Hi, I've just assembled a new computer and I've spent the last few hours scouring the internet for a fix to my windows install problem, but have been unable to overcome it.
Relevant specifications:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ex38-ds4 (ICH9R RAID Controller)
Hard Drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD
Optical Drive: Lite-on SATA 20x DVD Burner
Floppy Drive: Mad Dog external USB floppy
For setup I've set the SATA RAID/AHCI MODE in bios to RAID and created the raid0 array in the AHCI bios. (Note if I disable RAID mode windows sees the two HDDs just fine, however I am trying to run the drives in RAID0)
I am getting the infamous error code when booting the windows XP SP2 CD:
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
Looking online I've found this has to do with windows not correctly recognizing my RAID0 parition due to lack of the appropriate controller drivers. Here's what I've tried so far to fix this problem:
1. Downloaded the SATA RAID driver from the following website:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...el.aspx?ProductID=2754
Per the instructions placed the driver files onto a blank formatted floppy and connected my USB floppy drive. On windows install I hit f6 to load 3rd party drivers and pressed S to specify additional adapters. Now the strangeness begins..
It prompts me to insert the driver disk into A but when I hit enter it does nothing.. just waits a few seconds and returns me to the same insert disk prompt. It doesn't try to read from the floppy drive, no errors, nothing at all, just back to the same "insert manufacurer's OEM driver diskette prompt"
I thought this may be result of a bad floppy drive or disk but I have tried multiple disks and checked their contents, and also checked that my USB floppy drive is showing up as drive A at startup.
2. After failing to f6 the RAID controller, I saw there was another way to do this without a floppy disk: to slipstream the drivers onto the startup disk using nLite Windows. However after following their instructions and successfully creating the new windows disk, I still recieved the same error code upon startup (no f6ing this time).
By now I've wasted the better part of a day on troubleshooting the seemingly simple issue of loading a 3rd party raid controller. At this point I'm stuck and have had no luck finding other people with a similar setup and startup problem as me. is there anything I'm clearly overlooking here? Any help would be greatly appreciated at this point.
Relevant specifications:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ex38-ds4 (ICH9R RAID Controller)
Hard Drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD
Optical Drive: Lite-on SATA 20x DVD Burner
Floppy Drive: Mad Dog external USB floppy
For setup I've set the SATA RAID/AHCI MODE in bios to RAID and created the raid0 array in the AHCI bios. (Note if I disable RAID mode windows sees the two HDDs just fine, however I am trying to run the drives in RAID0)
I am getting the infamous error code when booting the windows XP SP2 CD:
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
Looking online I've found this has to do with windows not correctly recognizing my RAID0 parition due to lack of the appropriate controller drivers. Here's what I've tried so far to fix this problem:
1. Downloaded the SATA RAID driver from the following website:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...el.aspx?ProductID=2754
Per the instructions placed the driver files onto a blank formatted floppy and connected my USB floppy drive. On windows install I hit f6 to load 3rd party drivers and pressed S to specify additional adapters. Now the strangeness begins..
It prompts me to insert the driver disk into A but when I hit enter it does nothing.. just waits a few seconds and returns me to the same insert disk prompt. It doesn't try to read from the floppy drive, no errors, nothing at all, just back to the same "insert manufacurer's OEM driver diskette prompt"
I thought this may be result of a bad floppy drive or disk but I have tried multiple disks and checked their contents, and also checked that my USB floppy drive is showing up as drive A at startup.
2. After failing to f6 the RAID controller, I saw there was another way to do this without a floppy disk: to slipstream the drivers onto the startup disk using nLite Windows. However after following their instructions and successfully creating the new windows disk, I still recieved the same error code upon startup (no f6ing this time).
By now I've wasted the better part of a day on troubleshooting the seemingly simple issue of loading a 3rd party raid controller. At this point I'm stuck and have had no luck finding other people with a similar setup and startup problem as me. is there anything I'm clearly overlooking here? Any help would be greatly appreciated at this point.
