Newbie Having Problems

[Bella]

Hi Guys,

I'm hoping you can help.

I've been f*****g around with nLite for the last two days - not because I'm really a computer person - but because I need to do a clean install & I no longer have a floppy drive. (The dreaded F6, thus).

After much gnuzzling, (with screens consistently telling me all was successful while the disk was 1) empty or 2) had nothing useful on it) - I finally managed to burn an bootable CD from the ISO created by nLite.

However, that didn't bring me happy success - as that CD takes me through a dos screen and ends (after about 2 seconds of scrolling screen) with "Dr Dos" asking for something in A:\, the famous non-existent floppy drive.

Does this ring bells with anyone? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? nLite seems so simple... Everything goes in, no problem. The drivers are integrated. The tweeks I select are performed. I get an .ISO image. But then, nothing...

If you can help, many thanks.

Bella

PS:

I'm working on:

Intel core 2 @ 6600 with 2 gigs Ram

with a Asus P5B motherboard

Windows XP Pro with Service pack 2 included (British version)

(It's a new computer - so I still have all the original disks, etc)

As far as I can tell, the motherboard software includes an audio driver (SoundMax); a LAN driver (RealTek); and an SCSI / Raid controller (JMicron).

B.

PPS: Yes, I've checked that my Nero is up to date (version 6,6) - and that my bios are OK - and that I'm set to install from either DVD drive before the HD.

[deadeyerich]

Bella,

I've seen the Dr. Dos screen when my CD-Rom is set to boot first in my BIOS and my ASUS Motherboard CD is in my DVD burner. It sounds like you may have integrated more then just the RAID drivers from your CD, if that is the where you got your drivers from. I just started fooling around with nLite yesterday and successfully integrated the drivers by downloading the nForce4 drivers from the NVIDIA website as suggested on the nLite site. When I downloaded the drivers, I did see the option for Intel drivers (I'm an AMD person). I am assuming that you do have the NForce4 chipset. If so, here is the link to the drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

I hope this helps.

[Bella]

Hi Deadeyerich,

Many thanks. That does help. I *did* install all applicable drivers from the motherboard disk.

Could you possibly tell me - or could anyone else on this forum tell me - which drivers exactly I'm supposed to install during Windows setup (ie: with nLite) and which drivers after? The folks who customed my computer told me, rather vaguely, that "some of the drivers, like the motherboard, need to be installed during the Windows installation, and others need to be installed afterwards. We do it all with a server so I can't tell you anthing more specific."

In my nLite installation, I installed everything from my motherboard, as well as my graphics driver (Nvidia). List Below:

SCSI Adaptor/controler - jmicron

Audio Driver

Chipset driver - Intel

WiFi driver - RealTek

Display driver - NVIDIA 9.1.4.7

Any ideas about which of these I should remove? (The computer *will* run if I install all drivers after the Windows installation, but it's slow... which is why I wanted to reinstall with nLite).

Again, many thanks!

Bella

PS: I didn't repeat my set-up, but if you need that info, it's at the bottom of my original post. Thanks, B.

Bella,

I've seen the Dr. Dos screen when my CD-Rom is set to boot first in my BIOS and my ASUS Motherboard CD is in my DVD burner. It sounds like you may have integrated more then just the RAID drivers from your CD, if that is the where you got your drivers from. I just started fooling around with nLite yesterday and successfully integrated the drivers by downloading the nForce4 drivers from the NVIDIA website as suggested on the nLite site. When I downloaded the drivers, I did see the option for Intel drivers (I'm an AMD person). I am assuming that you do have the NForce4 chipset. If so, here is the link to the drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

I hope this helps.