illegalbrain Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I thought I finally had figured this out... I integrated the Gigabyte Jmicron Drivers into my XP installation disk and it recognized the drive, installed Windows and started to boot but git a BAD_POOL_CALLER error just before getting into Windows. I could boot into Safe Mode, and I'm assuming its related to the AHCI drivers. The problem is I don't have a floppy drive but I want to use AHCI on my HDD (Not RAID though). My motherboard is a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P, and it also has IHC8R SATA controller, but I couldn't seem to extract the .inf files from the installation package! I had a choice of TXT mode drivers from a floppy folder, PNP drivers from a drivers folder and some application driver as well... the first time I tried it with just the AHCI driver from the floppy folder, and selected the highest number (GBxxx), but it didn't recognize the HDD during installation, so I tried again and selected all the drivers for XP, and that's how I got to where I am now.I have read of other people doing this, so I know its possible, and I don't want to keep burning disks and installing XP with every possible combination, so I was wondering if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?Thanks.
illegalbrain Posted July 21, 2007 Author Posted July 21, 2007 I got it fixed, the problem was I was using the wrong driver pack and choosing drivers for more than one chipset... I got the actual floppy disk setup pack from the Gigabyte site and extracted them, directed nLite to the folder during driver integration and then made sure I only chose the AHCI and RAID drivers for the chipset (two files). Mind you, I ended up doing it with the IHC8R drivers and not the Jmicron ones, but I'm sure it would have worked with those as well.
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