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1. Network drivers do not have a TXTSETUP.OEM file. Only Mass Storage Controller drivers have it. 2. Do what I have written and you will succeed. The only driver I didn't mention was the Network Controller driver for your Intel chipset computers. The both desktop pcs will need the Marvell Ethernet drivers and the Toshiba the Intel one you can get here.

@ Henrique-S: Here are the AHCI/RAID textmode drivers you will need to integrate into the Windows XP CD: 32bit Intel textmode driver v8.9.0.1023 WHQL This driver will work with all your computers except the Asus P5N-T Deluxe. When you get the textmode driver popup, you should choose all listed ICH9 and ICH10 SATA AHCI and RAID Controllers. For further details you may look here. 32bit nForce SATARAID drivers v10.3.0.46 (only for RAID systems) or 32bit nForce SATA_IDE driver v10.3.0.46 (only for AHCI systems) These drivers are suitable for your ASUS P5N-T Deluxe machine. Depending on the SATA Mode (AHCI or RAID) of your hdd(s) you may integrate the suitable driver. For further details you may look into this guide. And here are the chipset drivers you may additionally integrate as PnP drivers: Intel's chipset device "drivers" v9.1.1.1014 (WHQL) Just unzip and integrate the prepared small package as PnP driver (point at any INF file, it doesn't matter which one). NVIDIA's official nForce chipset driverpack 15.24 (WHQL) Unzip and integrate the different nForce chipset driver folders you will need (Ethernet, SMBus etc.). Choose the "multiple driver" option. It would be a good idea to create 2 different XP CD's with integrated drivers, one for the computers with an Intel chipset and the other for the NVIDIA chipset system. This way you can avoid the problem with any integrated "wrong" textmode driver. Good luck! Fernando

@ Bytor: By the way: As long as you don't install Windows XP onto a RAID device, you don't need to integrate any RAID driver into the OS CD. Once the OS is up, you can run the installer (SETUP.EXE) of the suitable nForce chipset driver package. You will find it within the first post of this thread. If you have any further question regarding the nForce SATARAID driver, please post it here. Best wishes! Fernando

@ Bytor: It seems, that you got some problems due to the change of the RAID settings and the installation of Windows XP onto different drives resp. RAID arrays without checking the "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" settings. According to what you have reported, you obviously have installed Windows XP 2 times onto your system, 1 onto the Raptor hdd or RAID array and recently additionally onto the single WD drive. I suspect, that you now have 2 boot sectors with 2 MBR's within your system. Since this is never a good idea, I wrote about the importance of the "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" BIOS settings. After any change of the hdd and RAID configuration you should have verified, that the hdd/RAID array, where your MBR was set, is still at the first place of the HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY settings. Otherwise you will get a new MBR within the hdd/RAID, which was just there by mischance. Another possible issue: Each change of the RAID settings (enabling/disabling the RAID Mode and switching the RAID Array from RAID0 to RAID1 or vice versa) has a big impact on the usually unreadable "track 0" of the affected hdd(s), especially if there is a boot sector on it. Since you obviously are able to boot into Windows XP off 1 single Raptor hdd set in non-RAID mode, you will not be able anymore to do it after having recreated the Raptor RAID array. You may try to solve the problem by erasing the MBR off the Raptor hdd and by reparing the "track 0" entries, but this will be difficult and dangerous for your current datas. The better way will be a low level format of both Raptor hdd's and a clean recreation of the array without enabling the boot option. The MBR of your non-RAID WD hdd should be the only one within your system. EDIT: Since your problem has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, you may search for further help somewhere else, were you probably will find a better support regarding the solution of your special RAID, MBR and Track 0 problems. Good luck! Fernando

I can set the new WD to be first priority, and boot into the new install of windows ok. I may have to reinstall that version and F6 the RAID drivers into it, unless there's a way to enable RAID w/o a new install.The necessity of doing a fresh install of the OS depends ona ) the SATA Mode situation during the previous OS installation (a fresh install is not necessary, if the RAID Mode was enabled) and b ) the place, where the OS has been previously installed (no fresh OS install is needed, if the OS has been installed outside the RAID). At first step you should enter the RAID BIOS Utility and check, if the RAID is shown as "healthy". As long as the BIOS does not detect the RAID correctly, you will not be able to get anything installed onto it.

A: Normally, it's set to HD/CD/Removable or HD/CD/Disabled.You misunderstood my question.The "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" is the order of the bootable hard disk drives and has nothing to do with the BIOS settings regarding the order of the bootable storage devices (CD/DVD>HDD>Floppy etc). Since you have more than 1 hard disk drive (each RAID array is shown as 1 hdd) within your system, you have to give an information to the BIOS, which one of them should be booted at first.

It is a known problem with the SP3 integration from within a non-XP environment by using nLite.Solution: The SP3 integration should be done either with nLite while running Windows XP or with another method (for example manually).

@ Airbus: Welcome at MSFN Forums and thank you for your report. You probably would have been able to take one of the already prepared drivers I have presented within my guide, but unfortunately I forgot to mention, that the ICH5R driver works with ICH6R Controllers too. I am sorry about that. As a consequence I have just updated my guide regarding this point. Thanks again! Fernando

Dino Nuhagic (nick name: Nuhi) has spent a lot of time to develop the tools nLite and vLite.I repeat: Only the private use of the tools is allowed. Any business use is against the law.

nLite is freeware, but it is not allowed to use it for business.Look here.

Yes, that is possible even by using nLite, but you should only integrate 1 driver of each Southbridge chipset vendor. That is not necessary regarding the textmode drivers. If it is your business to install Operating Systems onto different desktop computers or laptops, you should avoid nLite, because this tool may only be used for private purposes. This is is exactly the method you should prefer, if you are going to install Windows XP very often on different computers. The integration should be done by using DriverPacks BASE and not by using nLite.

@ xdmv and GreenDrazi: Welcome at MSFN Forums! You can enable several SATA Controllers while integrating the Intel textmode driver, but you should not integrate more than 1 driver of each sort and vendor. That means: 1 Intel textmode driver (the WHQL or modified one) and 1 Intel chipset "driver" package ("INF Update Utility") is enough. Otherwise you may get problems. Here are my ideas:1. Remove 2 GB RAM while trying to install Windows XP. 2. Integrate just the actual WHQL signed Intel textmode driver and enable the Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller, when you get the textmode driver integration popup window. 3. Read this. Good luck! Fernando

@ lama: Only the textmode drivers of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager are necessary for the detection of the hard disk drives. The Intel "INF Drivers" (= Intel chipset drivers) are not needed during the hdd detection part of the installation. Questions: 1. Which sort of Southbridge does your laptop have? 2. Which sort (Intel textmode or Intel chipset driver) and which version do you mean with 5.x and 7.x drivers and how did you install them?

@ Bytor: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Before I can give you any advice, I need some additional informations: 1. Before you installed Windows XP onto your single WD hdd, which OS were you running? 2. Do you have any additional OS installed? 3. On which hard disk drive is the boot sector (MBR)? 4. Is it possible, that you got more than 1 MBR within your system? 5. Which order did you set at the BIOS option "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY"? 6. Did you really create 2 RAID0 (=striped) arrays? I ask this, because you wrote about a "mirror", which would be a RAID1 array.

This is a good idea, but what would be the benefit of doing this? No, you can integrate any non-WHQL textmode driver into a Windows XP CD by using a tool like nLite, The function of the driver is not affected at all by the WHQL stamp.

The latter is correct.When I created the modified Intel textmode drivers (32/64bit), I didn't remove anything from the WHQL certified ones. I just added the missing DeviceID's and the associated Controller entries. So my modified drivers can be used with all available Intel ICH7-10 Southbridge chips (with and without "R" or "M").

@ all users of my guide (first post of this thread): Yesterday I found a new official version of Intel's Matrix Storage Manager. The package contains the brandnew and WHQL certified 32/64bit Intel textmode drivers v8.9.1023 dated 06/04/2009 and the appropriate version of Intel's Matrix Storage Manager Console. Since these new drivers and the Console are working fine with my own ICH9M AHCI and ICH10R RAID systems, I have updated my guide and added the links to these official drivers and to the new Intel Matrix Storage Manager Console application. Additionally I have created brandnew modded 32/64bit versions of these just released textmode drivers v8.9.0.1023. They now additionally will support even Intel ICH10 (without R or M) SATA AHCI Controllers. Any feedback is much appreciated. Have fun! Fernando

What sort of "original XP disc" are you using?It should be a complete XP CD (with a directory named "i386") and not a Recovery CD.

Welcome at MSFN Forums! Your issue may be caused by a bad CD/DVD media or by having burnt it with to much speed.

@ Bls: You are the first laptop user, from whom I have heard, that he had a much better performance with Vista than with Windows XP. Since I cannot help you more than I tried to do and since your mouse stuttering phenomenon has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, we should stop the discussion about your problem at this point. If you should ever find the reason for your XP issues, please let us/me know it. Regards Fernando

Vista works for you, but you don't know, if it would run even better in AHCI Mode. You are right: The fact, that your laptop is working without AHCI support, is not responsable for your mouse problems. Nevetheless you should try to get the option to enable AHCI. That can be caused by the mouse itself or the mouse settings, but the mouse behaviour may be influenced by other things too (special software with high CPU usage like Antivirus running in the background, wrong CPU voltage, unstable BIOS timing settings etc.).

@ Bls: Thanks for the screenshot, which really helps. The listed device named "Intel® 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C4" does not support AHCI. You got this device by integrating the Intel chipset device "drivers" or by running the installer of the "INF Update Utility". It has nothing to do with the drivers of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. That is why you got the message, that no compatible device has been detected, when you tried to run the installer of the Matrix Storage Manager. Since there is no "Intel ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller", the SATA hdd obviously is running in IDE Mode and not in AHCI Mode. Conclusion: 1. You will be able to get Windows XP installed and running without loading or integrating any driver. 2. Ask the vendor of your laptop for the option to enable the AHCI Mode of the SATA Controller. Since your system has an ICH7M chipset southbridge, it should fully support this SATA feature.

Some laptop manufacturers do not implement the BIOS option to disabe the "AHCI Mode".You can verify the SATA mode (AHCI or IDE) of your laptop by opening the XP Device Manager and looking into the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and - if present - the "SCSI and RAID Controllers" sections. If you are running your SATA hdd in "AHCI Mode", you should see a device named "Intel® ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller". The non-AHCI system just shows the "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller".