xp sata issues

[Swansen]

i just got parts for my pc i'm building. the specs are
2.2 AMD64 dual core
two 1 gb sticks of ram corsair
sata 74gb raptor
GA-K8N Ultra SLI gigabyte motherboard
nvidia eVGA 7600sli 256
win xp
http://www.gigabyte.co.jp/nippon/k8n-ultra-sli/photo_k8n_ultra_sli_big.jpg
(web address of mobo photo)
ok so all the parts are together everything seems to work fine but i can't seem to get the bois or window to reconize the hard drive. if you look at the photo you can see the 8 sata ports four are nvidia and are in the cmos, four are Silicon image whch is SATA II and has its own bios, needs exttra driver, also for the RAID, and it sees the hard drive when in raid setup. I followed the manuals instructions got the driver to floppy pressed f6 when asked for third party raid scii or something driver and it read the drivers fine exactly like the manual told me but it still doesn't notice the hard drive,thats for the Silicon Image, ie you can't get to the screen to patition the drive for ntfs,setup windows. But on the set the nvidia, i didn't need any driver, probably because its already there, the bios doesn't reconize it nor does the raid setup, but windows reconize the hard drive, but it won't get through the dos part of setting up windows xp, when it restarts for the next part of the installation it just starts over, never gets to the part to input the ID code.
yeah i know thats long but i have no clue any help would be nice thanks

[Paul Komski]

But on the set the nvidia, i didn't need any driver, probably because its already there, the bios doesn't reconize it nor does the raid setup, but windows reconize the hard drive,
Which Windows?? The installation CD or an already installed version of Windows running on another drive?

but it still doesn't notice the hard drive,thats for the Silicon Image,Either you need to disable the RAID function in the BIOS for that specific drive so it is not intended to be part of an array or you need to add it to an array or the drivers may be corrupt. If the latter try the latest drivers from the website. Also - leave the floppy in until prompted to remove it.