Gedrog

Aah I understand your problem better now. The Nforce chipset dont allow you to have 2 raids as boot partitions I had a similar problem and the only way I got around it was to install them individually without any other hard drives connected Because in the bios you set the hard disk priority and then the boot priority And this thing would almost always default to some weird setup and I could not get it to stabalise on 2 raids eventualy I opted for the 1 raid boot and on the NV sata controller I left them as normal single hard drives. And as yourself I disconnected all drives apart from the one that I was working on. Its not the 64 bit versions fault neither the drivers fault it is something to do with the way the Motherboard Bios operates. And if you are thinking of running a dualboot youll have to set the boot device 1st for the controller that holds the 64 bit version. And then edit the 64bit boot ini file. The 64 bit always wants to be the master and it wont allow the a modified 32 boot ini to control it I know that you dont run the dual boot but these were the problems I had with trying to get the dualboot to work. It is more a problem with the bios than the software itself. This problem have been comming along from the Nforce 3 and I see they still havent resolved it on Nforce 4. Happy hunting for th drivers ect. Ghost aka Driveimage7 is a good backup utility I love it works a treat. Good luck and I hope the 64bit is all that u was hoping for Not much change in the shape but underneath the bonnet luvely.

Aaah I understand your pridicament better now. Have you had a look at the Microsoft website for the systembuilder yet they will also have loads of details . Did you download the trial or did you oder a cd from them DL is very buggy I then ordered a cd from them. My home no play work PC have the 64 bit version installed as well with office 2003, visio pro 2003, Frontpage 2003 and project 2003 onenote 2003 with XP 64 bit here I used the dated A8V motherboard with 4400 dual-core with 4gig of ram and it works a treat. Very fast. No hassels so far. I build systems for family and friends and use volume lisencing. registered small system builder. Motherboards used so far Win XP64bit GA-K8NSNXP-939 very good easy driver suport from giga-byte got it working A8V poor suport for 64 bit got drivers from oem supliers. ie chip manufacturers Via and promise A8N SLI poor suport 64 bit used drivers from another manufacturer Managed to get it working stable. A8N32SLI good success so far runs a treat. AMD.com/edge had a list of all supliers and 64 bit drivers. But they have changed the website since I was last there there is sligtly better suport for 64 bit now but frustratingly there is a lot of manufacturers that doesnt suport it fully yet. HP is one of them and belkin lots of others advise they will suport it in future

Ok what I refer to is that when you dont change the order of boot devices and it reboots youll sometimes see that if the cd rom has a bootable Media on it it will automatically ask you. "press any key to boot from CD-rom" does this come up if you leave the boot order as default or does it automatically boot. And when you set the boot order to boot from sata does it come up with NTDLR missing. Please remember with the Nforce chipset there are varios menus that determine your booting order. Download the manual they have on the website and have another read through it. If you are going to use the sil driver select the r version for the the instalation its better. I see they have the newer drivers on their website at Giga-byte.com. http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Suppo...A-K8NXP-SLI.htm System specs Gaming PC CPU AMD dual core FX60 A8N32 SLI Deluxe 4X1gig Corsair PC3500LL Creative X-Fi fatality edition 2X74 gig westerd digital raptors boot raid 0 partition1 winxp32 part 2 win64bit 2X 400gig sata 2 western digital raptors 2X Seasonic 600w psu 2X XFX GeForce 7800GTX Extreme XXX Edition Vapochill lightspeed cpu Waterchill extreme for the rest with dangerden VGA water coolers

OK first of all which controller are u using on the motherboard Sil or the Nvidia raid controller. Are you trying to run a dual boot or single boot and are u using raid or base or mirror configuration. Furthermore when it reboots often than not it asks u press any key to boot from cd does this message come up. if so just ignore it. I overcame this problem by first installing 64 bit XP on a normal IDE drive then downloading the XP 64 bit drivers and created my driver disk with the 64 bit version instead of the 32 bit version. I found the Sil controller to be a better controller than the NV raid controller. I had a hard time setting up a multiboot with the 64bit version but do not recall the problem you have. Also make sure your bios boot settings are correct as there can be a setting wrong there that works ok with win 32. Also the silicon controller works better with single drive than the NVraid controller. I have the GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard and it loaded up a treat with the Sil controller. And I got the driver from the manufacturer of the sil component not the gigabyte website. GL-HF Here is the link to website for sil driver http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downlo...s=1&sataraid=0& Here is another guy with the same problem by the sound of it have a read. Different mobo same chipset http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/ind.../t8163.html Good site for all things 64 bit http://www.planetamd64.com/ as well as in the beginning days this was a good site. www.amd.com/edge However I have to admit I am using a full XP 64 bit product and not the trial version. there are some issues with the trial versions. I did have a few problems with the trial version myself.

Thanks dudes this makes it a lot clearer I think I will get a handbook on teaching myself the basics of cmd line any sugestions on a good book will be apreciated. And I played around a bit and its really fun to see something from few lines of code. See old dogs can be taught new tricks.

Thanks dude you have answered my questions

Thanks dude its really great and it works However I have one more question ping -n 3 127.0.0.1>nul is this an IP adress and if so will this have to change to reflect my own PC's IP adress. Cheers dude really apreciate the help

Thanks gunsmoking I apreciate it and it works but my question is I see a lot of things here is done from command line based so instead of asking people everytime how do I do this ect I would like to try it so if someone gives me a command line script such as yourself where do I go to type all the goodies in. I have tried your original script but when I open CMD it is set to default my settings and the no matter how I tried with each of your scripts it cept givving me error mesages is there a default directory I need to go to before I type all these commands in. I am not trying to humm around the same point but I am actually trying to teach myself the basics or is there something I can read to teach me basics of the cmd line. So I can stop asking all the annoying questions to guru's like yourself. And I see the file is very popular Apreciate the help Me Luke Skywalker ask Yoda jedimaster very nicely

Thanks gunsmoking but this doesnt help me I do not want to frustrate u but I still need to know do I run the script from cmd ie Start -> Run-> CMD may sound stupid but I am trying my best to learn something Apreciate your patience. Thanks

OK Gunsmoking where do I copy the code into do I go into cmd I am not yet fluent with thi command line thingys. so you have to take me step for step. ie got to start type in cmd then do this then copy and paste code. It may sound stupid but I really am a virgin to these thing.

Thanks Sory for the copy paste but I did not want to confuse the matter further. So I have to make the following directory tree D:\XPCD\I386\$OEM$\$$\system32 and copy the file WPA.DBL in here Looking at the comands at the top here I think it should be D:\XPCD\$OEM$\$$\system32 Nice gunsmoking but where do I do what u sugest in CMD promt. Sorry dont want to sound sarcastic but I am pretty new to all this and trying to teach myself new things all the time. Again thanks dudes for any help for this noob

I am trying to understand this I am not a super litirate in command line so hope someone can help in laymans terms. I have tried to copy this file into my new slipstreamed directory but I cant find this folder u are mentioning in the help $OEM$\$$\system32 I am trying to make a unattended setup disk for my home PC as I have to reinstall regularly. I like to try out various programs ect. Sorry about my spelling not english. Any help would be great removed ~ Alanoll