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Yeah thanks for everything. How would I update the RAID BIOS?

I finally gave up on this idea, its just not working. I've gone through an arm load of CDs trying various variations but alas.. Thanks for all your help - and patients.

I did not know, that you have a PataRaid system. In this case take the PATARAID subfolder. As the changes within the txtsetup.oem file were only reported for SataRaid owners, I would propose to let the txtsetup.oem file as it was. So reverse the changes you have made within this file. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hmm, I've already created an Nforce 4 (raid driver) + nforce 3 slipstream disk and it just got stuck in a reboot phase... I'll give it another go and get back to you.. On a related note: Did anyone else using PATA on NF3 see the same problem, could there be a service or driver that I'm installing which could be screwing this up?

Do the following: 1. Take the nForce package 6.66 for WinXPx64 (yes, you can use these drivers for nForce3 systems!) 2. Open the subfolder SATARAID within the path IDE\WinXP. 3. Open the file txtsetup.oem with the editor, go to the section [Files.scsi.BUSDRV] and replace the name nvrdx64.inf by the name nvatax64.inf 4. Store and close the changed file. 5. Now begin to work with nLite 6. Integrate the folder SATARAID from the package 6.66 as TEXTMODE drivers (both drivers which are presented by nLite, should be integrated). 7. Then integrate the other needed nForce3 drivers (SMBus, LAN, Gart etc.), but you have to take these drivers from the package 6.25! The rest can be done as I explained in the first post of this thread. If you have any trouble or if something is not clear, please ask. I will try to help you. Good luck! Fernando <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks very much, do the instructions stay the same whehter or not you are using PATA or SATA? Just to reiterate: I'm using a PATA RAID 0 system. Looking at the TXTOEMsetup file within the PATA folder, all the changes have already been made...

Oh my sweet jesus, I'm having a blonde day... <Kills self> Ignore me

Right I'm merrily making coasters here Okay, the nForce 3 drivers dont contain the same file name sceme the NF4 drivers do. I've created a slipstream disk (under your instructions) for the NF3 disk - didn't work. I tried to take the 64bit PATA-RAID drivers from the NF4 driver set and replace that with the drivers from the NF3 set and recreate the disk - Just going through reboot cycles. This is what I'm doing: Put the 64bit drivers as textmode install various other drivers as realmode Perform various tweaks using Nlite Do the custom manual modifications mentioned by Fernando Burn the disk and test. It usually finishees the setup phase and gets stuck in the all to unambiguous reboot phase.. Has anyone tried this with NF3, what I doing anything wrong? side note: Thanks Fernando for all your help, you're welcome to put my link into your main post if you wish.

What do you mean with these words? I don't really understand. If you have a mainboard with an nForce3 chipset, you can use the 64-bit nForce chipset package 6.25: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_6.25 If you have a mainboard with an nForce4 chipset, you can use the v. 6.66 CU Fernando <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Any thoughts?

What do you mean with these words? I don't really understand. If you have a mainboard with an nForce3 chipset, you can use the 64-bit nForce chipset package 6.25: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_6.25 If you have a mainboard with an nForce4 chipset, you can use the v. 6.66 CU Fernando <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi mate, yeah this is the copy I already had. It contains the nvata.inf files opposed to the 64bit jobbies... Any ideas?

Here is the link to the latest official 64-Bit drivers for nForce4 AMD platforms from NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_wi...4_amd_6.66.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh i'm no NF3 tho

Thank you very much for this Downloadlink, because a lot of people asked me already for this file. 1. Do you mean, that you have files like NVATABUS.XXX instead of NVATAX64.XXX and NVRAID.XXX instead of NVRDX64.XXX? Then you have either wrong (32-Bit) or old (not native 64-Bit) driver packages. 2. nLite Beta5 did not work for me for successfull integration of the nVRaid drivers, nLite Beta6 does not work at all with Windows XP x64. 3. I tried a lot of driver versions, they were all working with nLite Beta4 and the "handmade" changes described in post 1 of this thread. The best nForce SataRaid drivers for me (nForce4 chipset) are actually the ones from the chipset package 6.66. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do you have a link to the drivers you used? [edit] ops a side note: I'm using IDE RAID 0.... Not sata

First of all: http://mnetcs.com/pers/files/nlite1.0b4i.exe Please do not link to this outside of this forum or I'll just remove it and ban the various IPs involved.... secondly: I've just tried this method using the latest nForce drivers from the Nvidia website. The IDE folder contained different files compared to the ones mentioned at the beggining of this thread. ..In short it finished teh installer, goes to the first book and get stuck in a restart loop Anyone had any experience with the latest versions? (of both Nlite and nForce)