You know.....what the hell???

It would be nice if there was ANY information posted about the
following problem I had, which by the way took me all of 3 hours to
finally figure out.

Here's the scenario:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - latest BIOS and latest REV
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Corsair Twinx 3200 XLPT (1 gig total)
Western Digital twin Raptor SATA drives (would like to RAID)
Third Western Digital SATA drive 200 gig
NVidia 6600 GT
Blah blah blah blah

Anyway's, went to install XP Pro with the idea that my 2 Raptor's
would be setup as RAID 0. That worked fine...no problems at all. Had
XP up and running and life was good.
Here's where the shit hit the fan. I then added my third WD sata drive
and windows wouldn't boot. WTF?? bad cable? bad power connector?
Whatever.

So, the troubleshooting begins. It clearly wasn't a bad cable or bad
power connector. BIOS was detecting drive properly....RAID was working
great.

Decided to finally try installing XP with the third drive
present.....HELL NO. XP wouldn't install. Flat out sticks at the blue
screen that says "starting windows".

Ok, now what? Well, on a hope and a prayer I reinstalled XP with just
my RAID setup and then guess what? I loaded the updated Nvidia
platform drivers for the mobo chipset and I'm good to go.

I searched EVERYWHERE for any info on this issue and I can't find
shit. I don't get it. You would think there would be some FAQ,
Knowledge base item, anything on this.

Oh well, I'm happy now. Love the board, love the drives.

Later
Skenz