I found out the cd I had was bad so I got another XP cd and it works fine now. I installed the OS and the HD's in raid0 were working fine. I then installed a couple drivers for the mobo and found out I had to hook up my other IDE old 40 gig HD that had some drivers for my video card.
Hooked that up, went to boot up again and it gives me a "cannot find system32 file due to it not being there or corruption" and tells me to repair. put in the XP cd, go to repair and find out it is trying to run windows from the old HD. Unplug the old HD totally and try to run just the original SATA HD's in raid and it gives me the same error. Just tried to do a fresh install for the OS and its telling me I have no HD setup or it can't find it for some reason even though it sees the HD's at the F6 prompt in the raid setup.
Basically the SATA HD's in raid0 were working find until I tried to add another HD in slave mode. I'm at a loss of what to do now. I'm thinking just start all over again with the fresh install and the floppy SATA drivers at the beginning of setup.
Also my boot sequence is set to CD-ROM, SCSI, and disabled; in that order.
Heres my specs as well
AMD 2600xp+ @ 2.1ghz (stock)
A7N8X deluxe ver 2.0
2 x 256 pc2700 ram
Albatron Geforce 4 Ti4800 SE (stock)
2 x Seagate 120gig SATA 7200.7 8 mb cache