illegalbrain

Hi mate, I did this a few days ago with my Gigabyte board, see my thread here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=101418 I went to the motherboard website, found the RAID drivers for my chipset, but you have to make sure you get the version that you can use on a setup floppy. Then, just extract the drivers to a folder somewhere and when you are making your disk in nLite select the folder in the Drivers section, then select TXT mode and choose the right RAID and AHCI drivers for your chipset... don't choose any other drivers except for the correct two for your chipset. That should work and if it doesn't you need someone else's help... good luck! Cheers.

I got it fixed, the problem was I was using the wrong driver pack and choosing drivers for more than one chipset... I got the actual floppy disk setup pack from the Gigabyte site and extracted them, directed nLite to the folder during driver integration and then made sure I only chose the AHCI and RAID drivers for the chipset (two files). Mind you, I ended up doing it with the IHC8R drivers and not the Jmicron ones, but I'm sure it would have worked with those as well.

Yep, at least it worked with my RAID drivers... I just got the startup floppy setup files from my motherboard's website, extracted them and then directed nLite to the folder during driver integration... just choose the right ones for your chipset, RAID and AHCI drivers, and select textmode and it should work. I did it successfully with the IHC8R chipset drivers, but stuffed it up with the Gigabyte (Jmicron) ones, as I think I chose a couple of different kinds.

I thought I finally had figured this out... I integrated the Gigabyte Jmicron Drivers into my XP installation disk and it recognized the drive, installed Windows and started to boot but git a BAD_POOL_CALLER error just before getting into Windows. I could boot into Safe Mode, and I'm assuming its related to the AHCI drivers. The problem is I don't have a floppy drive but I want to use AHCI on my HDD (Not RAID though). My motherboard is a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P, and it also has IHC8R SATA controller, but I couldn't seem to extract the .inf files from the installation package! I had a choice of TXT mode drivers from a floppy folder, PNP drivers from a drivers folder and some application driver as well... the first time I tried it with just the AHCI driver from the floppy folder, and selected the highest number (GBxxx), but it didn't recognize the HDD during installation, so I tried again and selected all the drivers for XP, and that's how I got to where I am now. I have read of other people doing this, so I know its possible, and I don't want to keep burning disks and installing XP with every possible combination, so I was wondering if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.