Powercolor R9700 pro

[MelbAngel19]

Ive just got a new shiney Powercolor R9700 pro and a Epox 8K3A+ mobo.
And it doesn't boot.

What happens is:

I plug the card in, connect up the power connector and it boots ok, visuals
a-OK... but freezes after the onboard Highpoint RAID drive detection.
BIOS LED boot code is '86'.
But the manual aint much help, saying
86-92h = reserved

I put back in the old Gesuck2pro and it boots normally.

Whats going on? Anyone experiece this?
The card has enough power, running on a lightly used molex line with a 550W
PSU.
I NEED the raid as i have my two IDE hard drives on it... and boot off the
first, but its not even getting to the point of booting windows. (after RAID
drive detection comes the list of IRQ's in use THEN the windows boot)
As far as i remember im using a 2A25 bios flash and 2.31 highpoint drivers.

Trying to think of anything else important....
help please

 

[MelbAngel19]

I'm sorry...I'm half asleep and misread the forum name.
Didn't mean to post in hard drive issues.
I'll put it in the correct section now.

Melb_angel19