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Hi dale5605

I have done that and integrated the drivers, and it has gave me two options to integrate which I told nlite to do both, and as a result have two entries in the driver list that are both text mode.

I know this is correct, and I also removed raidtool before too.

Just making the iso now, will report back in 20mins :)

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Nope, no good :realmad:

[Main]
Env = 1.0 RC2 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Target = Windows XP Professional Sp2 - build 2180 - English (United States)

[Tasks]
Integrate a Service Pack
Remove Components
Unattended Setup
Integrate Drivers
Integrate Hotfixes
Patches
Tweaks
Create a Bootable ISO

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
Charmap
ClipBook Viewer
Games
Internet Games
NT Backup
Paint
Pinball
Wordpad
;# Drivers #
Display Adapters (old)
;# Hardware Support #
Brother Devices
Smart Cards
;# Languages #
;- Keyboard
Albanian keyboard
Arabic (101) keyboard
Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard
Arabic (102) keyboard
Armenian Eastern keyboard
Armenian Western keyboard
Azeri Cyrillic keyboard
Azeri Latin keyboard
Belarusian keyboard
Belgian (Comma) keyboard
Belgian (Period) keyboard
Belgian French keyboard
Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard
Bulgarian keyboard
Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard
Canadian French keyboard
Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard
Croatian keyboard
Czech (QWERTY) keyboard
Czech keyboard
Czech Programmers keyboard
Danish keyboard
Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard
Divehi Phonetic keyboard
Divehi Typewriter keyboard
Dutch keyboard
Estonian keyboard
Faeroese keyboard
Farsi keyboard
Finnish keyboard
French keyboard
FYRO Macedonian keyboard
Gaelic keyboard
Georgian keyboard
German (IBM) keyboard
German keyboard
Greek (220) keyboard
Greek (220) Latin keyboard
Greek (319) keyboard
Greek (319) Latin keyboard
Greek keyboard
Greek Latin keyboard
Greek Polytonic keyboard
Gujarati keyboard
Hebrew keyboard
Hindi Traditional keyboard
Hungarian 101-key keyboard
Hungarian keyboard
Icelandic keyboard
Irish keyboard
Italian (142) keyboard
Italian keyboard
Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard
Japanese keyboard
Kannada keyboard
Kazakh keyboard
Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard
Korean keyboard
Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard
Latin American keyboard
Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard
Latvian keyboard
Lithuanian IBM keyboard
Lithuanian keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Polish (214) keyboard
Polish (Programmers) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard
Portuguese keyboard
Punjabi keyboard
Romanian keyboard
Russian (Typewriter) keyboard
Russian keyboard
Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard
Serbian (Latin) keyboard
Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard
Slovak keyboard
Slovenian keyboard
Spanish keyboard
Spanish Variation keyboard
Swedish keyboard
Swiss French keyboard
Swiss German keyboard
Syriac keyboard
Syriac Phonetic keyboard
Tamil keyboard
Tatar keyboard
Telugu keyboard
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Kedmanee keyboard
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Pattachote keyboard
Turkish F keyboard
Turkish Q keyboard
Ukrainian keyboard
United Kingdom keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
United States-International keyboard
Urdu keyboard
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard
Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard
Vietnamese keyboard
;Arabic
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (U.A.E.)
Arabic (Yemen)
Divehi (Maldives)
Syriac (Syria)
Urdu
;Armenian
Armenian
;Baltic
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
;Central Europe
Albanian
Croatian
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian (Latin)
Slovak
Slovenian
;Cyrillic
Azeri (Cyrillic)
Belarusian
Bulgarian
FYRO Macedonian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
Mongolian (Mongolia)
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Tatar
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
;Georgian
Georgian
;Greek
Greek
;Hebrew
Hebrew
;Indic
Gujarati (India)
Hindi
Kannada (India)
Konkani
Marathi
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Simplified Chinese
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Singapore)
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Traditional Chinese
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)
Chinese (Taiwan)
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;Western Europe and United States
Afrikaans
Basque
Catalan
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (Australia)
English (Belize)
English (Canada)
English (Caribbean)
English (Ireland)
English (Jamaica)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (Trinidad)
English (Zimbabwe)
Faeroese
Finnish
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Luxembourg)
French (Monaco)
French (Switzerland)
Galician (Spain)
German (Austria)
German (Germany)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
Malay (Malaysia)
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Bolivia)
Spanish (Chile)
Spanish (Colombia)
Spanish (Costa Rica)
Spanish (Dominican Republic)
Spanish (Ecuador)
Spanish (El Salvador)
Spanish (Guatemala)
Spanish (Honduras)
Spanish (International Sort)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Nicaragua)
Spanish (Panama)
Spanish (Paraguay)
Spanish (Peru)
Spanish (Puerto Rico)
Spanish (Traditional Sort)
Spanish (Uruguay)
Spanish (Venezuela)
Swahili
Swedish
Swedish (Finland)
;# Multimedia #
Media Center
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Tablet PC
;# Network #
MSN Explorer
Web Folders
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
File and Settings Wizard
Framework
Search Assistant
Tour
Web View
Zip Folders
;# Services #
Windows Time
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe

[RemoveFiles]
blastcln.exe
clock.avi

[Options]
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "WINDOWS"
AdvTweaks
;#ISO maker#
isovol = WinLite
isoatt = -allow-multidot -relaxed-filenames -allow-leading-dots -N -l -d -D -joliet-long -duplicates-once -no-emul-boot -b boot.bin -hide boot.bin -hide boot.catalog

[Patches]
TcpIp = 10
UsbPoll = 125
DoUxTheme
DoSFC

[Services]
Themes,2
AppMgmt,3
AudioSrv,2
CiSvc,3
CryptSvc,2
ERSvc,2
EventLog,2
HidServ,4
NDProxy,3
NetDDE,4
NetDDEdsdm,4
Netman,3
PlugPlay,2
ProtectedStorage,2
RemoteRegistry,2
SamSs,2
SCardDrv,3
seclogon,2
SENS,4
SysmonLog,3
TapiSrv,3
TrkWks,2
UPS,3
VSS,3
Wmi,3
LanmanWorkstation,2
RasAuto,3
RasMan,3
RemoteAccess,4
IpFilterDriver,3
IpInIp,3
IpNat,3
NwlnkFlt,3
NwlnkFwd,3
SharedAccess,3
ALG,3
DHCP,2
DNSCACHE,2
PolicyAgent,2
NLA,3
LMHosts,2
Alerter,3
Browser,2
NetLogon,3
Messenger,2
RpcLocator,3
NtLmSsp,3
LanmanServer,2
DcomLaunch,2
HTTP,3
HTTPFilter,3
xmlprov,3
Ip6Fw,3

[Tweaks]
;# Boot & Shutdown #
Auto-End Tasks
Auto-Kill Hung Apps
Auto-Kill Hung Services
Applaunch & Boot enabled Setup Prefetch-Cache
;# Desktop,Taskbar & Startmenu #
Hide Internet Explorer icon
Show My Computer icon
None Status Messages
;# Explorer #
Add CMD SHELL:> to all Drives and Folders
Advanced Search: preconfigure options
Classic Control Panel
Disable Autorun
Disable Beep on errors
Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
Disable shortcut arrow
Remove Send To on context menu
Show extensions of known file-types
;# Internet Explorer #
Disable Internet Explorer link creation
Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks
Disable Outlook Express link creation
Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects a time
;# My Computer #
Add Device Manager to Context Menu
Add Drive Cleanup to Context Menu
Add Services to Context Menu
Add Software to Context Menu
Show details in Device Manager
;# Privacy #
Disable and Remove Documents List from Start Menu
Disable Logging of executed programs
Disable User Process Tracking
Remove Alexa Spyware
;# Speed #
Disable Optimize harddisk when idle
;# Start Menu #
Disable Highlight newly installed programs
Disable popup on first boot
Expand Control Panel
Reduce popup delay
Remove Search the Internet from Search
Remove Windows Catalog from Start Menu
;# Taskbar #
Disable Language-Bar
;# Windows Media Player #
Disable auto-add music to library
Disable starting with Media Guide
Optimize fullscreen mode behaviour
Remove all context menu entries
Zoom video to windowsize

[Unattended]
UnattendMode = FullUnattended
ComputerType = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC
ProgFilesPath = "C:\Program Files"
HibernationNo
FirewallOff
Resolution = 1280x1024
BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color)
Vrefresh = 60 Hz
DisableSRestore
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
IISInstall = 1
DataExecProt = 0

[Drivers]
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\IDE\WinXP\nvatabus.inf,BUSDRV
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\IDE\WinXP\nvatabus.inf,RAIDCLASS
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\SMBus\nvsmbus.inf,0
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\MemCtl\nvmemctl.inf,0
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\GART\nv_agp.inf,0
E:\My Documents\nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql\Ethernet\nvenetfd.inf,0
E:\ManXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\04_Sound\CMHiTec.INF,0
E:\ManXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\05_GPU\CX_27256.inf,0
E:\ManXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\06_WDM\atixpwdm.inf,0
E:\ManXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\08_Monitor\VP171s-2.inf,0

[Hotfixes]
E:\UXPCD_Files\ProgramAddonsNETFramework.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\ProgramAddonsAdobe.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\ProgramAddonsJava.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\RVMUpdatePack2.0.0.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\RVMAddonsWMP10_1.3.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\UnO_StartupCPL-v1.0_addon.cab
E:\UXPCD_Files\Kel_TweakUI_Addon_v1.1.cab

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Nope, no good :realmad:
Hi Mekrel,

you have copied the whole content of your SETTINGS.INI with all removed languages into your post (a simple file attachment would have saved a lot of space), but you did not mention at all what happened during the install of the nLited XP CD.

If you want help, you should answer to the followng questions:

1. Is your Raid array "healthy" (look at the second boot screen)?

2. At which part did the installation fail?

3. What happened exactly?

4. Has your Raid array been detected correctly during textmode part of the installation?

Now a few words to the "brandnew" nForce3 driver package 5.11 you have used:

The IDE drivers are exactly the same as within the 5.10 package NVIDIA had published last year. The only new component within the 5.11 package are the ethernet drivers and they have nothing to do with Sata and Raid drivers.

CU

Fernando

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Nope, no good :realmad:

Hi Mekrel,

you have copied the whole content of your SETTINGS.INI with all removed languages into your post (a simple file attachment would have saved a lot of space), but you did not mention at all what happened during the install of the nLited XP CD.

If you want help, you should answer to the followng questions:

1. Is your Raid array "healthy" (look at the second boot screen)?

2. At which part did the installation fail?

3. What happened exactly?

4. Has your Raid array been detected correctly during textmode part of the installation?

Now a few words to the "brandnew" nForce3 driver package 5.11 you have used:

The IDE drivers are exactly the same as within the 5.10 package NVIDIA had published last year. The only new component within the 5.11 package are the ethernet drivers and they have nothing to do with Sata and Raid drivers.

CU

Fernando

Sorry, I will recorrect that in a second :)

1. Yes my Raid Array is healthy

2. The installtion of windows does not even start, it tells me setup cannot continue as Windows could not find any hard disks

3. Windows loads the drivers, as the Nvidia drivers flash up when its loading the txtmode drivers. Then it says its loading windows, then it tells me that it could not find any hard disks and I can only press F3

4. No, thats the problem it will not detect the raid array although I know the hardware is setup correctly as if I do it via F6 - it works :)

Well I didnt know it was only the ethernet, I didnt check the 5.10 driver versions but as long as they are WHQL and they fix the net dropping in a few games then its fine :)

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3. Windows loads the drivers, as the Nvidia drivers flash up when its loading the txtmode drivers. Then it says its loading windows, then it tells me that it could not find any hard disks and I can only press F3

4. No, thats the problem it will not detect the raid array although I know the hardware is setup correctly as if I do it via F6 - it works :)

Thank you for your post.

New questions:

1. Do you only have 2 hard disk drives? If you have more, what sort (SATA/IDE)?

2. Which sort of controller is used by these hard disk drives (nForce Sata controller or nForce IDE Controller)?

3. Have you enabled these controllers within your BIOS?

3. Did you select both required drivers nLite proposed to integrate as textmode drivers (NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER)?

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My current NVIDIA drivers pack contains :

This nForce Win2K/XP driver package contains the below components:

* Taken from many original nForce packages by NVIDIA
(SATA_IDE INF was modified from scratch by me)

Audio utility version 4.51
Ethernet NRM driver version 5.09 (WHQL)
Network management tools version 5.09
SMBus driver version 4.50 (WHQL)
Installer version 4.93
Win2K IDE SATARAID driver version 6.22 (WHQL)
Win2K IDE SATA_IDE driver version 6.22 (WHQL)
Win2K RAIDTOOL application version 6.22
WinXP IDE SATARAID driver version 6.22 (WHQL)
WinXP IDE SATA_IDE driver version 6.22 (WHQL)
WinXP RAIDTOOL application version 6.22

* Added from leaked nForce beta packages
Audio driver version 4.64 (WHQL)
GART driver version 4.40 (WHQL)
Memory controller driver version 4.40 (WHQL)

* Added from original ForceWare beta package by NVIDIA
Display driver (ForceWare) version 81.87

I tested it on NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb and NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra. The IDE/Legacy folder is currently not needed, but I think without it PATA RAID couldn't work. The latest Ethernet NRM 50.09 is not included because it doesn't seems to work. Perhaps it works only on nForce 410/430 southbridge.

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My current NVIDIA drivers pack contains :

.

.

I tested it on NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb and NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra. The IDE/Legacy folder is currently not needed, but I think without it PATA RAID couldn't work.

I don't know exactly what you want to say with your post. Did you succeed with the integration of the nForce SataRaid drivers by using your special mix? Do you have an nForce SataRaid or an nForce PataRaid system?

If you want to help Mekrel, you should explain, what you have done before you integrated the SataRaid drivers. Important may even be, what you have done with the SATA_IDE.INF and where you have got all those different drivers from.

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3. Windows loads the drivers, as the Nvidia drivers flash up when its loading the txtmode drivers. Then it says its loading windows, then it tells me that it could not find any hard disks and I can only press F3

4. No, thats the problem it will not detect the raid array although I know the hardware is setup correctly as if I do it via F6 - it works :)

Thank you for your post.

New questions:

1. Do you only have 2 hard disk drives? If you have more, what sort (SATA/IDE)?

2. Which sort of controller is used by these hard disk drives (nForce Sata controller or nForce IDE Controller)?

3. Have you enabled these controllers within your BIOS?

3. Did you select both required drivers nLite proposed to integrate as textmode drivers (NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER)?

1. I have 3 Hard drives, and all of them are SATA. The board has 4 SATA ports and I am currently using port 1 for my stoarage drive and ports 3 and 4 for the raid (3 and 4 because they are locked for when I overclock, im at stock at the moment)

2. Well this is one part im alittle confused about, 2 of the ports are the nvidia ones (which I think are ports 1 and 2) and the 2 other ports (3 and 4) are Marvell SATA PHY ports. The weird thing is, Ive never seen any drivers for these SATA ports, so I think they dont need their own drivers and they are covered by the nforce ones.

3. Yes, all my controllers are enabled, but I will go and scan my bios now. They must be enabled for the raid to boot from, but its worth a check.

4. Yes, I selected both the Raid class controller and storage controller, they both have (required) after them :)

Edit: Still no good, all my bios settings are 100% correct....

Edited by Mekrel
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1. I have 3 Hard drives, and all of them are SATA. The board has 4 SATA ports and I am currently using port 1 for my stoarage drive and ports 3 and 4 for the raid (3 and 4 because they are locked for when I overclock, im at stock at the moment)

2. Well this is one part im alittle confused about, 2 of the ports are the nvidia ones (which I think are ports 1 and 2) and the 2 other ports (3 and 4) are Marvell SATA PHY ports. The weird thing is, Ive never seen any drivers for these SATA ports, so I think they dont need their own drivers and they are covered by the nforce ones.

These 2 points seem to be the critical ones. If you really use 2 different Sata Controllers at the same time, you will get trouble.

My suggestion: Unplug your Sata hard disk from Port 1 und try to install the OS only by using the Ports 3 and 4. If you succeed, you can add the third Sata hard disk.

After having googled, I found this:

Utility Image for nVidia and Marvell SATA RAID for NF3 board under Windows XP. 
Remarks:
1. Installation at booting stage is required if you intend to boot from SATA RAID. Please check user's manual for installation.
2. This image is not required if you just take SATA HDDs as non-RAID devices.
3. If you need SATA RAID but don’t take SATA RAID as booting device, please install RAID driver from driver CD under Windows operating system. This utility is not required.

You can find it here:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/dri..._FLAG=A&SITE=US

CU

Fernando

EDIT:

I think the best thing is to copy de /IDE/WinXP/sata_ide/nvata.cat to /IDE/WinXP/sataraid/nvatabus.cat

As the nvata.sys and nvatabus.sys seems to be the same file, the WHQL certificate of the former could work for the latter.

http://mei.planet-d.net/nf_ide_622.rar here is my 6.22 IDE folder already "patched" ... If anyone want to test. ;)

Thank you for your help and the download link for your special driver mix, unless I don't think, that the missing WHQL certificate of the NVATABUS.SYS is the reason for Mekrel's problem. My system (nForce4+2xSata2 as Raid0) is working flawlessly without any WHQL-certified NVATABUS.SYS.

Nevertheless answers to the following questions might be interesting for us all:

Is your special driver mix suitable for all nForce chipsets (nForce2, nForce3 and nForce4)?

How is it possible to copy the NVATA.CAT into the NVATABUS.CAT? I have never seen a file named NVATABUS.CAT. (EDIT: Now I have seen this file NVATABUS.CAT within your driver package. The correct name is NVATA.CAT)

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Well I finally got it to work, but not using nlite although I think that nlite would have worked too.

because it was not clear what was causing it to fail, I always thought it were the XP CD's to I created another using Mass storage devices within winnt.sif which I found a MS guide for on their official site.

I rebooted with the CD, and it would not work :realmad: , so I retired for the evening and went to bed. I woke up this morning quite early and watched the Lord Of The Rings trillogy then came onto here and read about unplugging my drive from port 1.

Now, thats an interesting thought. In the past when I have had this working I do need to unplug my storage drive but Windows has always detected the raid when they are both plugged in. The only reason to unplug the one in the past, was windows would tell me that the partition (the raid array) was not suitable for Windows XP (or something to that description, I cannot remember the exact wording).

If I then unplugged the drive, it would let me use the raid array to install windows. So what happened to me this time around was quite weird, but unplugging the first device did work! So thanks :thumbup

Now, If you want me to remake the CD but using nlite and then unplug the device to see if setup detects my disks, I can.

Thanks :D

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Well I finally got it to work, but not using nlite although I think that nlite would have worked too.

So what happened to me this time around was quite weird, but unplugging the first device did work! So thanks :thumbup

Now, If you want me to remake the CD but using nlite and then unplug the device to see if setup detects my disks, I can.

Thanks :D

Congratulations, that you succeeded at least.

It makes me happy, when I detect the reason for an issue and when I can help somebody else.

If you like, you can repeat the successful install by using nLite. A perfect integration of the nForce SataRaid drivers is not the only advantage of this tool ....

CU

Fernando

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Well I dont wanna resinstall, but I did use nlite and then did the drivers manually, so I still have all updates added and certain things removed and reg twaks loaded via nlite.

but I will see If I can get it to detect the drives.

Anyway I recieved my 3800 venice today and my DFI SLI-DR Expert is on its way to me too.

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Hi All,

I'm new to nLite and have been trying to install Windows XP on an ASUS A8N-SLI premium system with a RAID0 ( 2 X Seagate SATA drives 80GB) array. This array was set up in the motherboard BOIS and the Nvidia RAID bios. After these actions the two disks are seen as one disk by the motherboard bios.

I have tried using nLite according to the first post in this thread with the following results :

Note: The options selected are :

1) Service pack integration ,

2) Driver integration ,

3) Make ISO image

Also , I am using WHQL version 6.70 of the nvidia nforce drivers.

During the driver integration stage , I get the following message:

"D-Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Nevertheless, the operation completes successfully but when attempting the install Windows complains about not being able to complete the install because no disks have been found . I am then only given the option to exit with the F3 key.

What causes these attempts to fail in the way they have ?

P.S. The disks are connected to port 1 and 2 of the Nvidia SATA controllers

Please help. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Caspanis

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