Installing ITE 8212 Raid Controller?

Question

I have a custom pc with a 3.33ghz cpu & 2gb ddr ram. I am trying to install an ITE 8212 raid controller. I have installed the raid utility and driver. The card is securely in a pci slot. When booting with just the controller installed but with no drives hooked to it I will get a screen that shows the raid utility and 4 open slots, so everything seems fine. But when I try to boot with the drives connected to the controller I get the following message:

Checking NVRAM....Update OK.

Windows NT has not found enough extended memory. 7mb of extended memory is required to run windows NT. You may need to upgrade your computer or run a configuration program provided by the manufacturer.

Memory Map:
00000000-000A0000

I have reseated the memory, blew out any dust that may have been there, put different memory sticks in the PC (it does the same thing no matter what ram is in the pc). Anyone have any ideas of what to try next? I have searched all over the net and not found any ideas.

Forgot to mention that my OS is Windows Xp PRO sp2. I also have a ECS (Elitegroup Computers) P4M800PRO-M Motherboard.

I checked my bios and didn't see anything regarding the OS-Type or PnP. I tried increasing the size of the shared memory to 64mb from 32mb. But it still does the same thing. It won't finish booting or load windows when I have a drive conected to the raid controller.

Answer 1

Take out the 2GB of RAM, replace it with a single 512MB and try again, also in your BIOS, look for a setting for OS-Type, some board maps the memory differently when dealing with NT, also set PnP to no as NT4 doesnt support it.