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@ Lancelot Real: I am sorry, that I cannot help you due to the lack of any experience with BartPE. Furthermore I have no idea how to solve your drive letter problem. All your difficulties probably have something to do with the fact, that the Intel ICH8 Controller (without R or M) natively doesn't support AHCI. CU Fernando

Storage Controller drivers with a file named TXTSETUP.OEM always have to be integrated as TEXTMODE. You won't find anything else within my guide. Thanks for this report about the intagration of the Promise FastTrak Controller drivers.Hopefully other users with the same Controller will find your post here. CU Fernando EDIT: More than 500.000 views now - I am overwhelmed with emotions!

Why didn't you integrate the drivers I have recommended and linked within my guide? You should highlight just the Intel ® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M), when you see the textmode driver popup while preparing your nLited XP CD Image. It probably did not find your hdd, because you loaded the wrong Intel textmode driver (SATA RAID instead of SATA AHCI). Yes, you should see just for a moment, that the file IASTOR.SYS is being loaded during the first (=textmode) part of the OS installation. When you have integrated the correct Intel SATA AHCI driver for ICH8M chipsets, your hdd will be detected after having loaded all textmode drivers. Everything is done by nLite automaticly. You can verify the proper installation of the hardware and the associated drivers by looking into the device manager after having completed the OS installation.

Fine, that you succeeded at least.CU Fernando

Hi PatrickNT,you are welcome. Thanks for giving this positive feedback. CU Fernando

You can use the Intel textmode drivers of my prepared package for Vista too. The only thing to pay attention is, that Vista x86 needs the 32bit package whereas you have to take the 64bit one for Vista x64.

Answers:1) BSOD = "Blue screen of death" 2) Look into your mainboard manual. 3) Look here. 4) Look for the SP2 at Windows Update. You can download the english version of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP (Home and Professional) here. 5) No, you can either integrate SP2 or the RC version of the upcoming SP3. As long as SP3 is not released, I would integrate SP2.

No, besides the 6 Intel ICH9R channels your board has 2 eSATA ports controlled by Marvell Controllers. No, if you want to add a Service Pack, you have to integrate the whole package. The WIN51IP.SP2 file is just 1 small file of the large SP2 package, which shows Windows setup, that the SP2 is integrated (should be in your case). The reason for this BSOD is either a memory issue or a bad driver.This is what I suggest: 1. Remove 1 of your ATI graphic cards and try to restart the installation (I have read about problems with 2 cards during the installation). Once the OS is running, you can restore the CrossFire configuration. 2. Disable all not needed hardware devices (for example the eSATA Controllers) within the BIOS. 3. Test you memory sticks with memtest. Remove 1 or 2 sticks, if you have more than 2 GB of memory. 4. If none of the previously mentioned options really helped and the OS installation still fails, you should create a new nLited CD by just integrating Service Pack 2 (the whole package) and the Intel textmode drivers and nothing else. Try to get XP installed by using this freshly created and burned CD.

@ Akkuma: Thanks for your reply and the detailed explanations. CU Fernando

AFAIK Marvell is a manufacturer of Ethernet (LAN) chips. I have never heard about Marvell S-ATA Controllers. Look where your CD/DVD-ROM drive is connected to the mainboard and try to set this S-ATA port to "IDE" mode. Then you will be able to boot off this optical device.

Is your CD/DVD-ROM device connected to an Intel S-ATA port?If yes, you should either connect it to another non-Intel S-ATA port (for example of JMicron, if available) or you have to replace your built-in CD/DVD-ROM device by an IDE connected one just while installing the OS. After having the OS up, you will be able to replace it by the S-ATA connected optical drive. EDIT: There are 2 different boot order settings within the BIOS:1. the "normal" boot device order (CD/DVD-ROM at first, RAID at second etc.) and 2. the HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY settings (RAID disk at first, other non-Raid hdd's as second and third etc.).

Mass storage controller drivers, which have to be loaded by F6/floppy or integrated into an OS CD, are TEXTMODE drivers, because they have to be present within the first (=textmode) part of the installation. Otherwise the OS Setup will not detect the storage devices (S-ATA hdd's, RAID partitions etc.).If you are going to integrate such drivers by using nLite, you have to pay attention, that they will be integrated as TEXTMODE and not as PnP (=normal device) drivers. nLite normally detects a textmode driver (having a TXTSETUP.OEM file) and will set the driver integration popup window automaticly to TEXTMODE. The Intel Matrix Storage Controller textmode driver I have uploaded within my guide (first post of this thread) can easily be integrated by nLite. The IASTOR.SYS file is the driver itself, the TXTSETUP.OEM contains the informations for the textmode part of the installation, the 2 INF files (IAAHCI.INF and IASTOR.INF) contain the needed informations for the later hardware detection part of the Windows Setup and the CAT file contains the WHQL informations of the driver.If you point nLite to any of the 2 INF files, nLite will integrate all files of the driver folder into the OS image. So there is nothing to be additionally done by you.

Thanks for answering my question. If the user doesn't get any performance benefit by enabling the AHCI mode with Intel ICH8 chipset mainboards, why do you suggest nevertheless to do it and to load the modified AHCI drivers?

Thanks for your post and for uploading the fixed INF file version.Which "strange" entry do you have in the Device Manager?

Thanks for this additional statement and the download links.Since I do not want to make my guide larger than necessary, I have just put an additional link to your post into my guide. CU Fernando

Thank you for this important information. Since obviously some ICH8 and ICH9 chipsets are fully supporting AHCI despite the contrary announcements done by Intel, I have updated my guide regarding this point. Thanks again! Fernando

Hi Grubi,it's fine, that I could help you with my guide to get XP installed onto your Intel chipset Medion laptop. I have done a google search for the Hardware Id "ACPI\PNPOC32", but I only got links in cyrillic letters, which I cannot read. It is obviously a power management driver for your laptop (originally a Toshiba Satelite?). Ask the Medion support for a suitable driver. If you have a laptop with preinstalled Vista, you may have problems to get a working XP driver for that device. Good luck and happy new year! Fernando

That's what you have already written and I remarked, that it it is useless to integrate these drivers as PnP when you have a Sil3114 RAID.Once more my questions: 1. Which mainboard do you have? 2. Do you really have created a Sil3114 RAID array? If yes, is it "healthy" and set as bootable? 3. Have you set the RAID as first bootable hard disk within your mainboard BIOS (HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY option)? 4. Which driver package did you try to integrate (I don't need the name of the INF file) and where did you get it from? UPDATE: I just have seen the sentence you have edited after having seen this post: Fine, that you succeeded now after having taken the correct Sil3112 drivers.Do you remember your first post? Here is your statement: So it was not nLite's mistake, that you didn't succeeed with the XP installation.Final notice: It was not easy to help you, because you always added new informations into your previous posts while or after I have answered.

So you have a RAID5 array and tried to integrate the Sil3114 RAID drivers as PnP drivers? That will never work!You have to integrate the drivers as TEXTMODE drivers.

Although you have added some details, you should give some more informations regarding your system (mainboard name, RAID/non-RAID) and the drivers you tried to integrate.

Thanks for the response and the link to the details of your mainboard (I already found this page before).My question had another background. Future users with the same nForce chipset mainboard should know where they can download the suitable nForce chipset drivers as mentioned within my guide. Is it possible to get the 9.24 package from NVIDIA? If yes, which chipset series and chipset will the user have to choose at NVIDIA's download homepage to be leaded at least to these drivers? EDIT: Meanwhile I found the chipset driver package v.9.24, which has successfully been used for Windows XP x64 by liqnit. If you are at NVIDIA's driver homepage, you have to choose "nForce", "nForce Professional 3000 Series", "driver" and then "Windows Server 2003 x64" as OS. So you won't get them, if you are searching for Windows XP x64 nForce chipset drivers!

AFAIK you have 2 options:1. Run the BIOS and set the S-ATA Controller, where the DVD-ROM drive is connected, to IDE mode and the hdd connected Controllers to AHCI mode. 2. If the first option is not possible, you should borrow somewhere a natively IDE connected optical drive just for the OS installation. Once it is finished, you will be able to replace it by your S-ATA connected one. As I don't have an Intel ICH9R chipset mainboard, I don't have any own experience regarding this problem.

The first one is the ASUS ACPI device. You will find the driver on your ASUS mainboard CD.The second one probably is the floppy disk controller. If you don't have any floppy drive device, you should disable the FDD Controller within the BIOS. DOH!...Sorry about the Floppy, BIOS had reset and I forgot to disable floppy again ASUS ACPI device... hmmm wonder if that can be intergated also... will browse the cd... Thank you for your help and your patience, greatly appreciated! You are welcome!

Thanks for posting the working nForce chipset driver package version, which might help other users with the same mainboard.Which is the exact nForce chipset name of your mainboard? Is it the nForce Professional 3000 series?

The first one is the ASUS ACPI device. You will find the driver on your ASUS mainboard CD.The second one probably is the floppy disk controller. If you don't have any floppy drive device, you should disable the FDD Controller within the BIOS.