RAID 0 NForce 730a Controller

[tynen]

I'm trying to install Windows 7 64 bit onto a computer that has a ECS GF8200A motherboard. The raid controller on the board is a nforce 730A. I downloaded the 64bit drivers from the website and put them on my USB drive.

Windows won't accept the non-signed drivers. So I tried the trick of loading the drivers in repair mode but it says the drivers aren't compatible with any of my hardware. But the drivers are compatible!

I've also tried self-signing the drivers, I installed my homebrew certificate but I wasn't able to do the BCEDIT command that allows "test" certificates to be accepted even though they're not microsoft signed.

I'm at a lose of what to do. Anyone have any crackpot ideas? I just want Windows 7 on my 2 drive RAID 0 array.

 

[MerlinRML]

Here are the nvidia WHQL'd (and signed) drivers for the 730A RAID controller for W7-64. http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_vista_win7_64bit_15.49.html

I'm guessing that whatever drivers you're trying to run are XP-era 64-bit drivers, since all 64-bit drivers for Vista/W7 are expected to be signed.

 

[tynen]

That's the weird thing. The drivers I was using were the WHQL signed 64bit Windows 7 Driver. I however later figured out that the raid controller is ACTUALLY a nforce 720.