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  1. UPDATE: I've tried this a bunch more times... using a variety of different drivers, and still nothing. I do have a new incompatibility, though... My Logitech Harmony remote isn't recognized, either... Can somebody tell me what NOT to do that makes my modified windows install incompatible with my flash drive, external USB hard drive, and my harmony remote? Am I removing part of windows that I shouldn't? I'll leave everything the way it's supposed to be if it'll help; I just remove stuff to make the installs faster.
  2. Define WORSE... Is there any support at all for them? I don't see anyone complaining about Silicon Image chips... but that could be because I keep searching in the NVIDIA-based threads. EDIT: I'd still like to know why neither my USB flash drive nor my USB external hard drive are recognized by nLite'd windows installs... (once or twice they were recognized, but at the expense of some other critical problem, like DEP not allowing me to run any programs whatsoever without "causing damage to my system") Where are these drivers usually stored? Why can't I download them and integrate them specifically? I know on other working machines, the driver details say that windows is using some generically named .sys file ("disk.sys" or something). Am I removing this from nLite when I take out some of the drivers? The author of the software explicitly says if I'm installing drivers later or integrating them, I may check the box. I've gone without removing any of the drivers, and yet I still get the same problem. What gives? I don't mean to bug anyone here... but I haven't solved my problems yet.
  3. 1. ABIT hasn't released a BIOS update since February... I've already got the latest BIOS 2. The problem I'm having happens some time before windows even runs for the first time, therefore before I have the opportunity to install ANY software, let alone the NVIDIA firewall software specifically. Also, I am not trying to integrate the NVIDIA package installer into my windows installation, just the drivers from it, so I am not unknowingly trying to install the NVIDIA Firewall software. 3. Again, the problems I'm having happen before I have a chance to enter the device manager... However, I checked it out in a "bad" install that didn't work perfectly... In the device manager, I have TWO NVIDIA nForce4 controllers each with two channels... one for the raptor & a sata dvd burner, and the other for each of my two RAID hard drives... "Enable command queuing" is grayed-out and disabled on both... So I don't think this is the problem As far as "run your sata drives at sataI level... Why would I buy SATAII drives, and why would I make sure I had a SATAII controller on my motherboard if I was just going to slow it down? I would buy a ferrari just to glue a wooden block under the gas pedal so I couldn't floor it... and I won't buy a SATAII hard drive just to neuter it back to SATAI. (Don't mean to sound harsh... just making a point. ) And why, finally... did my raid array get recognized normally the first few times I tried nLite, and not the 30x after that?
  4. By the way... If all of my problems are because I have my SATA drives connected to an NVIDIA nForce chipset... Would buying a new SATA controller card help? If, for instance, it had a silicon image chip on the new card, wouldn't I no longer have all these problems with NVRAID installation? Also, I have a suspicion that plugging my SATAII (3gbps) drives into a PCI card will not end up in SATAII speed. Would a PCI-Express SATA card be able to handle this? Or is having the chip ON THE MOTHERBOARD the only way I'm going to get SATAII speed?
  5. Thank you so much for your immediate reply... I still have some problems though. I must have windows on the raptor, so I cannot unplug it during installation. The RAID array has all of my backup stuff, such as the My Documents folder, and every picture I've ever taken. The Raptor is what I use for windows, because it's small and fast. I simply cannot format the RAID array and use it for windows, because in doing so, I'd erase everything that I want to keep when reformatting and reinstalling windows. I must have been unclear when I described this problem... When I plug in my external hard drive (not the SATA RAID array) or a USB Flash Drive (a sandisk cruzer w/ U3), it goes into the "Found New Hardware Wizard", and it cannot find any drivers for it. Meaning: Otherwise Plug-N-Play drives require drivers... drivers that I do not have... drivers that are supposed to be part of windows when you install it. Anybody that has a USB Flash drive relies on the fact that all they have to do is plug it in for it to be recognized... These drives are SUPPOSED to be UPnP in Windows XP, but my computer "Cannot Install this Hardware" according to the Found New Hardware Wizard. I cannot get any Flash Drives or USB External Hard Drives to be recognized with a drive letter in my computer... This issue is completely separate from my SATA drives being recognized. A reboot does not help, and interestingly, the "where do you want to install" portion of the windows installation recognizes all three drives (raptor, raid array, and usb)... I would think that if windows recognizes them to install to, they would be recognized after installation. What I was referring to when I said "the first few times I installed nLite, the D: partition was recognized," was the fact that, after the first 2 or 3 nLite installs of windows, both the Raptor and the SATA array were recognized w/o a problem... and I thought everything was perfect until I plugged in my flash drive, and Windows couldn't install it. After the 3rd install or so, and up until this most recent one (I'd estimate to be #30), my D: drive is no longer recognized immediately, and I have to pull the "Compaq SCSI disk array" trick in the Device Manager to get it in Windows Explorer. One other thing that I just remembered... The only time that I can remember that I got all my drives (raptor, sata array, and usb) recognized perfectly, I had turned "Data Execution Protection" on the Unattended tab to "Always On." It was nice being able to recognize all my drives without pulling any tricks... but DEP wouldn't let me do ANYTHING, since even opening Internet Explorer was going to "cause damage to my computer." When I put DEP back to default using the preset config from the disk I had just burned, and ONLY changed the DEP setting... it went right back to not recognizing my sata array or external usb drives. What does Data Execution Protection have to do with recognition of my raid array or usb drives? Thanks again for your immediate response. You seem to be very knowledgable, so I look forward to your next reply.
  6. I can NOT get this to work. I have followed these directions to the best of my ability, too! I currently have this setup: ABIT AN8 Ultra mobo 1x 74GB SATA Raptor as C: Drive 2x 250GB WD SATA drives in 500GB RAID0 array as D: Drive When I add SINGLE drivers w/ the latest version of nLite, and go through nLite setup... I can see the C: drive after windows is installed, but the D: drive is nowhere to be found. To get it recognized, I have to go into the device manager, click "disk drives" find "NVIDIA JBOD" and reinstall the driver. I have to choose Compaq > SCSI Drive Array as the driver to get the dual SATA raid D: drive to show up in windows explorer. At this point, the C: drive DISAPPEARS until I restart. Now... the first few times I ran nLite, the D: partition worked... but I didn't have any support for USB flash drives OR external hard drives. This is very important to me, and so I have tried this over and over and over again. I can not seem to get my RAID array (D:) recognized at the same time as removable drives (USB Flash, external, etc). For some reason, no matter what order I add the drivers, or what drivers I use in general... I can't get support for EITHER any more. I only had luck the first 2 or 3 times I tried it... I'm sure I've done this 30 times or more by now. I'm ready to buy a dedicated SATA RAID card, cuz I think it's all NVIDIA's fault. (nforce4 on mobo) I can fix the D: partition in device manager (although it really bothers me that it doesn't work, and i have to use COMPAQ drivers), but I can't fix the removable drive support. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!
  7. I'm using WinXP x64, and I have done about 15 nlite installs using different combinations of drivers. For some reason, I cannot get my NVIDIA RAID, ATI graphics, Canon MP500 printer/scanner, and Flash/External Hard Drive support to work perfectly. I can install everything except for the flash & usb hard drive support, so everything else isn't that big of a deal. Can someone shed some light on this subject? Please email me @ DrPhantum@adelphia.net with suggestions. I'm using an Abit AN8 Ultra motherboard, and I'm pretty sure I'm integrating all the right drivers. Why do I not have support for USB Flash Drives or External Hard Drives? How can I make sure to integrate these drivers correctly? I am not removing any drivers from the windows install w/ nLite, especially any hard drive/RAID drivers. Also, is there a way to integrate a .net 2.0 install?
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