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Welcome at MSFN Forums!Before we are discussing the reason for your BSOD's, do the following: 1. Run Vista and open the Device Manager. 2. Look into the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and "Storage Controllers" sections for the listed Controllers. 3. Post the names of the Controllers you found besides the "Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers". Further question: Which nForce IDE driver subfolder (SATARAID or SATA_IDE) did you integrate? This way we will be able to verify, if you have used the correct textmode driver. Regards Fernando

@ astrotouf: Welcome at MSFN Forum! You neither need to search nor to extract the suitable textmode driver for your Intel ICH8M chipset mainboard. Just follow johnhc's advice and go here. There you will find the driver and a guide how to integrate it. Good luck! Fernando

Which link do you mean?

I agree with you.Isn't it possible to run any HD diagnostic tool within a DOS environment disregarding any RAID/AHCI Controller?

No, I have never heard about such incompatibilities.What do you mean with "estool"? Samsungs hdd diagnostic tool is named "HUTIL" (look here). By the way: There is a brandnew version of the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" available. It hasn't yet been published by Intel, but you can get the actual v8.8.0.1009 dated 02.11.2009 from here. This new version contains WHQL certified AHCI/RAID drivers v8.8.0.1009 and is runnung fine with my ICH9R RAID system. EDIT: You probably will be able to reuse a source, where just the Intel textmode drivers are integrated and nothing else has been changed (no use of the "unattended install" option etc.), but this procedure is not recommended.Why don't you integrate everything at once into the clean source?

@ SilverArrow: You already gave the answer yourself. It is no problem to integrate the Intel SATA AHCI/RAID driver into a clean Windows XP/W2k3 CD. Just follow my guide you have linked to. Where is your problem? Are you missing a clean OS source?

Ok, then you can run the REG file.

I have seen it.Fine, that you succeeded at least. Don't run the REG file without having verified, that all said devices are using the nForce IDE drivers v6.99.It may be possible, that now all RAID devices (the NVIDA nForce RAID Controller and the RAIDed hdd's) are using the nForce RAID driver v10.3.0.42. This would not be optimal, but better than before. If you would run the REG file with this driver situation, you wouldn't be able to reboot into Windows XP, because all registry entries regarding the currently used nForce RAID driver named NVRD32.SYS would have been erased by the REG file.

All this happened, because the "wrong" driver named NVRD32.SYS is still within your system (you will certainly find it within the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder). What you need is the driver named NVRAID.SYS.Here is the procedure I recommend: 1. "Downgrade" the driver of the "NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller" again (as done previously). 2. After having done this, but before you reboot your computer, do the following Let the Device Manager show all devices (hit "View" > "Show hidden devices"). Check and make sure, that all shown devices named "NVIDIA nForce4 (Intel® Edition) Serial ATA Controller", "NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller" and "WCD WD10EAVS-00D7B1" are using the nForce IDE driver v6.99 (last digits of the shown driver version=699). Run the optional REG file you will find within my "NF4-5 Remix Pack". 3. Now you can reboot. Good luck! Fernando

Have you looked into the "SCSI and RAID Controllers" section too?i dont have there any 'SCSI and RAID Controllers' in Device Manager....should i have one..? If you don't have an "SCSI and RAID Controllers" section within the Device Manager, none of the Controllers is running in SCSI mode. This is not an issue. If you want to use the hot plugging feature, you should install the free tool named "HotSwap!" (get it here).

@ RyvBoy: Thanks for the pictures, which verify, that your nForce IDE devices are using different driver versions (10.3.0.42 and 6.99). This has been the reason for the yellow mark and might cause future system instabilities or even crashes. Maybe you got the nVRAID driver silently by Windows Update. I recommend to disable the automatic WU option and to manually "downgrade" the driver version of the NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller from within the Device Manager by pointing to the SATARAID subfolder of my "NF4-5 RemixPack". You have to force the installation by choosing the "Have Disk" option.

This is a wellknown behaviour of the Windows Setup routine. If it finds a WINNT.SIF file, it expects, that all needed drivers have been integrated into the CD/DVD. The F6 drivers will be loaded and accepted during the TEXTMODE part of the installation, but after the reboot Setup doesn't find them anymore.The combination of an "Unattended install" with the F6/floppy method only works, if you disable the "OEMPreinstall" option. I am not authorized to answer this question, but there are a lot of other methods to get an actual Service Pack installed.

Welcome at MSFN Forums! Here are some possible reasons:1. bad CD/DVD media 2. too high burning speed 3. no clean source You should give us some more informations about the name of the files, which could not been copied: always the same or different files? which extension (xxx.SYS)?

Have you looked into the "SCSI and RAID Controllers" section too?

@ RyvBoy: Thanks for the new picture of your Device Manager, which shows, that there is something wrong with one of your RAIDed hard disk drives. Please check the reason for the yellow mark by doing a right click onto the device. Furthermore it would be a good idea to find out the driver version (only the last digits are interesting), which are used by devices named "NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller", both "WCD WD10EAVS-00D7B1" and both "NVIDIA nForce4 Intel® Edition Serial ATA Controller" (right click onto them > "Properties" > "Driver" > "Driver version").

Hopefully this is the download link to the suitable Bluetooth driver for your system.By the way: You will probably find all needed drivers within the 6th post of this site.

Ok, it was a pleasure for me to help you.Let me know, when you have finished your work. Greetings! Fernando

As next step download the Intel graphics driver, which will additionally install the HDMI audio driver. You can get the latest driver from here. EDIT: If you want to search for the other drivers yourself, do the following: 1. Open this site. 2. Copy and paste the 4 digits/letters of the Vendor into the "Vendor Search" window and hit the "Search" button > you will get the name of the vendor. 3. Copy and paste the 4 digits/letters of the Device into the "Device Search" window and hit the "Search" button > you will get the name of the device. 4. Search for the latest XP driver for the device at the homepage of the vendor.

That is the Marvell "Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller".You will get the actual driver here.

No, the linked Intel chipset driverpack will work with all actual desktop computers and laptops, which have an Intel ICH7-10 chipset.After having installed the Intel chipset drivers (the installer will detect all supported devices by its own), you should look into the Device Manager again for "Unknown Devices" or Devices without suitable drivers. Write down the names of these devices. Then do a right click onto them and look for the details. You will probably find the HardwareID's of them. Post the vendor (VEN_xxxx) and device (DEV_xxxx) details and I will find the suitable drivers for you.

The 64bit capable CPU allows you to install 32bit and 64bit Operating Systems, but if you install a 32bit OS, you should never try to install a 64bit driver (and vice versa a 64bit OS absolutely requires 64bit drivers). At first step you should run the insataller of the Intel chipset driver package ("INF Update Utility"). You can get the actual driverpack here.

@ rlj399: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Why don't you just follow my guide? If you want to create a Windows XP CD with integrated Intel SATA AHCI drivers, you should just take the 32bit version of the Intel textmode driver I have linked to within my guide. By the way: The Intel SATA drivers can be used with Vista and XP, but you should not mix the 32bit and 64bit drivers. Attention: If you should get troubles during the XP installation, I recommend to remove 2 GB of RAM before you start the XP installation. You can reinsert them after the installation is completed. Good luck! Fernando

yes.(and if i set on BIOS AHCImode - i get BSOD) i install from this folder the setup.exe of MCP73 \GIGABYTE Motherboard ver 1.1\Chipset\IDE\MCP73 You cannot install a driver for a not existing device (as long as the SATA mode is set to IDE, the OS is not able to detect any AHCI Controller).Nevertheless it is possible to get the AHCI mode enabled from within a running XP (by copying the needed driver into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder and running a registry patch before setting the SATA mode to AHCI while rebooting), but this procedure is dangerous and not well developed for NVIDIA nForce AHCI systems. You may look here. Suggestion: Do a fresh install of XP by using a Windows XP CD with integrated NVIDIA nForce AHCI drivers. You should follow part B. of my guide (look here). Take the specific SATA_IDE driver folder for MCP73 chipsets I have linked to within my guide. Good luck! Fernando

Just a side note: An optical IDE drive is not able to run in AHCI mode, because AHCI is a SATA standard and not available for natively IDE Controllers. You should give me some more informations about the reason of the yellow mark.Do a right click onto the device and look for the issue and maybe the HardwareID's ("Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareID's").

@ aviv88: Many SATA connected optical drives don't like to be run in AHCI or RAID mode, some of them don't work at all unless the associated SATA Controller has been set to IDE mode. Tip: You may look for a firmware update for your DVD drive. Maybe the vendor has already solved the problem. If you are not even able to boot off your built-in DVD drive, I doubt, that it will work properly in AHCI mode at all. You will certainly be able to get XP running in AHCI mode - either by borrowing an IDE connected optical drive and using it during the XP installation off your prepared CD with integrated AHCI drivers - or by installing the OS in IDE mode and then copying the SATA AHCI driver and running the AHCI registry patch, but I doubt, that you will ever be able to boot off your currently running DVD drive. Users with a problem like yours have the following options: a ) If availble, connect the optical drive to a SATA Controller of another vendor (for example Silicon Image) or disable the AHCI/RAID mode of the individual SATA Controller, where the optical drive is connected to (both obviously not possible with your mainboard). b ) Buy and insert an IDE connected optical drive (there is no speed disadvantage at all!) or a SATA one, which has no boot problems if set to AHCI mode. c ) Set the SATA mode to IDE (disadvantage: no AHCI features like NCQ and Hot Plugging). CU Fernando