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OH MY GOD SUCCESS!
It took four days of headaches (spread out, I wasn't sitting here 24/7) but It works!
the trick: I followed fernando's advice and made a floppy with the raid drivers from the 6.53 nvidia set, and somehow that was the only floppy I ever made that worked! and trust me I tried dozens of them. OKay so Richatard is a happy camper.
Maybe someday down the line I will attempt to create a slipstream disc with full unatended install, and that doesn't require a floppy, but for now my system works, and I am happy as hell.
GOODNIGHT!
and fernando... I want to have your babies.
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ugh
still nothing
goin on day four I believe.
I just want my computer to work
there is NO hardware problems
I have tried everything.
I don't know what to do
right now I am going to make 100% sure I have the newest bios, and then I am going to start over.
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Yes when I posted that I didn't want to slipstream anything because I had never gotten it to work right, but it seems that nlite has improved. Yes I do have two other hard drives, and I have taken them out to try this, the problem I am having is that not one time have I had the windows xp setup to read my floppies, no matter what! Here is what I have plugged in when I try the install
externally:
PS2 mouse
PS2 keyboard
one LCD
power
internally
ram
CPU
video card
dvd drive
two hard drives.
there is nothing wrong with my hardware, I have been running these two drives in raid for months now, I just decided to format and without changing one bios or raid controller option I put my xp disc in and started the process. when I turn off raid and my two hard drives show up I can install windows on either of them just fine, in fact I am running it off one of them now. But when I turn raid back on, and I try windows setup it will either
1. not read my floppy
2. install with your meathod but not work on first boot.
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OKay so here is the deal, I have now wasted 8 CD-r's on attemptiong this, and it just won't work for me! I have a DFI nforce4 sli-DR and I am using a pair of raptors in raid0 I am following these directions to a t and well... l,et me be mroe specific
I start with a clean install of windows (singlew drive)
I install a the nvidia 6.85 nforce driversm anbd the newest display drivers.
I install .net 2.0
I install nlite
I take my legti x sp2 RO disc and I copy its entire contents into an empty folder on the desktop
I start nlite and I select that folder I created with my xp in it, and I click next.
I select "integrate drivers" and " make bootable cd" and click next
on the ntegrate drivers folder I click "insert" and then "single driver"
I browse to this folder exactly "C:\NVIDIA\nForceWin2KXP\6.85\IDE\WinXP\legacy\" and I select the nvatabus.inf file
I ensure that the "textmode driver" is selected and that both of the options below are highlit (both of the nvidia required drivers are being integrated)
I click next and then yes to start the process, it seems to integrate everything and then it says FINISHED! and I click next
I create me bootable disc image, and I give it the volume name of XPPROSP2 (like my disc)
I open alcohol 120% and I brun the image to a new CD-r at 4x (to be sure)
I restart and let my computer boot from the floppy, with EVERYTHING unplugged, outside of the case I have the monitor, power, PS2 keyboard and PS2 mouse plugged in, and inside I have the cpu, ram, video card, two raptors in raid, and DVD burner plugged in, THATS IT!
I have my raid built perfectly fine, I have used it on this board before (before I lost the floppy I used and started this whole mess
So windows setup starts and detects my arrey, I make a partition on it, and format it, it installs the files, restarts into the next stage of setup and I enter all my information, it restarts again and this time displays the windows boot screen for about a half a second, I catch a slight glimpse of the BSOD, and it restarts. I've done this a DOZEN TIMES and tried a bunch oif different options, made 7 or 8 discs now, tried everything, different burning options, I even downloaded a pirated copy of XP and tried using the files from that, still produces the exact same problem. I am using the newest version of my bios from the dfi.com.tw site. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG AHHHH! this is SOOO beyond frustrating.
Going on day three I have been working on this.
Thanks in advanced for the help guys.
Oh by the way, I have tried a bunch of different versions for the raid drivers.
ugh I am going to bed.
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Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers
in nLite
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actually it was not a hardware problem. that was an attempt, even after switching the connecter ends, it didn't help, the only thing that worked were those older 6.53 drivers.
thanks!
P.S I feel like I abused this forums considering it has nothing to do with helping me install windows, its for nlite, oh well!