Need Urgent help with XP install

[Niallirl]

ok so i did a bit of digging and it looks like X.P cannot recognize the sata raid system i have and that if i install a driver for it at the start of setup by hitting F6 that it will fix the problem only thing is that i dont have a floppy drive so im a little confused on how to get it on the system, here is a like to the base unit i used to build my with H.P Site if you can find the driver on that site please tell me which one it is

 

[KSoD]

Use nlite to slipstream the driver into the XP install. That is the only way i can think of to do what you need to do.

 

[jay_bo]

Correct me if im wrong but i read somewhere on the web ages ago, that you would only need to setup the raid if you had 2 or sata drives

 

[KSoD]

Yes that is correct. RAID does require at least 2 hard drives.

 

[Niallirl]

yeah sorry its a sata hard drive which can be used for raid

 

[Yek]

Edit: I re-read the thread and my reply was N/A, sorry

 

[EricB]

I had that issue on a computer that I built for a rapper last week. for some reason, the sound card wouldn't act right in the bottom slot. moving it solved the problem.

I had the same issue another time and it was because I had 4 sata dvd burners hooked up at once and it was causing an irql conflict (this was never an issue with ide drives in the same setup) during install. I disconnected 3 of them, install xp then hooked them back up

 

[atomic tofu]

take out extraneous stuff like the sound card
in bios:
disable usb
disable serial and parallel
set drive to IDE mode
disable secondaray sata if any
disable lan

retry

then when/if it works you can re-enable

 

[EricB]

Correct me if im wrong but i read somewhere on the web ages ago, that you would only need to setup the raid if you had 2 or sata drives

that has nothing to do with this. sata is raid. xp doesn't recognize most raid setups.

 

[EricB]

I had missed the second page for some reason

go to driverpacks.net and downloads the sata pack. hp media center disc recognizes their sata drivers