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You can verify it after having completed the XP installation by having a look into the device manager.Either within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI" or in the "Storage Controller" section you should find a device like "Intel SATA AHCI Controller".

It is a good idea to additionally integrate the INF Intel Chipset drivers.You didn't answer to my question, if your S-ATA hdd was connected to one of the Intel S-ATA port while installing XP. That is the most important point! Please check, where the S-ATA data cable from your hdd is connected. If you want to use the Intel S-ATA Controller features, you have to make sure, that the cable is connected to one of the Intel ports. If you are really unsure, you should enable the AHCI option for all S-ATA ports (Intel and JMicron) while installing Windows XP. After the successful install you can disable the not needed ports and AHCI settings. Set it as "native". You should enable it.Good luck! Fernando

Are you sure, thata ) your S-ATA hdd was connected to an Intel S-ATA Connector while installing XP and b ) you had enabled TEXTMODE while integrating the Intel S-ATA driver? Because they are better and have better support (more frequently driver updates).

I just have downloaded and read the manual of your mainboard.Result: There are 4 Intel ICH8 S-ATA ports (close to the border of the board) and 2 Gigayte (JMicron) S-ATA ports (near to the Intel ones, but closer to the center of the board). So you can decide which of the S-ATA ports (Intel or JMicron) you want to use. I recommend to take one of the Intel ports (0,1,2 or 3). If you want to connect your S-ATA hdd to an Intel port, you should enable AHCI for this port. As I could get only the description of the mainboard and not the BIOS details, I cannot give you any advice how to set the correct BIOS settings. If you are using the Gigabyte (JMicron) drivers for Windows XP, you have to download the Floppy32 drivers, but you have to enable TEXTMODE while integrating with nLite. I don't think, that you need to run the installer, if the drivers are already installed (by slipstreaming them).

No, as far as I understand Gigabyte's homepage your mainboard doesn't have any Intel S-ATA Controller. So you only need to integrate the Gigabyte (=JMicron) SataRaid driver package as TEXTMODE driver. Yes, that is what you should do. No, as I already wrote, you should not integrate both Intel and JMicron drivers. I don't understand, what you mean. AFAIK your motherboard doesn't have any Intel S-ATA Controller. If I am right, you have no choice! When your motherboard doesn't have any Intel S-ATA Controllers, the post message is correct and just means, that only Gigabyte AHCI Bios is installed. You are obviously confused now, but there is nothing to warry about.Do the following: At first check your mainboard manual, if you have any Intel S-ATA Controllers on board (obviously you don't, because Gigabyte doesn't offer any Intel S-ATA or Raid drivers for your motherboard). When you are sure, that all S-ATA Controllers of your mainboard are Gigabyte (=JMicron) ones, do the following: 1. Create a bootable XP CD with slipstreamed 32bit Gigabyte (JMicron) S-ATA drivers (integrated as textmode). You can additionally integrate the Intel INF chipset drivers as PnP drivers (these INF drivers are not needed at all during the installation and have nothing to do with S-ATA or RAID connected hdd!). 2. Then prepare your mainboard BIOS for the Gigabyte S-ATA AHCI mode. The S-ATA Connector, where your hdd is connected, should be enabled and set to "AHCI mode". 3. Then boot off the nLited XP CD with the integrated Gigabyte SATA AHCI drivers.

That's right. Windows Setup is not able to recognise a JMicron S-ATA AHCI Controller connected hdd, if you load the Intel drivers.Your motherboard obviously has an Intel ICH8 southbridge (and needs the Intel INF chipset drivers), but has not Intel S-ATA Controllers at all. If you want to use the AHCI features (which is recommended), you have to enable "AHCI Mode" within your BIOS and slipstream the Gigabyte (=JMicron) S-ATA textmode drivers. You have to enable the "AHCI Mode" before you are going to install a Windows OS. Your motherboard supports AHCI, but the SATA AHCI Controller is the JMicron one. The S-ATA feature "Advanced Host Controller Interface" (=AHCI) was created by Intel first, but other chipset manufacturers are doing the same now (even NVIDIA recently have put the AHCI feature into their newest S-ATA Controllers).

You only have to wait a few seconds unless you have used Rapidshare for a big download just before. Yes! The correct one for you is the one above the one you have enabled.By the way: I have written within my guide, that you should enable all listed Intel SATA Controllers, if you are not sure, which one of the listed Controller is the correct one. Yes!

Why have you done this?It would have been easier just to take the small driver package I have linked to within my guide. No, you slipstreamed the wrong SATA RAID and not the needed SATA AHCI Controller (just 1 position above the one you enabled). The ICH8 Controller will be detected by Windows Setup, if you integrate the needed Intel textmode driver for the ICH8 SATA AHCI Controller. You didn't enable the needed AHCI Controller, because you don't have a RAID array.

You are right and this is a good idea to prevent the problem, but it doesn't really help, when XP with integrated SP3 is already installed.

It is no problem to get sound onto a mashine with winxp sp3 installed.You should not run the KB888111.exe, but just extract the SP2 version of the KB file. Then you can install the missing driver by "updating" the software for the detected PCI device. Open the device manager, "update" the software for the "unknown PCI device" and just point to the "commonfiles" folder of the extracted package. After having done that you will get the missed sound.

Here are my answers:1. You can let nLite remove the SCSI/RAID drivers (to save some space on your hdd and time during the textmode part of the Windows Setup), but this is not really necessary. 2. You should not remove the original MS IDE drivers, because you may need them for your native IDE devices (CD-ROM/DVD). Thanks for your suggestion regarding the Intel INF chipset driver package. I have modified my guide regarding this point. CU Fernando

Please explain the step 6. The Intel INF drivers is a archive .EXE. How can integrate this Intel INF drivers?You have to extract it twice by using a tool like WinRar or 7-zip.Here is what you should do: 1. Extract the whole EXE archive. 2. Extract the EXE archive again you will find after having done step 1. 3. Pick any INF file you find within the folder named "All". I will add this into my guide or pre-extract the package and link to it.

For users like you I have written this guide.There you find download links to the actual Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers too (without a need to extract the package in a difficult way).

Thanks for your report, but I cannot see the reason, why you posted your "big" and obviously solved problem into this nLite forum. 1. Your experience is not the "PROBLEM OF THE YEAR". There are much bigger ones in the world. 2. What has a computer virus, a missing internet connection and broken floppy drives to do with nLite? 3. I doubt, that the failure of copying some driver files from a floppy drive during the Windows Setup is a bug of nLite. If you are using an nLited OS CD, you should not do the F6/floppy method, but integrate the drivers into the bootable CD. That works!

Here is an excerpt from my nForce textmode driver integration tutorial, which is layed down here:

Your story about the "unknown.sys" file is very strange, because there is no such file within any Intel driver package.If you slipstream the Intel textmode drivers exactly the way I have layed down within my first post, you will succeed (unless you have another problem within yóur system). Maybe you should do a google search for "unknown.sys" to find out the real reason for your trouble.

If you haven chosen the "Unattended Install", you should not hit F6.Have you tried to enable all possible AHCI Controllers while integrating the Intel textmode drivers with nLite?

The extraction is not needed, if you use the actual driver packages linked within the first post of this thread. Furthermore I will keep the download links up-to-date. CU Fernando

At which point of the XP install did you get this strange behaviour? Did you really follow my guide?If you do not come to the point where you have to decide where to install XP, you obviously have a problem with your system. No, that is like a clean OS CD. All SYS files are drivers. XP is obviously searching for an unknown driver.Did you hit F6 (you should not!)? If not, try the following: Create a bootable XP CD and integrate not only the Intel textmode drivers, but additionally the Intel INF chipset drivers. You will find a download link within my guide (first post).

It is not easy to understand your message. This is the nLite forum where users are going to integrate textmode and device drivers and you are going to tell us how to get the drivers onto a virtual or a real floppy drive. All you should know, if you are going to install Windows XP onto an Intel chipset mainboard, is layed down in this guide. If you follow the guide, you will see, that it doesn't matter, if your notebook has an ICH7M or an ICH8M chipset mainboard.

What have you done to solve the problem (might be interesting for other users)? EDIT: Since I believe, that Mann will not answer anymore, I suppose, that he found at least the correct JMicron textmode drivers I have linked to.

That doesn't work at all. Windows Setup will not detect your JMicron Controller connected S-ATA hdd's, if AHCI is enabled within your BIOS.Download this JMicron driver package and unzip it. You will find the suitable textmode driver within the Floppy32 folder. The ICHxM controllers (M=Mobile) are supporting AHCI and RAID too.

Do you have different SATA hdd's connected to different (Intel and JMicron) S-ATA ports?Are you sure, that you installed the correct drivers for the connected port? Which JMicron textmode driver did you load?

1. As I have written within my guide:You cannot use Intel drivers, when your hdd is connected to any JMicron port. Then you have to integrate the JMicron Controller drivers. 2. If you disable AHCI within your BIOS and let the S-ATA Controllers run the IDE mode, you don't need to integrate any textmode driver, but in this case you will abandon all AHCI features of your built-in S-ATA Controllers.

@ all owners of a computer with an Intel S-ATA AHCI or Raid system: Many users with such system have problems, when they try to install Windows XP (32/64 bit) or Windows Server 2003 (32/64 bit), because the Setup of these Operating Systems will not automaticly detect the hdd's, which are connected to the Intel S-ATA AHCI or Intel SATA RAID ports of the mainboard. Furthermore the traditional F6/floppy method often fails due to bad floppy media or the lack of a floppy drive. The easiest and safest solution is the integration of the Intel Controller drivers into a bootable 32/64bit XP or W2k3 CD by using a tool like nLite. Here is the way how to do it: Integration of the Intel SATA AHCI or SATA RAID drivers by using nLite Guide for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (32/64 bit) (removed at 08/25/2013) Dear visitors, in November 2007 I have written at this place my first guide about the integration of Intel's textmode drivers into a Windows XP CD by using the tool nLite. Until now (August 2013) I have tried to answer all questions and to keep this guide up-to-date and to offer download links to various suitable and actual Intel AHCI and RAID drivers. Due to the recently completely altered software of this Forum I am not able anymore to update my old MSDN Forum guides the usual way. Since I don't want to offer here an outdated guide with broken download links and since I am offering the related guides within my own new Win-RAID Forum as well, I decided to completely delete the original text of this start post and to refer to my new Forum. If you want to read my complete and up-to-date instructions about how to integrate Intel's AHCI and RAID drivers into a Windows XP (32/64bit) image and if you are searching for links to the drivers I recommend to integrate, you should join >this< site of my Forum. Hoping for your understanding and best wishes Fernando