[Fernando 1]

invzabomaster, on Jan 17 2008, 07:32 AM, said:

thanks fernando,
i download sp2 and integrated like you said and it all worked out great, no BSOD, thanks for your guide, you're the best dude!!!

Fine, that you succeeded at least.

CU
Fernando

[jimtao]

Fernando,

Your guide worked flawlessly with my new Abit ip35 pro motherboard.

Thanks for your help!

Jim

[kallyn]

Fernando
I need some help from you please. I have a dell 1520 laptop that has ata turned on right now and the properties states that it is an ich8m. When I recieved the machine it was running vista with a AHCI Enabled. Since then I have turned AHCI off and installed xp Pro and vista. I have a hard drive and a blueray burner on it and would like to reenable AHCI. I downloaded the available textmode drivers from dell and used nlite to integrate them. It is not currently finding my drive when I turn ahci back on and when windows is loading I never get anything that says that it is trying to install any of the drivers that I am adding. Should the driver description show up on the bottom when they are loading? Also researching the slipstreaming I know that youa re supposed to put them in specific folders and edit boot scripts and stuff. Does Nlite do this stuff for me, and if so where do i look to confirm proper installation so that I can rule out hardware vs. software problems. Thanks

[Fernando 1]

kallyn, on Jan 23 2008, 03:26 AM, said:

I have a dell 1520 laptop that has ata turned on right now and the properties states that it is an ich8m. When I recieved the machine it was running vista with a AHCI Enabled. Since then I have turned AHCI off and installed xp Pro and vista. I have a hard drive and a blueray burner on it and would like to reenable AHCI. I downloaded the available textmode drivers from dell and used nlite to integrate them.

Why didn't you integrate the drivers I have recommended and linked within my guide? You should highlight just the Intel ® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M), when you see the textmode driver popup while preparing your nLited XP CD Image.

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It is not currently finding my drive when I turn ahci back on and when windows is loading I never get anything that says that it is trying to install any of the drivers that I am adding.

It probably did not find your hdd, because you loaded the wrong Intel textmode driver (SATA RAID instead of SATA AHCI).

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Should the driver description show up on the bottom when they are loading?

Yes, you should see just for a moment, that the file IASTOR.SYS is being loaded during the first (=textmode) part of the OS installation. When you have integrated the correct Intel SATA AHCI driver for ICH8M chipsets, your hdd will be detected after having loaded all textmode drivers.

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Also researching the slipstreaming I know that youa re supposed to put them in specific folders and edit boot scripts and stuff. Does Nlite do this stuff for me, and if so where do i look to confirm proper installation so that I can rule out hardware vs. software problems.

Everything is done by nLite automaticly. You can verify the proper installation of the hardware and the associated drivers by looking into the device manager after having completed the OS installation.

This post has been edited by Fernando 1: 23 January 2008 - 04:50 AM

[basics]

I`ve been doing all the steps from your guide, but i keep getting some unusual problem . So i finished doing all the steps, but when i actually try to boot from the minidvd, the monitor is completly black and no progress can be made, just the cursor appear... any thoughts?
I now found that it doesn`t see it as a bootable dvd... i wonder why, since i did specify to be one

OK, problem solved. I selected from nlite direct burn, which was suppose to make the cd bootable but it didn`t. Then i just use Create ISO and after i burned the image, this one was bootable.

This post has been edited by basics: 10 February 2008 - 06:34 AM

[Lancelot_Real]

Fernando 1

Thanks a lot

i had a similar problem abaut ich8 and by adding
; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel® 82801HB SATA AHCI Controller"

lines to iaahci.inf nearrly solved the problem. (a hugeeee step, thanks to you)

I am using Asus P5B (normal P5B :>) with 2 disks raid0 (jmicron) + 1 disk ich8.
when i was installing ahci to my sytem (2003 64 for personal use) i showed ich9 to system and everything worked fine.
(note: P5B has 2 chipsets, jmicron + ich8 )

BUT

when i try to use BartPE, problem began. BartPE easily see my jmicron raid0 disks and a friend's ich9r raid0 disks and another friend's ich9 ahci disk, no problem.
But when i enable ahci on my 3rd disk (ich8) , BartPE had no way to see the drive.

now by adding these lines you gave to iaahci.inf:
BartPE still start with not seeing 3rd drive, but now i can use "install new devices" program to make BartPE find the Ahci enabled 3rd drive. (i put it on startup, so BartPE now install 3rd disk with ahci drive but without drive letters on startup)

After that, i use paragon partition manager to assign drive letters.

Now i am looking for a program to assign unassigned drive letters automatically.
or do u know a way to reassign letters. (by restarting a program or service :> or by uninstalling and installing sth from xp.)

there seems to be 2 solutions for the problem:
1) from txtsetup.sif
or
2) automatic drive letter assignement


If you dont know anything about BartPe, a little introduction:
BartPe have very much similarities with Unattended XP, I first learned Unattended XP so i had no problems understanding BartPE.
BartPE creates a txtsetup.sif and put driver informations in it.
by making changes you mentioned before, i made a txtsetup.sif but it didnt work for me. (for solution 1)
http://rapidshare.de...up.sif.rar.html

for BartPE web site: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/


its my first message to msfn.org, :>, i learned unattended installation 4 years ago from here, and step by step now its the place i came. (i started to write instead of read :>) I wanted to give a good rescue cd to my country man that doesn't now english, everthing is ready except this small bug in BartPE. (when its ready, i will convert it to english :>)
http://forum.donanim...20801405/tm.htm


thanks again for your help.


note: I hope you will smile as me with the similarities between configurations.
My Current System: Asus P5B (Intel Broadwater P965 )(Bios:P5B-ASUS-1604.ROM) (Rev 1.04G) // 2x250 GB Samsung SP2504C S-ATA II as Raid0 jmicron // 1x400 GB Seagate ST3400620AS NCQ S-ATA II // Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2Ghz (10 x 200) // 2x1 GB DDR2 PC2-6400 (400*2=800Mhz) Kingston RAM (KTC1G-UDIMM) // Asus 512MB Extreme Silent Magic N8500GT (PCI-E) // Aopen 350 W powersupply
My Asus P5B information page: http://forum.pcbilgi...php?topic=778.0

[Fernando 1]

@ Lancelot Real:

I am sorry, that I cannot help you due to the lack of any experience with BartPE.
Furthermore I have no idea how to solve your drive letter problem.
All your difficulties probably have something to do with the fact, that the Intel ICH8 Controller (without R or M) natively doesn't support AHCI.

CU
Fernando

[Lancelot_Real]

Fernando 1:

i am not sure if
Intel 82801HB ICH8
has native or non native support for ahci. As i write before, i know that i can enable ahci from bios.

anyway; thanks for answer, and iaahci.inf lines.

This post has been edited by Lancelot_Real: 14 February 2008 - 12:21 PM

[jaclaz]

Lancelot_Real, on Feb 14 2008, 03:59 PM, said:

BartPE still start with not seeing 3rd drive, but now i can use "install new devices" program to make BartPE find the Ahci enabled 3rd drive. (i put it on startup, so BartPE now install 3rd disk with ahci drive but without drive letters on startup)

After that, i use paragon partition manager to assign drive letters.

Now i am looking for a program to assign unassigned drive letters automatically.
or do u know a way to reassign letters. (by restarting a program or service :> or by uninstalling and installing sth from xp.)

You can use MOUNTVOL command.

This can be included in a batch file, if you use also vlm, part of the DSFOK toolkit here:
http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware
you can easily select the drive from it's label or Symbolic link.

just run:
MOUNTVOL >C:\Mountvol.txt

and

VLM >C:\vlm.txt

to see which output they produce, then read "between the lines" of this:
http://www.uwe-siebe...usbstick_e.html
and get the good ol' mnt / unmount:
http://www.uwe-siebe...les/unmnt10.zip

If you search on the board, you should find a number of posts about batches using MOUNTVOL to determine drive letters.

jaclaz

[Lancelot_Real]

jaclaz :
thanks for help, i read a lot through the links you gave, but couldn't suceed from them.
after that i forced myself to make a search again, an attt last i find the program i need.
"Mount Storage PE" from
http://www.kare-net.de/Plugins.htm


here is a summary what i did in BartPE for google searchers:
BartPE not assigning drive letters problem solution:
(I found the solultion from my problem; BartPE not assigning ICH8 ahci enabled disk , i think it will work for assigning drive letter for usb flash and usb externals disks too)

1) i put ahci driver from intel v7.8.0.1012 to driver folder.
2) i added lines to iaahci.inf as Fernando 1 wrote before. here are them:

; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel® 82801HB SATA AHCI Controller"

3) i put hwpnp utility to BartPE (a plugin from Sherpya that searchs plug&play devices)
4) i put "Mount Storage PE"

5) i made a command file and put it on startup, here is what i wrote:
start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\HWPnp.exe +all /log /p /d
start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\MountStorPe.exe -h

6) I made a shortcut of this command line to bartpe in case of a need of pluging a new disk.


for regular users of assigning drive letter problems 3, 4, 5, 6th steps are enough. Step 1, 2 are solution for ICH8 82801HB.

Thanks to "Fernando 1" again, i coulnt solve this problem for 6 months (since i bought my new mainboard) and if "Fernando 1" didnt wrote down the ICH8 82801HB solution for unattended installation of Windows I still won't solve the problem. At last its solved.

ADD (20080709):
with better written adds to iaahci.inf and txtsetup.oem (2nd step improvement) 3, 4, 5, 6th steps are no needed anymore, i posted a copy here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Integration-of-I...192#entry779192
also look here if you want to do yourself:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7582

LiveXP users, look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Integration-of-I...050#entry779050

This post has been edited by Lancelot_Real: 08 July 2008 - 06:11 PM

[Fernando 1]

Lancelot_Real, on Feb 15 2008, 12:29 AM, said:

after that i forced myself to make a search again, an attt last i find the program i need.
"Mount Storage PE" from
http://www.kare-net.de/Plugins.htm

here is a summary what i did in BartPE for google searchers:
BartPE not assigning drive letters problem solution:
(I found the solultion from my problem; BartPE not assigning ICH8 ahci enabled disk , i think it will work for assigning drive letter for usb flash and usb externals disks too)
1) i put ahci driver from intel v7.8.0.1012 to driver folder.
2) i added lines to iaahci.inf as Fernando 1 wrote before. here are them:
; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
; ICH8
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Inst, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel® 82801HB SATA AHCI Controller"
3) i put hwpnp utility to BartPE (a plugin from Sherpya that searchs plug&play devices)
4) i put "Mount Storage PE"
5) i made a command file and put it on startup, here is what i wrote:
start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\HWPnp.exe +all /log /p /d
start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\MountStorPe.exe -h
6) I made a shortcut of this command line to bartpe in case of a need of pluging a new disk.

for regular users of assigning drive letter problems 3, 4, 5, 6th steps are enough. Step 1, 2 are solution for ICH8 82801HB.

Fine, that you have solved your problem and thanks for giving us a step-by-step description how you succeeded.
This will help other users with a similar problem.

CU
Fernando

[jaclaz]

Lancelot_Real, on Feb 15 2008, 12:29 AM, said:

jaclaz :
thanks for help, i read a lot through the links you gave, but couldn't suceed from them.
after that i forced myself to make a search again, an attt last i find the program i need.
"Mount Storage PE" from
http://www.kare-net.de/Plugins.htm

Main thing is that problem is solved!

Happy about that.

jaclaz

[lamkius]

Hi, I have followed this guide and after completing isntall (after reboot) I got blue screan error. It's saying that I should remove any newly installed hdd or hdd controller..
any ideas ?




thanks.

[Fernando 1]

lamkius, on Feb 17 2008, 03:16 PM, said:

Hi, I have followed this guide and after completing isntall (after reboot) I got blue screan error. It's saying that I should remove any newly installed hdd or hdd controller..
any ideas ?

You should give us some informations about your system (mainboard, chipset, sort of hdd's etc.) and what you have done.

[zabardast_1]

Fernando 1
hey
Thanks ! grrrrr8 guide,but I have an old Gigabyte GA-8Ik1100(Rev2) motherboard with "ICH5R" 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER',well,uptill now,I have been installing the Sata drivers via 'F6' method during installation of windows. But now lately the 'Floppy Drive' gave up on me and its not possible to get the sata drivers installed by this method,so I thought it wud be grrrr8 to slipstream them into the installation Cd.
Well,now,all the files in download links provided by you and Intel 'Matrix Storage Driver' do not seem to include support for 'ICH5R',it all support for ICH6 and upwards.How and where,I can get 'Iastor' files supporting ICH5R.
However,I have even tried to extract them from the installation Disc provided with my Motherboard,but they only get extracted to a 'floppy' drive,which,I can't do.
Plz help me with this and either provide the Sata Raid drivers for ICH5R 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER' in extracted file or give me a link from where to download.

Secondly,guide me also how to extract the network LAN and Intel infinst_auto too chipset drivers ? Although I have tried,but after ectraction 'nlite' doesn't seem to detect them.
Thanks !
Have a nice day l

[Lancelot_Real]

zabardast_1
1a)
for ICH5R 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER' use drivers from here:
http://www.nu2.nu/pe...vers/iastor.zip
and wait for "Fernando 1"'s reply, "Fernando 1"may have better solution for this situation.
(maybe addin line to inf file )

1b)
In Bios, you can change your sata disk mode from ahci to ide (or compatible) before installing windows, so you wont need nlite or diskette. (for sata disk problem (in fact ahci enabled sata disk problem) i prefer this way). If u use raid and dont have diskette, you have to use nlite method.

2)
network LAN should be easy, use the regular way to add your network LAN driver.
chipset drivers; "Fernando 1" may have better way than My method of addin chipset drivers, wait for his answer.

I hope i could help.

[zabardast_1]

Lancelot_Real, on Mar 3 2008, 12:08 AM, said:

zabardast_1
1a)
for ICH5R 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER' use drivers from here:
http://www.nu2.nu/pe...vers/iastor.zip
and wait for "Fernando 1"'s reply, "Fernando 1"may have better solution for this situation.
(maybe addin line to inf file )

1b)
In Bios, you can change your sata disk mode from ahci to ide (or compatible) before installing windows, so you wont need nlite or diskette. (for sata disk problem (in fact ahci enabled sata disk problem) i prefer this way). If u use raid and dont have diskette, you have to use nlite method.

2)
network LAN should be easy, use the regular way to add your network LAN driver.
chipset drivers; "Fernando 1" may have better way than My method of addin chipset drivers, wait for his answer.

I hope i could help.

Hey !
Thanks for your kind help,I really appreciate it,although , I had managed to extract the Sata drivers from the Intel 'iata55_enu.exe' package with using command line 'Command Prompt' way and did the same with for extraction of INF driver from 'infinst_autol.exe' and very comfortably integrated with nlite.Well,the integration of Network LAN driver was very simple method...
But I appreciate your kind help and thanks for the download link for 'iastor.zip'
Yes ! I know about 'disabling sata controller' in the bios and installing on IDE, but wanted to get sata raid.
Have a nice day !

[Fernando 1]

zabardast_1, on Mar 2 2008, 11:46 AM, said:

Thanks ! grrrrr8 guide,but I have an old Gigabyte GA-8Ik1100(Rev2) motherboard with "ICH5R" 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER',well,uptill now,I have been installing the Sata drivers via 'F6' method during installation of windows. But now lately the 'Floppy Drive' gave up on me and its not possible to get the sata drivers installed by this method,so I thought it wud be grrrr8 to slipstream them into the installation Cd.
Well,now,all the files in download links provided by you and Intel 'Matrix Storage Driver' do not seem to include support for 'ICH5R',it all support for ICH6 and upwards.How and where,I can get 'Iastor' files supporting ICH5R.
However,I have even tried to extract them from the installation Disc provided with my Motherboard,but they only get extracted to a 'floppy' drive,which,I can't do.
Plz help me with this and either provide the Sata Raid drivers for ICH5R 'INTEL® 82801ER SATA RAID CONTROLLER' in extracted file or give me a link from where to download.

Thanks for your post.
You are right - the recent INTEL Matrix Storage Manager package doesn't support ICH5R SATA RAID Controllers. To help future users with such RAID Controllers I have added a new download link to the already extracted "newest" ICH5R SATA RAID drivers dated 10/12/2005.

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Secondly,guide me also how to extract the network LAN and Intel infinst_auto too chipset drivers ? Although I have tried,but after ectraction 'nlite' doesn't seem to detect them.

You obviously got them already installed.

Thanks for your request and thanks to Lancelot_Real for his help!

By the way: It would be no problem for me to add the HardwareID's of the INTEL ICH5R SATA RAID Controllers into the newest Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers packages, but by doing this the drivers would loose their WHQL stamps for all users. That is why I have uploaded the original WHQL signed ICH5R RAID drivers separately.

CU
Fernando

[zabardast_1]

Fernando

Hey !
Thanks m8 for the reply and updating the first post and download links,which now include a complete range for Intel Sata raid drivers package,now you don't have to search for the required driver anywhere else.it had certainly made the job easy

Well,as an info,I wud ask for your advise,if it'll be advisable to integrate all the Intel Sata raid drivers in the winxp source,so that,when ever you replace your motherboard,you don't have to integrate the specified driver again. I ask as I'm going to update my system soon. Infact,wud it be possible for you to build a package of all the Sata raid drivers for all the raid controllers like Promise,Gigabyte,Intel.....etc..etc,and integrate once for all.

Have a nice day !

[Fernando 1]

zabardast_1, on Mar 3 2008, 03:34 PM, said:

Fernando
Hey !
Thanks m8 for the reply and updating the first post and download links,which now include a complete range for Intel Sata raid drivers package,now you don't have to search for the required driver anywhere else.it had certainly made the job easy

It makes me happy, when I can help others.

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Well,as an info,I wud ask for your advise,if it'll be advisable to integrate all the Intel Sata raid drivers in the winxp source,so that,when ever you replace your motherboard,you don't have to integrate the specified driver again. I ask as I'm going to update my system soon.

This should be no problem at all (unless you change from a 32bit OS to a 64bit OS), because all actual Intel S-ATA Controllers are using exactly the same driver named IASTOR.SYS and the same information files. All you have to do is enabling all Controllers during the Intel textmode driver integration.

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Infact,wud it be possible for you to build a package of all the Sata raid drivers for all the raid controllers like Promise, Gigabyte, Intel.....etc..etc, and integrate once for all.

It would be possible, but I wouldn't do that.
Reason: Users want the newest/best drivers and a small sized OS CD. Both things are not possible by creating and integrating an AIO textmode driver package.
1. It would take a lot of time to search and to collect the actual textmode drivers of all storage controller chips, that ever have been manufactured. As soon as you have them all together, you have to start again from scratch, because there are already new ones out.
2. An AIO textmode driver package would have a big size, which has to be integrated into the OS CD/DVD, although each user will only need just 1 single driver of this big package.

Have a nice day too!
Fernando