SATA/Raid driver XP install help

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I'm about to reformat my mum's new HP pc (s7610.uk) with OEM MCE 2005. Since it didn't come with MCE 2005 disks I've made images from a friends. When I come to install XP MCE no hard drive is detected, so I need to nlite the raid/sata driver but I can't for the life of me find one. The chipset the PC uses is the Intel 945GT chipset and I've checked Intels website, HPs website but I can't find anything relating to a SATA/Raid driver. Can anyone help? :(

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McManicMan said:
vista should have native support for Sata drives now, no more F8 on install and it certainly installed fine on my sata drive
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I'm not installing Vista, I'm installing XP MCE 2005 :(
 
Just had a look and like you I couldn't find anything either :(

Are there any other driver CDs that come with the PC? Anything in the manuals?

If not, have a look in BIOS and see if there's an IDE compatibility mode for the SATA ports.
 
Phil99 said:
Just had a look and like you I couldn't find anything either :(

Are there any other driver CDs that come with the PC? Anything in the manuals?

If not, have a look in BIOS and see if there's an IDE compatibility mode for the SATA ports.
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Intel 945 family chipset drivers.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2115&lang=eng

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/12474/ENG/readme.txt

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/945gt/index.htm

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/945GT/tools.htm

See it now ? :rolleyes:
 
Which one do I use? is this a driver or just software to set up raid? Also they're EXEs when nlite wants INF files?

Phil99 said:
Just had a look and like you I couldn't find anything either :(

Are there any other driver CDs that come with the PC? Anything in the manuals?

If not, have a look in BIOS and see if there's an IDE compatibility mode for the SATA ports.
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No other disks :( I've just installed MCE under IDE compat mode but when I select AHCP it restarts after xp has loaded and under RAID there's just a flashing cursor (doesn't even boot) Will there be a performance hit in IDE mode? :(
 
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Meatball said:
Will there be a performance hit in IDE mode? :(
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There shouldn't be much of a performance hit (if at all), but it's worth downloading and running HDTach to see what the results come out like under IDE mode.
 
Phil99 said:
Ever considered that I'd loaded the page before you replied and submitted after you had, hence the time delay?

See, I can even use rolleyes as well, too: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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No.
 
So do I use that Intel Matrix Storage manager? Is that even a driver? NLite simply asks for an INF file which I just can't find, the Matrix storage manager is an EXE? I'm confused :(
 
use this tool first, then just use nlite to make the iso (and remove things if you need to)

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85842

this needs a simple path tho..

like C:\xpmce\ to work with :)


it includes a bunch of drivers, and the maker will happily add new drivers if you give him the links to them (pretty sure it has the intel one that you're after anyway)



-i doubt there's a performance hit in the ide mode thingy..
 
bledd. said:
use this tool first, then just use nlite to make the iso (and remove things if you need to)

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85842

this needs a simple path tho..

like C:\xpmce\ to work with :)


it includes a bunch of drivers, and the maker will happily add new drivers if you give him the links to them (pretty sure it has the intel one that you're after anyway)



-i doubt there's a performance hit in the ide mode thingy..
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Oh that seems interesting. I'll give it a try thanks!

When installing MCE AGAIN, what setting shall I put the SATA controller on?:
- IDE
- AHCP
- Raid (there's only 1 hdd in there)
 
Ok it's intergrated the drivers but how do I create the discs? I had put both disks files in one directory and when "creating iso" in nlite it doesn't say anything about separating them to two disks again?
 
sorry forgot it was mce...

it'll burn them as one, you can either write it to a dvd(r/rw), or use nlite to remove useless languages and keyboards, and things like manualinstall, msn explorer (all the big things) so its under 700mb

you can get a perfectly working mce that's way under 500mb without removing that much
 
bledd. said:
sorry forgot it was mce...

it'll burn them as one, you can either write it to a dvd(r/rw), or use nlite to remove useless languages and keyboards, and things like manualinstall, msn explorer (all the big things) so its under 700mb

you can get a perfectly working mce that's way under 500mb without removing that much
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I've only got two spare CD-Rs. All I've done is removed the Disk 2 folder (it's only one folder) and I've created a new disk 1 ISO. Wish me luck :)
 
Ok well when I installed XP MCE with the slipstreamed raid drivers it finished installation but when it got past the windows loading screen where you then set auto-updates, enter users etc it restarts the Pc and says "windows didn't start normally" I'm reformatting it...AGAIN hoping it was just a one off :(
 
I managed to solve the problem. I found a utility on the Intel website that creates a driver floppy, so I created the floppy and extracted the drivers from there and slipstreamed them onto my Media Center disk. Here's a link for anyone interested: Driver Floppy Disk
 
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