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Help installing VIA RAID drivers during WinXP install.

post #1 of 9
2/3/06 at 7:49pm
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Help!

I am trying to load Windows XP Pro onto my 9750 using RAID 0 on the SATA controller, and I would like to dual boot Linux at the same time. What members here have done this, and how did you do it? Here are my problems:

1. Currently, I'm stuck at Win XP Pro saying "Setup cannot load the file: viamraid.sys" when I try to load them during setup using F6. I have a new floppy and a new copy of Win XP Pro. I have checked both for integrity. Do I need to slipstream the VIA drivers onto the XP install disk and create a new one? How do I do this?

2. How do I install Linux on the RAID array? I tried using the Ubuntu disk and all it did was freeze. I think I'm missing the driver.

Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 9
2/3/06 at 9:44pm
A great tutorial here... http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=8636

It worked fine for me. Be sure you just copy the contents of the Drvdisk folder to the floppy. If you copy the folder, it won't see the necessary file.
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post #3 of 9
2/4/06 at 5:24pm
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Didn't work.

I reformatted the floppy and did a CHKDSK on it. I still get the same problem - Windows refuses to load the driver from the floppy during the copying files portion of the setup.

"Setup cannot copy the file: viamraid.sys"

This is even though it saw a single 120GB drive and formatted a 60GB partition for WinXP, as I told it to earlier.

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post #4 of 9
2/4/06 at 5:30pm
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Further comments:

I went through the setup exactly as in the article at planetamd64.com. I saw the screens exactly as they are in the article, including where the setup utility found the drivers on the disk as in this picture. However, when I got to the stage of actually copying files to the disk, setup refuses to load viamraid.sys from the floppy drive, and if the files are skipped Windows XP bluescreens on boot.

Argh!
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post #5 of 9
2/4/06 at 5:31pm
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Sorry, meant this picture.
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post #6 of 9
2/4/06 at 11:55pm
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I have now been able to integrate the drivers by slipstreaming the drivers into Win XP Pro SP2. However, the system now BSOD's after boot with the same stupid error 0x0000007B. Still no progress...
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post #7 of 9
2/5/06 at 2:43pm
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I figured it out. Bad disc. I was trying to slipstream SP2 incorrectly.
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post #8 of 9
2/6/06 at 3:46pm
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Argh! CD-ROM has died! Block errors out the wazoo!

RMA #2 coming up.
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post #9 of 9
2/7/06 at 12:08am
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Got it up and running. Ron Baird suggested that since I had TWO non-working laptops, I should take the CDROM out of the old one and put it in the new one. The tech walked me through it on the phone with Ron.

Now THAT is service. Props to both Powernotebooks.com and Sager.
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