I don't use raid. I already installed windows 7 and was trying to insert slic 2.1into it. I dunno know what happened but it isn't working now. I can't get into the bios settings screen to change anything nor can I select which boot device to use. I don't think it has anything to do with the raid on the board. I think it gets stuck after it sees no raid and doesn't know what to do. Usually when I push the del key it'll go into the bios settings screen after it doesn't detect raid but for some reason it isn't doing anything which is why I can't get into the bios settings screen nor dos to update my bios that way. From my reading I should be able to make a recovery disk that'll update the bios right after turning on the system but it doesn't seem to be working.