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Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID
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Karl Denninger wrote:
> Is there something that I can do (e.g. what registers/info would help if I
> wrote them down?) since it would have to literally be transcribed
> manually.....
>   

More of the same. Most likely your RAID BIOS wants to enter protected mode.
BTX normlly runs in vm86 mode.

Please do transcribe and post here so others may help to debug.
kib has real mode BTX code which hasn't gone in to the tree yet.

BMS