need help getting raid driver from gigabyte mobo disc

[domyboy]

hi there, got some serious trojan/virus and had to delete two of my hard drives completly with wipedisk, as i never had them in raid0 before i tried to do do it this time, however i cant get the driver for the raid. i know the driver is on my mobo disk, but when i try to put it on a floppy (using another computer) it says the disk must be full, which it isnt, i tried formating it aswell but didnt work, also when i try to put floppy disks into my comp(the one with raid) its as if it dusnt know theres a floppy drive there, is it possible that my gigabyte 965p ds4 dusnt have built in drivers etc for my floppy drive, iv noticed when i start up it says this version only supports hard drives and cd rom drives, surely it includes floppy aswell? the other option i was thinking is cant i just use my corsair usb memory stick to install the raid driver? any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

[domyboy]

turned out 2 of my floppy disks were damaged, so i have the driver on a floppy, the problem now is that when i boot from the windows xp cd, it says press f6 to enter rad driver etc, i press f6 and it dusnt work, the disk is in, the floppy is plugged in and my keyboard definitly is working, any ideas?

 

[Mint_Sauce]

You may need to go in to BIOS and find USB options. Set them to BIOS rather than OS. This might solve your problem. Or if you have an old PS2 keyboard (circular end with pins in rather than the flat USB plug) plug that in and it will work straight away.

 

[bledd]

what raid controller does it use?

have you unzipped the raid drivers to the floppy? or are they just in a zip file still

you'll need a txtsetup.oem file and an inf and a sys at least...



might be easier to use raid slipstreamer to add the driver to your cd, then use nlite to burn that to disc


-edit, just read mint sauce's post, you can't use usb to add drivers in xp, only vista/2008

 

[domyboy]

ok thanks lads, ill try a few things
gigabyte raid driver, its on the mobo disk
cant beleive we still need to use floppy drives etc for programs these days

 

[RobH]

You can get all of the drivers on the Gigabyte website including the RAID ones for your motherboard if you need them. Not sure about the DS4 but some Gigabyte motherboards have SATA ports that have two different controllers (normally 2 ports are on a Gigabyte controller), the one will work without any drivers.

cant beleive we still need to use floppy drives etc for programs these days :

I know, the EEPROM on my Marvell LAN chip got messed up on my DS3 the other week and the only way to fix it was to run a program from a windows boot floppy to reflash it. At least Gigabyte got it correct with their @BIOS windows BIOS flashing tool that download the BIOS straight from the Internet and flashes it.