UPDATE!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!! THANK YOU ALL Problem with Soyo Dragon and clean install of Promise Raid drivers and Win XP

Thegman240

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Please someone help me!


I had exhausted all options and have been spending hours trying to figure out my problem. I need some expertise!


My Problem: I have a new setup, Soyo Dragon, 2 Western Digital 7200 rpm ata/100 Hard drives set up on a raid 0 array, each on thier respective Raid controllers and set to master. I have the raid controller enabled of course and set to boot from Cd rom to load WINXP CoRP Operating system. Everything boots up fine and when I get to the scren that says "press f6 to load raid drivers" I DO and it takes me to a screen that says to insert a floppy disk to load the drivers by pressing "S" which I do. My problem is that whenI choose the "windows 2000 fasttrack lite" drivers and press enter, I get this message that says "win2000\fasttrack.sys caused an unexpected error(18) at line 2108 in d:\xp client\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c"


WTF is this? I cant load the drivers. If I just try to bypass them and keep installing. I get the message that" No Hard drives are installed" Upon post, the bios says the raid array is setup and "functional" Everything has been formatted as one drive of course.


I have tried downloading the new promise drivers from SOYO and used the one on the cd rom that came with the MB but no luck. I have tried to load WIN2000 and WINXP individually and still get the same error message. I have even tried setting my bios to " Failsafe settings" and that did not work ether so I set it back.


PLEASE HELP WITH YOUR EXPERTISE!


I don't know what to do, it's sunday and tech support is closed and I need to get this up and running today.


Does anyone else have this problem?


Is there something I"m missing as this is VERY FRUSTRATING
 

pe3046

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I have had similiar problems with a compaq dual xeon with adaptec scsi raid. I has to do this like 10 times before it worked. I also tried different versions of the drivers. The new adaptec would not work, the older ones I got off the web worked after 4 times. It has done this every time I reinstall windows 2k. I would suggest to keep trying or try different versions of the raid drivers, maybe off of the promise website.

Patrick