Mine was a nightmare installing as well. I was trying to install the system on a RAID 0 and I got the MB Drivers CD, made a floppy with the RAID drivers and for 2 straight hours couldn't figure out why the windows installer wouldn't detect my HD's. I would detect 1 if they weren't setup as a RAID but wouldn't find both. I finally realized that the 8-10 page section of the manual about RAID was for the PATA/IDE RAID controller and the 1/2 page blurb in the last 2 pages of book was for SATA RAID. Pain in my ass.