DFI LanParty RAID Drivers - ?

[Sliphorn]

Hello!

Firstly, my setup:

DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D Motherboard (onboard RAID)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual Core Processor

2 Western Digital 10,000 rpm Raptors in a RAID-0 array (striped)

Other superfluous gear...

Secondly, the problem:

I can't find the stinkin' proper drivers for RAID! I've looked for days, and maybe I'm just a knucklehead (likely), and maybe I'm simply not doing something right. I've initiated lots of searches, and people tend to come up with ideas for drivers, but they never seem to work for me. I'm trying to slipstream the RAID drivers into the disc, but it never works. When you choose the partition options for the installation, XP inevitably sees 2 different drives instead of one striped array (so the RAID drivers aren't functioning.

The farthest I got was last night, when I decided to install Bashrat the Sneaky's DriverPacks. The first several attempts were dismal failures, with the system just BSODing all over the place. Then, magically, XP saw my array as a single disk! I proceeded to install, and then it crashed! Boo Hoo.

So, Any ideas? One of the drivers on Bashrats DriverPacks worked, but I haven't a clue which. Also, I don't think I can use the DriverPack because it seemed to cause alot of stability problems, probably some drivers getting in each others' way. So, ideas?

I'm all ears! And thanks for reading the lengthy post.

Sliphorn

[Sliphorn]

Anyone?

[darks0ul]

Looks like you're using nForce RAID. If that's the case, check http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=27674

Otherwise, you're using the Silicon Image 3114 RAID, there must be a few topics about it.

[IcemanND]

have you found drivers that work using F6 and a floppy? If you can't get them to work that way you are just wasting CD's trying to slipstream them into a CD. Once you find textmode drivers that work with F6 and a cd without other drivers then the problem becomes properly integrating them. But you have to have the right driver first.

[darks0ul]

Your motherboard doesn't have the Silicon Image controller. Anyways, you can get the drivers here: http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/driv...G=A&SITE=US

The first one is what you should download and extract to a floppy disk, and when installing Windows XP (the blue loading screen), press F6.