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I used the F6, followed exactlly what shuttle said on that page you sent me.... perfect thanks alot!!! Maybe you could add it to your first post.... i also double checked and your right ---> so i guess i just have to annoy shuttle until i get something.. thanks for the help, i guess ill have to wait alittle more for raid 0 and xp x64...... B) Mike

Perfect.... worked now what do you think we can do with x64? Thanks!!!!! Mike EDIT: Drivers that work with my shuttle on a 32 bit xp pro ftp://ftp.shuttle.com/Drivers/new/fn95/cd...id%20driver.zip Mike

thanks illl go ahead and try it, a couple things, it has to be the RAID becuase i can install both 32 and 64 bit xp on the drives, one master with os and one slave for storage... works fine.... its when i try raid i have a problem.... next a couple more important things... when i tried the IDE ATA drives, i got another stop error STOP(0x00000024) ?? but that was only for the IDE, for the SATA RAID i got that other code i posted earlier.. next this is probly a newbie question but after trying to set up a raid 0 with xp i used your advice and used seagate tools.. when it read the first drive it showed it formated at 320 GB and the second drive at 160 GB?? is that what raid does, becuase i thought both are formated at 160 GB and the raid controlls the stripping.... just curious (if this dosnt make any sense ask.. i just woke up ) thank you for helping i wish you a happy new year and maybe one day i can get it to work!!! p.s. i never realized how slow it was without raid until i tested it last night... wow xp too twice as long to install!!! Mike Olsen oh one more thing is IDE RAID 0 alot slower than SATA RAID 0? just curious

well i went out and bought 2 IDE ata 160 GB drives and tried those instead of the sata ones, same **** thing... then tried again withthe satas this time xp 32 bit nothing, ide ata on 32 bit, nothing.... ithink shuttle has a problem, or at lease mine,..... **** im SOL, should have gone with somthing other than NVIDIA.... well ill try contacting shuttle to see what i get but i doubt ill get anything.... thanks Fernando for all the help... if anyone has the same shuttle i have and has successfully got it to raid 0, IDE or SATA (i dont really care anymore ) please let me know Mike Olsen

If I were you I would bring the mainboard to the dealer where I bought it and let him test the Raid Controller. yea i think i might but i have a raptor drive that im not using, i think i might just go with that one and 1 of my seagate satas as a slave... im just getting sick of this, thanks for sticking with me ill let you know what i finnally do good night mike one last thing i contacted noen, someone who you tried to help in the beginning, he said he eventually gave up i might end up doing the same thanks Mike

ok just for any one who has this problem.... i just hit somthing wierd, the NVIDIA RAID screen, the one that says healthy on it, just dissappeared, i have raid turned on in the CMOS but it wont show that screen anymore --- FIX all i did was reset the CMOS and it came back, very strange.... Mike i did back up my bios when i flashed it, but i dotn knwo much about that so i guess i wont do anything too risky for now, good night, and let me know if you have anymore idea thanks Mike

wow i really hate shuttle, and there is now way to hack it? well i can install it i just cant get anywhere after the blue screen the floppy works perfect on raid JBOD xp x64 and installs on a raid 0 xp x64 but it dosnt go anywhere after that annoying blue screen well i guess ill try that, man im SOL thanks i wish we could figure it out, i think ill give it a couple more days before i just go back to JBOD or 32 bit raid 0 (if it works) Mike EDIT one more quick thing, when formating in windows set up do i quick NTFS or full NTFS, i tried doing the full NTFS but it take hours and hours, maybe this is one of my problem.... just looking at every factor Mike

yes its enabledSTOP: 0X0000007B(0XAFFFFFADFC8C0F3C0,0XFFFFFFFFC0000034,0X0000000000000000,0X0000000000000000) I THINK ended me with the same results should i try Remove Components now? Mike well like i said before with the same configureation, same processor, motherboard ram, videocard everything is the same, i had JBOD raid working fine, with windows xp x64, now i wish i could tell you what drivers i used that time but i know i tried them before i even started posting on this site, so if there is a conflict it must only be visable in raid 0 thanks Mike

ok here is that screen i had, just finished burning the iso and getting ready to install per your instructions 2 posts above Mike

thanks dude i really appreciate it its the same one, i wish i wrote it down but somthing about disk corruption, maybe a virus and no disk termination, if i get it again ill try to screen shot it and post it ok ill try both of these methods, one mistake i know i was making was.... i will have to try this one out, all i was doing was integrating drivers i will let you know before it gets too late, if not you can answer back when im in bed p.s. i think i can install windows xp in my sleep i must have done it over 50 times Mike

Sorry i should have been more clear, it installed , first part, then went to the GUI intall, then when it tried to reboot to start windows for the first time, i can see the Windows XP x64 screen for not even a second and then it reboots, that was with just the 6.25 drivers integrated with nLite ok i will one quick question im new to nLite, is their anyway you can make a preset or somthing and send it to me, i have followed you instruction and i dont think nLite is the problem but maybe im not using it right thanks Mike

yes i have the SN95G5v3 and i flashed it with the lastest off their website file sn95s3xa.bin, realesed 2005/12/16 but it still dosnt say 4.84, it says 4.81. after the update i tried the install with the 6.25 last night, nothing, so right now im going to try the 6.67, or should i try thr 6.66 and change the file? thanks! Mike EDIT SHould i still take the rest of the drivers out of 6.25 everytime(i have) but maybe one of them keeps causing the crash, just wondering.... Mike

You might need it, if you want to install the native 64-bit SataRaid drivers (from the nForce package v. 6.66 and higher). By the way: You have taken the SataRaid drivers off the 64-bit package v. 6.66 unless I have recommended to take the package v. 6.67 (see post No 1 of this thread). If you have read all sites and posts of this thread, you should have realized, that I keep my guide layed down in post No 1 always up-to-date. I don't know. AFAIK there have been different types of nForce3 chipsets. Only nForce3 250 supports a 64-bit OS. well on your first post you said only if you have nforce 4, and for nforce 3 take the 6.25, should i use the 6.67? Mike

another quick question, if my chipset is nForce3 250 Gb, does the 250 GB mean anything, is that the max it can read? just wondering thanks Mike

ok i updated it to 4.81 (the lastest i could find for my shuttle) and im gonna try again, do you think i need 4.84? Mike

oh my god Raid BIOS (v. 4.60) let me see if i can fix that and see if it works Mike

Have you seen my Edit one post above? I forgot to answer your first question.Good night! Fernando yes thanks, im going to try the dual boot, sorry to keep you up, ill see what i can do right now and ill let you know in a coupple of hours thanks Mike Olsen

yea i think i have tried every combination of the drivers possible! ok ill try that, thanks for sticking with me Mike

yup, tried it, still the same thing, is there any way i can view that blue screen? also when i try to start in safe mode it stops and restars when it gets to: "acpitabl.dat" ? what is this file? well im just going to have to keep trying stuff, im getting really really frustrated, i cant figure out what im doing wrong thanks Mike

I you want, you can try to create a new nLited CD with the 6.25 drivers first (see Nr. 3 within my post from 09:54) and try to install Windows XPx64 this way.I really cannot believe, that your problems are due to the fact, that you did not do a low level format. CU Fernando yea no luck, low level format did not help, then i tried filling both disks with zeros, (seagate tools sugestion) nothing, same endless reboot. i wish i knew what to do, well im gonna try ever combination of the drivers i find online, let me know if you have any ideas. Mike

Yes, and then create your Raid array onto your clean disks.Good luck! Fernando thanks, ill let you know Mike

You said, that you reformatted both disks. Did you do it in "low level format"? This is very important, because otherwise you have rests of the old file structure on your Raid array.If you have not done it, I suggest to do the following: 1. Make a "low level format" of both hard disk (take the Seagate Tool). 2. Try a new install by using your nLited CD. If this fails: 3. Create a new bootable CD by nLite, but this time take the IDE\WinXP drivers from the 6.25 package (don't edit the TXTSETUP.OEM!). Good luck! Fernando ok ill have to try that, but to make myself clear what i did was, 1) enabled the sata drives (2 x 160 GB) for raid, 2) set up the raid for stripping 3) cleared disk data (in F10 raid) 4) booted my nlite cd, 5) and formatted the single 300 or so GB drive using NTFS (quick). So what you say i should do is reformat them individually before i set up the raid? Sorry im a little new this is only my second time using a raid system Mike

Do you use another pc now or do you have access to the files of the partition you installed XPx64? acctually i reformatted both disks so i could put them in a raid 0, so right now i have a corrupted windows xp on 2 identical raid 0 disks, that will not boot , just the endless reboot cycle right before it loads xp, the raid is healthy and safe mood will not work Mike

Is your Rad array OK (declared as "healthy" on the second boot screen)?Was your Raid detected as 1 hard disk drive during the first (TEXTMODE) part of the install? yes it says healthy, 1 hard disk equal to 2 x 160 GB (a little over 300GB), well i had JBOD raid setup and Windows XP x64 working but i decided i wanted to go with stripping raid 0 and thats when i started having all the problems, ohh and 1 stick of ram dosnt change anything, i tried a fresh install and everything still endless reboots Thanks a lot for helping Mike

Which driver package did you take for the integration of the SataRaid drivers? nForce 6.66, http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_wi...4_amd_6.66.html i changed the txtsetup.oem file per your instructions and used package 6.25 for the other drivers , maybe im just mixing all of these up but i dont know its really annoying. thanks Mike