So I sit down to do the rebuild, and it turns out I have to install the Raid drivers via floppy drive, and floppy only during the XP install process. OK fair enough, expected this from when I built the machine few years ago.
I find an old floppy drive, cable, can't find a power cord, so I have to hack one out this computer, patch it with a plug, etc etc. Go to plug it in. The flat cable's pins don't line up. My mobo has pin 3 pulled, while the cable has pin 2 blocked. WTF.
Can't find the original cable i built it with. WTF.
grrrrr.......
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