[Mitolo]

JuMz, on Aug 22 2005, 05:23 PM, said:

Windows XP Pro x64
AMD FX 57
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra D nF4 Ultra
2) 74g WD Raptor HD RAID 0 10k rpm
4g DDR400 2.5-3-2-5
ATi X850XT PE
ViewSonic LCD VX924 4ms
Home Brewed cooling system

DUDE!! You have 4 gigs of ram?? WHY!?
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cause I can plus if you ask me in no time it will help for games to come right around the corner. And if it dont hell I just stick the crap in another computer. What did they say Windows Vista is going to need for memory

[Fernando 1]

Yesterday I tried to integrate the nForce SataRaid drivers into Windows XP x64 by using the new version of nLite Beta6.
The first test was made without any "handmade changes", the second by using the same method I have described for the 32-Bit version of Windows XP.
Both installations were stopped by an error message at the end of the Textmode part.
Details can be seen here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=383069

Nuhi already knows about these findings.
Maybe he can find a solution for this issue.

If anybody succeeded using nLite Beta6 with XP x64, please report here.

[jimanny]

I have looked high and low for 1.0b4. Anyone know where to find it?

[Fernando 1]

jimanny, on Sep 3 2005, 12:09 PM, said:

I have looked high and low for 1.0b4.  Anyone know where to find it?
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You are right, it's already out of the download page.
Send me a PM with your eMail adress and I will mail it to you.

[ruiner]

Fernando,

This method worked flawlessly on my system. I used version 6.66 drivers and using your method, I had no issues with looping restarts, BSODs, or anything else. This was on an Asus A8NSLI-Premium.

Thanks for working it out!

[TeamMCS]

First of all:

http://mnetcs.com/pe...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)

This post has been edited by TeamMCS: 07 September 2005 - 08:43 AM

[Fernando 1]

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 03:42 PM, said:

First of all:
http://mnetcs.com/pe...nlite1.0b4i.exe

Thank you very much for this Downloadlink, because a lot of people asked me already for this file.

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 03:42 PM, said:

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.
Anyone had any experience with the latest versions? (of both Nlite and nForce

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.

[TeamMCS]

Fernando 1, on Sep 7 2005, 03:03 PM, said:

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 03:42 PM, said:

First of all:
http://mnetcs.com/pe...nlite1.0b4i.exe

Thank you very much for this Downloadlink, because a lot of people asked me already for this file.

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 03:42 PM, said:

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.
Anyone had any experience with the latest versions? (of both Nlite and nForce

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

This post has been edited by TeamMCS: 07 September 2005 - 10:32 AM

[Fernando 1]

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:23 PM, said:

Do you have a link to the drivers you used?
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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

[TeamMCS]

Fernando 1, on Sep 7 2005, 04:33 PM, said:

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:23 PM, said:

Do you have a link to the drivers you used?
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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

[Fernando 1]

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:37 PM, said:

Oh i'm no NF3 tho

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.co...dp_winxp64_6.25

If you have a mainboard with an nForce4 chipset, you can use the v. 6.66

CU
Fernando

[Fernando 1]

Important information for all users, who want to try the method I have described in post 1 of this thread:

nLite 1.0 Beta4 is back on the download page:
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

Thanks, Nuhi!

[TeamMCS]

Fernando 1, on Sep 7 2005, 05:29 PM, said:

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:37 PM, said:

Oh i'm no NF3 tho

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.co...dp_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?

[TeamMCS]

Fernando 1, on Sep 7 2005, 05:29 PM, said:

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:37 PM, said:

Oh i'm no NF3 tho

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.co...dp_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?

[Fernando 1]

TeamMCS, on Sep 8 2005, 11:01 PM, said:

Any thoughts?

What is your problem?
I did not really unterstand you. Please try to explain it as clear as possible (I am a German).

TeamMCS, on Sep 7 2005, 05:23 PM, said:

[edit]
ops a side note: I'm using IDE RAID 0.... Not sata

Then you have to take the PATARAID subfolder.
CU
Fernando

This post has been edited by Fernando 1: 08 September 2005 - 04:24 PM

[tbart]

New to this forum. Two comments.

1) Many thanks to Fernando 1. His nLite 1.0beta4 method for loading nforce SATA raid drivers worked the first time. I am using a gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI mainboard, two new Samsung 160 mb SATA drives in a RAID 0 setup. Latest BIOS (F4) installed. This worked using MS Server 2003 x64 (trial version from MS website). Without Fernando 1's method (given at the top of this thread), I got endless reboots after installation of the OS in a SATA raid 0 setup. Would be happy to give any other details anyone wants.

2) The installation was not quite flawless. I could boot up easily and completely and had a functioning installation but I wound up without a funtioning copy of IE after installation. I think this was probably due to the inadvertant removal of some OS component as I have never used nLite before. Small possibility that something about the beta4 version was involved. It was quicker to simply reload the full version over the initial install than it was to fix the problem and create the perfect nlite ISO. I plan to try this later when I have time.

tbart

[Fernando 1]

tbart, on Sep 9 2005, 02:19 AM, said:

1)  Many thanks to Fernando 1.  His nLite 1.0beta4 method for loading nforce SATA raid drivers worked the first time.  I am using a gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI mainboard, two new Samsung 160 mb SATA drives in a RAID 0 setup.  Latest BIOS (F4) installed.  This worked using MS Server 2003 x64 (trial version from MS website).  Without Fernando 1's method (given at the top of this thread), I got endless reboots after installation of the OS in a SATA raid 0 setup.  Would be happy to give any other details anyone wants.

Thank you for posting these details. It might encourage other users with similar hardware to install XPX64 or W2k3X64 by using nLite.

tbart said:

2)  The installation was not quite flawless.  I could boot up easily and completely and had a functioning installation but I wound up without a funtioning copy of IE after installation.

This might be an issue within nLite Beta4.
Try the following: Boot into W2k3x64, put the original CD (not the nLited one) into your cd player, open start > run and edit the following:
sfc/scannow

Good luck!
Fernando

[TeamMCS]

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.

[Fernando 1]

TeamMCS, on Sep 9 2005, 12:58 PM, said:

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.
Has anyone tried this with NF3, what I doing anything wrong?

Look here:

Fernando 1, on Jul 19 2005, 08:35 PM, said:

It is reported, that users with nForce3 mainboards and Sata Raid systems should do the following, before they integrate the Sata Raid drivers: open the file txtsetup.oem from the folder SATARAID with the editor, go to the section [Files.scsi.BUSDRV] and replace the name nvraid.inf by the name nvatabus.inf).

Good luck!
Fernando

[TeamMCS]

Oh my sweet jesus, I'm having a blonde day...


<Kills self> Ignore me

This post has been edited by TeamMCS: 09 September 2005 - 08:44 AM