just installed 2 Raptors in SATA RAID 0, all was going well, set up my RAID, booted from the Windows XP CD, installed the SATA 1.21 drivers, Windows loaded in like 10 min. My copy is an older XP Pro copy that does not have SP1 on it. I am running a 2500 Barton on a Abit NF7-S board. As it was installing devices, I got a couple of warnings regarding that the devices were not logo signed or tested. To be honest, I have built many systems, and several NForce setups, and never seen these warnings when installing the devices. One I recall was for the SATA drivers, which, at the time I understood, since that was the only hardware I added, and figured with it being new technology and all........so I cont. anyway,a nd installed the device. Another one came up, and if I recall was for the NForce digital sound. This really confused me, cause like I said, I have loaded this copy of Windows several times on this board, and XP, on other systems many times and never seen these logo warnings.
So, it all got in, and booted up fine, then I tried to install the 3.13 NForce drivers. I had had them on previously on my IDE drive with this copy of Windows, and had no problems. Well it never finished installing the drivers, it just rebooted, and would not load Windows because a driver file was corrupt or missing xxxpnp.rdr file, or something. I didnt write it down unfortunately.
I installed Windows twice, same thing happening when I tried to put the NForce drivers in. What the heck?? I have installed these a million times. Finally, I chose to reapair, and saw several NForce audio logo warnings at the loading device screen again, and this time selected, "NO", not to install the devices. I went fine, and after it reapired, all my drivers were in there for the NForce chipset except the audio drivers.
Later, doing Windows update, I installed the NForce sound drivers, and everything is fine now.
Can someone shed some light on possibly what I just went through, so I can possibly figure out what happened, so I can handle it better next time?
Like I said, I am not a newbie to building systems, or installing Windows, but I can honestly say that I have never seen any logo warnings when it is installing devices, and never seen NForce drivers crash while going in, and corrupt a file so that Windows would not boot up.
Would appreciate any input!
Eric
So, it all got in, and booted up fine, then I tried to install the 3.13 NForce drivers. I had had them on previously on my IDE drive with this copy of Windows, and had no problems. Well it never finished installing the drivers, it just rebooted, and would not load Windows because a driver file was corrupt or missing xxxpnp.rdr file, or something. I didnt write it down unfortunately.
I installed Windows twice, same thing happening when I tried to put the NForce drivers in. What the heck?? I have installed these a million times. Finally, I chose to reapair, and saw several NForce audio logo warnings at the loading device screen again, and this time selected, "NO", not to install the devices. I went fine, and after it reapired, all my drivers were in there for the NForce chipset except the audio drivers.
Later, doing Windows update, I installed the NForce sound drivers, and everything is fine now.
Can someone shed some light on possibly what I just went through, so I can possibly figure out what happened, so I can handle it better next time?
Like I said, I am not a newbie to building systems, or installing Windows, but I can honestly say that I have never seen any logo warnings when it is installing devices, and never seen NForce drivers crash while going in, and corrupt a file so that Windows would not boot up.
Would appreciate any input!
Eric