Raid controller for A8N-SLI

[David M]

I am offering $100 bucks to the first person who finds a solution that works for me to the followng problem. I have spent enough money on this computer so far whose only abilities so far are to generate heat and fan noise. I'm serious as a heart attack. If you offer a solution that works and it gets my Windows XP up and running, I will mail you 100 dollars in cash. Of course you must be registered with PC Mech so I can confirm I am sending the cash to the right person.

I have done Google searches and have found the same problem numerous times elsewhere...but not one solution. I have spent all day trying to find a solution and I would rather spend the money than spend another day trying to find a solution.

I am trying to install the RAID controller which is required for the installation of Windows XP. The RAID controller is for the NVIDIA RAID controller.

Here's the sequence of the install.

After successfully setting up RAID 0+1 :

- Booted from XP Pro CD
- Pressed [F6] to request manual install on the RAID driver
A minute or two after the install started, XP prompts me to insert the diskette into the A drive which contains the RAID drivers
- Inserted the RAID diskette and chose the 2 drivers.
- Pressed Enter when finished and it asked for the RAID drivers again..as if it never read the drivers.
- After about 1 minute, it returned the NVRAID.SYS not found message

It's looking for 2 files....NVRAID.SYS and NVATABUS.SYS...but does not seem to "see" them on the Diskette in the A drive.

Here are the specs: A8N-SLI-Deluxe mobo updated to rev 1006, 4 Western Digital 74Gig Raptor hard drives, WIndows XP Pro. I think thats all thats necessary given we are trying to load RAID controllers during the Windows XP Pro install

Thanks

[flanzig1]

The raid driver should be on the mother board driver cd.

[David M]

I have the driver. Thats not the problem. I copied the two drivers from the mobo CD to a diskette. The problem is Windows is not "seeing" the two drivers on the diskette in A drive.

Thanks

[bonebreaker1988]

I had the same problem when I installed raid drivers for my A8V-deluxe mobo.
Turned out what the problem was with the computer that I was copying the drivers to floppy on. Not all floppy drives are the same (drivers/support 98/ME/2000/XP)
I went to a friend, and used his computer (2003yrmodel dell /XP pro) copied the drivers to floppy, reinstalled and voilla it worked.

I found this info o PC mechanics tech tips Give it a whirl hope it helps