XP boot error

first let me say that i am basically a n00b at building xeon systems. The PCI-X and extened atx were completely different than what im used to working with. small athlon systems. Well heres the beast: case: Lian-Li PC70 sound card: Soundblaster audigy2 platinum video editing card: DvStorm2 plus 3d card: Quadro4 980xgl IDE HDDS: 2 120gig western digital w/ 8mb cache 1 40gig western digital w/ 8mb cache SCSI HDDS: 2 73.4 gb ST373307LW SCSI Raid: Adaptec 2010S zcr u320 raid card (running r0) dvd-r: pioneer a05u cd-r: liteon 48x memory: 2 1024 mb ddr266 ECC Motherboard: x5da8 by supermicro CPU: Dual 2.8ghz xeons w/ 533fsb Card reader: Internal 6:1 card reader now, my first question is. I accidently got too many harddrives, theres obviously nothing i can do about it, so im wondering, should i keep the 40 and the 120? or 2 120s? I was going to run windows on the 40 alone and have it be a boot drive. Second, Windows refuses to install. It says, and i quote, "An unexpected error (522225) occured at line 5152 in d:\xpspi\base\boot\setup\setup.c" then it said something about raw disks, but how do i format to ntfs without xp? i cant find a boot disk that will format to ntfs. Third, in the bios, it shows that my cpus are only 1ghz instead of 2.8. hopefully someone can help me so i can use this :-D

yeah, haha ive tried everything to format and partition the harddrives, it must be something within my motherboard, because i cannot write to the disks!!!!!! for some reason it keeps giving me an error about writing to the harddrives, even though the bios recognizes them. So there MUST be a jumper or something that im missing that turns on/off boot disk write protect. Atleast thats my theory. I went into bios and write protect is turned off, so i guess its a jumper. Or maybe not. WHO KNOWS :) anyone else have a problem where they cant write to their harddrives though? or anyone have an x5da8 mainboard? thanx

1.You might have some CPU overheating/memory problems, check whether heatsinks are installed correctly,and replace the memory with another pair if possible. 2.Clear the CMOS>Locate JBT1 contact pads on your mobo end short it with a screwdriver (remove power cord first) 3.Locate jumper #39, move it to position 1-2(Auto FSB Selector) 4.Enter your bios Advanced>Advanced Processor Options>frequency Ratio Check what is the multiplier value specified there. (Post it here please) 5.Download little tool; put it on bootable CD/diskette, launch the main program :\DM.EXE /X ,IMPORTANT without the /X command argument the program will fail to identify any of your HD's. Edit:The prog is actually quantum disk manager,will work just fine with any HD's Hope I've manage to help you somehow :)

hey, thanx for taking the time to post! ok, here we go: first off, how about a bios update? would that help? 1: heres stats from my hardware monitor logic: cpu1: 34* C (how do i change it to f???) cpu2: 34* C System temp 38* C cpu fan 1: 4066 cpu fan 2: 5818 chassis fan 1: 2220 chassis fan 2: 2220 processor vcore: 1.456 3.3v standby: 3.376 3.3v vcc: 3.296 5v vcc: 4.999 12v vcc: 12.099 1.8v vcc: 1.808 -12v vcc: -12.045 cpu speed: 2.80 ghz frequency ratio: x 21 fast string operations : enabled compatable fpu code: disabled split lock operations: enabled hyper-threading technology: enabled I think my memory is good, its what they reccomended, and its two 1024meg sticks o corsair registered ecc ddr266 memory heres waht i have for Advanced chipset Control: Graphics Aperture: 128megabytes clock spectrum feature: disabled smart device monitoring: enabled ECC Config: ECC ECC error type: none serr signal control: none usb controllers: enabled legacy usb support: disabled local bus ide adapter: both um is that all that u wanted to know? let me know and ill paste more, im desperate for this thing to work I dont see why my computer would be overheated, i mean, i have the 2 intake fans in my pc-70 on highest, i installed the 2 optional fans in the back, i have the 2 other fans going in the back, i have 2 harddrive coolers for each of my scsis each with 2 fans and the cpus have fans too!!!! Even my psu has a fan thats sucking heat out of the computer! also the videocard ofcourse has a fan. thats too many fans!!! 2. what will clearing the cmos actually do? and as i asked before, should i update my bios? 3. I will look for the jumper for my fsb tonight, it said that 39 was by default on auto, so im guessing thats what its on, but u never know i suppose 4. 21 5. im going to use that little program right now THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wtf, Test Results: IDE Drive 3: BIOS is properly controlling this drive in LBA mode IDE Drive 4: BIOS is properly controlling this drive in LBA mode Standard Legacy controller - 1st IDE port - Master Device ATAPI model: pioneer dvd-rw dvr-105 serial: ------------ firmware: 1.00 1st port slave model: TDK cdrw4800b serial: ------------ firmware: s7d5 2nd port master ata model: wdc wd1200jb-00cra0 serial: **-************ firmware: 16.06v16 int 13 #: 80h then it gives the cylinders and everything, tell me and ill type that then 2nd drive is the same whats an interrupt 13h function 08h??? it says theres devices 80h - 82h and each has a capacity of approx 8414 MB! then theres interupt 13h function 48h and it has devices 80h-82h and 2 have a capacity of 120034MB while one has 146813 MB so theres 3 Int 13h devices 2 ata devices and 2 atapi devices could the int 13h be my scsi? if so why is there 3? thankyuo btw i used dlgchk from westerndigital for that

is it possible for a harddrive to be locked or something?

i just plain cannot format or partition, i tried using fdisk, but no dice

I'm not quite sure how good fdisk is for new HDD's, I'd rather use tools from XP cd. But since you have no system, maybe this can help:

i said yeah, haha about the (very futuristic) thing

yes i loaded drivers, and im calling supermicro right now, so if they answer my question, ill let u know