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- Oct 7, 2004
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- Cincinnati
I snagged a couple 80 gig HDs and wanted to use the sata raid on the board in my sig. The BIOS detects everything fine. When I try to install winxp it says that installation must stop because there aren't any HDs present (my 120GB HD was disconnected).
At the beginning of installation, I've hit F6 to load up, alternately, both nvidia RAID drivers, the nvidia RAID drivers and the SI 3114 RAID drivers, or just the SI 3114 RAID drivers. Winxp never detects any drives. I try to disconnect one of the sata dives and windows sees it (either one, doesn't matter).
I've done a bit of reading on this but there was no mention of my board specifically so there were some differences. It seems that I can try to repair this problem with editing some driver setting and then slipstreaming it all onto a new XP disc. Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a burner. Also this solution seemed aimed at fixing a problem in which two drives are detected instead on just one array. As I said Winxp can't see any drives.
There also seems to be a way to repair the problem by installing Winxp on one drive and then using the nvRAIDtool to build the array from the desktop, but I found the directions a bit vague. If anyone knows this method, maybe you could explain it to me.
Any other suggestions are also welcome. I'll keep trying a few more things and try back later.
Thanks
At the beginning of installation, I've hit F6 to load up, alternately, both nvidia RAID drivers, the nvidia RAID drivers and the SI 3114 RAID drivers, or just the SI 3114 RAID drivers. Winxp never detects any drives. I try to disconnect one of the sata dives and windows sees it (either one, doesn't matter).
I've done a bit of reading on this but there was no mention of my board specifically so there were some differences. It seems that I can try to repair this problem with editing some driver setting and then slipstreaming it all onto a new XP disc. Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a burner. Also this solution seemed aimed at fixing a problem in which two drives are detected instead on just one array. As I said Winxp can't see any drives.
There also seems to be a way to repair the problem by installing Winxp on one drive and then using the nvRAIDtool to build the array from the desktop, but I found the directions a bit vague. If anyone knows this method, maybe you could explain it to me.
Any other suggestions are also welcome. I'll keep trying a few more things and try back later.
Thanks