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Integration of AMD / ATI SB7XX textmode RAID / AHCI drivers on an XP


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Fernando 1, U R a Genius!!!

I followed your instructions by the book and - hooray! Bravo!

The system insisted on reactivation becouse configuration changed and in this case it was a good sign!

Thank you again, good luck and best regards, dear Fernando I !

Serge

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Copy file ahcix86.sys to system32\drivers. Import this reg settings

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1002&cc_0106]
"Service"="ahcix86"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000000
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Tag"=dword:00000021
"ImagePath"="system32\\drivers\\ahcix86.sys"
"Group"="SCSI Miniport"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86\Parameters\PnpInterface]
"5"=dword:00000001

Goto BIOS, set AHCI. Reboot.

I did the steps above, used the drivers that Fernando 1 separated 32bit AMD/ATI SB7xx RAID&AHCI Driver v9-4 (WHQL) and after reboot i have:

NTLDR Is Missing Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart.

I have 1 SATA HDD with Windows XP on it, 1 IDE HDD and 1 IDE DVD

Edited by Dezmond1976
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after reboot i have:

NTLDR Is Missing

That's at early boot stage, there is MBR, partition boot sector involved so far.

There is no windows driver involved so far.

Did you changed anything else?

May be a strange BIOS. Which hardware do you use?

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No i did not.

Motherboard: GIGABYTE / GA-MA770-UD3 / AM2+ / AMD 770 + SB700 Chipset / DDR2 1200 / PCI-E / GLAN / 1394 / ATX

1 SATA:WESTERN DIGITAL / 1TB / WD10EARS / SATA2/ 7200rpm / 64MB/ 300MB/s / 8.9ms /Caviar Green with 3 partition: system, data, pagefile.

1 IDE Maxtor 300GB

1 IDE DVD

Graphic: PCI-E, ATI Radeon HD 4730

and 2G RAM

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1 SATA:WESTERN DIGITAL

1 IDE Maxtor

There are two hard disks.

Does the BIOS change load order and try to boot from IDE hard disk?

As for testing purposes disconnect the IDE hard disk.

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1 SATA:WESTERN DIGITAL

1 IDE Maxtor

There are two hard disks.

Does the BIOS change load order and try to boot from IDE hard disk?

As for testing purposes disconnect the IDE hard disk.

Solved!

It seems like after reboot in bios changed the order of HDD.

Now working fine but it seems like that its need more time to boot.

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It seems like after reboot in bios changed the order of HDD.
Boot order was IDE first.

At IDE emualtion the first hd was the WD SATA hard disk.

At AHCI mode, the first IDE hard disk is the Maxtor. Hence the ntldr not found.

I guess you reconnected the maxtor and changed boot order in the meantime.

Now working fine but it seems like that its need more time to boot.

Yes, there is a time out at ahcix86.sys. The driver wait for late drives.

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  • 1 month later...

specs:

amd p2 x2 555BE

asus m4a78LT-M LE

seagate 4x500gb sata hdd

i needed 2 make a raid 10 setup from the following specs.

i integrated teh raid drivers from the supplied dvd into the xp sp3 setup file using nlite

in the bios, selected raid for the 1st 4 sata ports, adn ide for the remaining 2 sata ports.

in raid options, selected raid 10, selected the 4 hdds, and copleted the raid setup.

then started the installation, the disk got detected,, loaded the raid drivers, formated the hdd.

and the setup started, after loading the files, the system restarted, and the windows starting screen with bar running showed up., ad then BSOD.

wots wrong... tried 2 install 5 times,,,same problem....

help needed urgent..

thanx

angel

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Can you find a way to post the exact BSOD for closer reference?

Edit: Which also got me thinking: this topic is no different that the other two Fernando 1 works on. Is there any special reason why it shouldn't be sticky? Just a thought

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The Day Walker!, the 7B Stop Code says that Setup cannot find the install drive. It is usually a text mode driver problem. Since you did not attach your Last Session, as requested in bold red above, there is not much more I can say. Please attach it and we will take a look. Enjoy, John.

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