorn on the laptop without trouble. I now have been trying to install it on my desktop, but am having nothing but errors trying to do it. Most seem random, but I do remember seeing a 409 once or twice. I still have a few things to try, but just wanted to know if there are any issues with the Asus board or using the WinXP drivers for setup. Thanks for any help. I gonna go try again!

Jay

You wrote something about raid. The manufacturer of your raid controller ? I had no luck with my Silicon Image SATA-Raid controller.

Mine is a Promise Fast Trak. Its built into the board.

My SI is also bult in. Try installing the drivers in Win XP or Win 2K compatibility mode.

I wish I could do that, but I am trying to set the OS on that drive. So I am not able to do that (that I know of?). I gave up for now. I need to do a little more reading, besides, its technically my wifes computer now. I have been banished to the laptop due to the frequencies of reformatting!

If you are saying that you can not use compatibility mode, then there is a way. The compatibility mode is under other properties in properties.

Im saying that I cannot get it installed on the Raid Controller. I wanted to be able to run the OS running RAID 0, but I can never get to a full install. I just keep getting BSOD's. Like I said, the wife mainly uses that machine anyway, so I am probably better off leaving it alone until a beta comes out at least. She tends to give me an attitude from time to time when I "play" computer. The main reason I wanted to try it on that machine is because its got plenty of horsepower, ya know??

LOL i can understand your dilemma. Keep at it until the beta comes out then you'll have an excuse to use the wife's computer....

LOL, don't you still have xp on the main computer that you can use?

That's wierd my wife fells the same way. She gets upset if I get near here computer when I'm bored.