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I have a machine that I have been building for some time. I just put the finishing touches on it yesterday and now, all I am having is problems. I have an ECS L7VTA 1.0 Motherboard, Athlon 2600+, 768MB DDR 333, GeForce FX5500 GPU, 40GB Maxtor primary drive, and two 160GB Samsung drives on the Promise FastTrak 100-Lite RAID card that is integrated on the motherboard. I had loaded XP Pro on the Maxtor drive and have been running it for some time now, also on XP SP2, with no problems. Yesterday when I installed the two Samsung drives, XP has started randomly freezing about every 15 to 20 seconds, stick for about 5 seconds, then resume. It repeats this no matter what I do. If I disable the RAID card, XP will run just fine. Next, I tryed loading XP on the RAID drives and running the OS from there, but 80% of the way through the install, I get a BSOD, and a message "Unknown Hard Error", and it will freeze. If I try to redo the install, XP will not recognize the RAID drives unless I delete and re-define the array. Anyone have any ideas?

I am considering that. I have started looking into new RAID cards. Any good recommendations? New to the RAID area and don't know a whole lot about the Brands. x) Or maybe I should just go with a new Motherboard?

I have tested both drives independently of eachother and both drives work, will format, will fdisk, and I can load an OS on them. The power supply is a 420W Antec. I had it tested, and seems to be fine. I have checked for a firmware update, but was unable to find one. I did download the newest driver and that did not work. I haven't tried new IDE cables, as the ones I am using I purchased when I got the drives Yesterday. BTW, thanks for the advice. I am beginning to wonder if the RAID card isn't defective.