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Right well we have eventually got there, thank goodness! First many thanks for some of the pointers especially cdob's link to http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=22092 after digging my way thru the many code boxes for the registry details, and comparing to what I had in the clean install, and finally remembering to copy across the relevant files to the driver's folder it all fired up Some other minor hitch's but the system is currently back up and running and just gathering the updates needed to bring it right back up to date ! The main problem seems to be that the "Repair" mode really only does the job for deleted or corrupted existing files, and despite MS, assurances that it would also handle M/B changes, it can only deal with certain aspects, and the one it really can't handle is USB changes, they don't seem to have figured in the Win2k3 repair process! Having the OS on a RAID 1 mirror has however been a godsend as it meant I could hold back one half of the pair until all is working as an additional backup just in case anything nasty happened! As it was nothing did, but it gives that confidence that you have a working copy as well as a full back up on another machine so it gives the confidence to play on one half knowing that the other half and a seperate backup exist if it all went pear shaped Once again many thanks to those who offered assistance and support, hope to return the assistance myself in the future!

Doesn't the hardware hive get updated in real-time, as it installs new H/W, rather than at close-down ? I didn't think any of the registry waited for close-down to save settings, but its not something I have ever tested out I must admit !

Ah great they look like very useful links, thanks very much ! The Acronis one especially, will have to sit down and have a good read. The Shift-F10 also worked whilst I was doing the clean install below, so that may come in handy as well at some point! Good news, a clean install of W2k3 has worked so it seems like I have a path forward at least, if I am unable to get the USB functions working under a Repair I can at least fall-back to a complete reinstall of the OS if necessary. But if any of the above sort the problem even better Yes, the old M/B used PS2 for the Kbd and Mouse, so at the moment it seems like the "Repair" option may not be repairing sufficient things, but the links above might be the cure. Another route might be to put the old M/B back in (providing the H/W fault on the SATA ports gets no worse) and install a USB Kbd/Mouse there and then repeat, that way it may not require to be "repaired" as such under the new M/B, merely the storage elements which seem to work. Right back to the Keyboard and do some more reading and tweaking it seems Thanks for the help so far ... I'll be back .....

Hi CDOB, lets see; OK, all the storage controllers seem happy: I'm using the Intel ICH10R in RAID mode and it is happily seeing the sata raid disks, reading and writing no problems, The Marvell 9128 controller is in IDE mode so that it can handle the Optical drive, with minimum fuss. On my first attempts it was in AHCI mode and lost the Optical drive, changing that has cured that problem. So hopefully these aspects are now resolved. I've switched now to a pair of USB (wireless) keyboard and Mouse, these are definitely USB so hopefully will eliminate any problem areas there! They seem to work quiet happily on a clean Win7 install - carried out as a test. Yes I do have and have now tried a clean Win7 install and that proceeded happily no problems. Can you elaborate on the "Boot, press shift-F10" not seen that one before, I assume when your saying "read 2003" files you mean can I see entries for Windows 2003 files ? Or what .... quick Google .... I think maybe your reffering to the CMD line processor available during Windows initialization, I'll give that a go but I suspect that I will have already lost access to the USB keboard at that point ? That link to the hotfix sounds interesting, I'll include that on the next attempt, however will it have been applied at the point of the PE running ? Or does it only get applied to the full Windows installation - I've no idea of the order of these things and when they apply, is there any good articles anywhere ? That might solve the problem, but as I can't "Agree the license" as the Kbd isn't functional I'm not sure that I can get to the point where it will have been applied OK well having made certain that the USB Kbd/Mouse work under a clean install of Win7, I'm going to try a clean install of W2k3, rather than the Repair and see if the problem is down to the Repair or whether its inherent to something in W2k3 install on this M/B. If that works Then I'll try the Hotfix above and see what gives. Thanks for the assistance so far, its nice to be able to bounce ideas around at least! Geoff

Thanks GL for the assistance so far at least, it is appreciated! Just tried out a Win7x32 install on the M/B, just to make sure that there wasn't some obscure H/W fault, but that has loaded fine, first try .... Anyway I'll have yet another go, in a few minutes, but this time with a minimal slipstream, no Hotfixes etc , just the required drivers for storage and those supplied on the disk, the only other thing is I have added the updated INF release. Still slightly confused by the Multi driver folder option, tried it with another folder and after selecting the folder it came up with a list of all the .INF's to choose all the required ones from, however this doesn't happen with the folder full of drivers from the Intel supplied disks it just specifies the "ALL" folder itself rather than the long list of INF files to choose from, which seems odd ? Anyway other suggestions welcome .... all report back which ever way it goes!

They are not, I guess they meant it's a setup for that update/hotfix. I didn't know if the setup for .Net has a KB number, so I googled these two, and they are hotfixes/updates, not the setup of .Net. Are the .NET files required during installation however ? I can see that shortly after installation I will be needing them, but I can live with the download then anyway, as the number of updates and fixes required will I suspect be more than I have found to date! The only reason for needing the Slipstreaming at present is to get over the lack of a Floppy drive that Win2k3 needs for the extra Drivers, but it seemed a good idea to load as many as possible at the time.

Right well all the relevant drivers appear to be present for the X58 chipset and the USB ports on the 82801R chip. These are on the supplied disk from Intel for the M/B; 2008s4el.inf ibexusb.inf ichausb.inf However in nLite when I select the ALL function it only appears to list the first one, I can't see (but I am no expert in this area at all!) how it knows to pickup the other two from the info in the first file ? E:\DX58SO2 Motherboard\Driver&Apps as supplied\Software\Drivers\Chipset_INF\All\2008s4el.inf,0 It says on the forum here and the documentation that you only need to select any one INF file in the folder concerned, so I assume it scans for others but doesn't list them in the .ini file ? I've also updated the BIOS on the M/B, as it was the original first release BIOS on the board as supplied, but nothing to suggest that any USB problems have been corrected in the readme etc. No difference in the situation however, I'm still stuck needing to "I Agree the Licence", but no working Keyboard or Mouse to make the selection ichausb.inf ibexusb.inf 2008s4el.inf LAST SESSION.INI

I didn't see the setup for .NET, just hotfixes (if the KB numbers are right. Ah when they are displayed in the HOTFIXES section in nLIte, they have (Setup) at the end of the description, so I am making an assumption that they were setting up .NET, but maybe not ...... ? Of course, if it doesn't work, change it to DISABLED or any other state it allows.[ Tried that as well and no joy The USB ports are driven from the X58 chipset so I'll see if I can locate the specific entries for them in the chipset drivers, to see if they make sense next I think.

Do you have a full backup? Which keyboard and mouse do you use? PS/2 or USB Can you boot a PE from USB? Or can you boot Windows 8 Developer from USB? I would boot a external operating system. And fix CriticalDeviceDatabase\PCI#VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104 And adjust mouse keyboard settings Next reboot should work. A repair installation is not required. Yes there is a full set of Backups I can recover too if required ! Have tried with a full USB Keyboard and it made no difference, but initially was using a PS2 Mouse and Keyboard into a what appears to be a genuine USB convertor. Well booting to a PE is still going to entail identifying all the required drivers I presumed ? If not I must be missing something in my understanding ? Not quite sure about that link to "enable-intel-ahci-under-xp" is about ? I don't seem to have that problem, the ICH10R drivers appear to be loading and running OK and the drives are being written to as well all under RAID on the Intel chips?

Thanks for response. I'm inclined now that I have it booting to go thru and remove the extra drivers, but hopefully this will be very much a single pass job, I hope not to have another M/B fail on me in the short term! Yes there is .NET setup infact there are two .NET setups (different sizes...) so have moved them to the top yes the USB BIOS setting is for Legacy. Right to continue, its so close now with luck I'll crack it tonight and have it backup and running ....... But any more suggestions are always welcome :-)

Hi, Hope some one can help with some suggestions please My old motherboard (Intel D975XBX2) has failed so a nice new Intel DX58S02 is to be the replacement. Hoping to continue using the SATA RAID array, without having to reinstall etc. I am using the Repair mode, after sorting out what appears to be all the drivers and MS updates etc. and slipstreaming them onto a DVD with the original 2003 R2 CD. The optical drive is on the Marvell 88SE9128 6G SATA ports, and the SATA harddrives are on the Intel ICH10R SATA ports. The ICH10R is in RAID mode and they all seem happy. The initial Setup phase copies the drivers etc. to the Windows installation folders for repair, the system then reboots from the harddisk happily, but is then unable to see the Optical drive to continue copying files, nor is the Keyboard and Mouse operational The Last Session file is hopefully attached. Your suggestions please - most likely something quite obvious but alluding me at the present Right an update: Solved the loss of visibility of the Optical drive - the BIOS setting was still on AHCI rather than IDE hence the problem - now all I need to resolve is the lack of USB connectivity to the Keyboard and Mouse... Any clues anybody ???? LAST SESSION.INI