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XP SP1 and nForce4

MBrown

MBrown

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Is there a known incapatibilty issue with SP1 and the nForce4 chipsets? Because I just got brand new motherboard today and tried installing it on my pc and it still wouldnt install. So I've tried installing it on two nForce4 motherboards and couldnt install it on any of them. And its not the CD because I have three copies of XP with SP1 and none of them installed on any of my MBs.
 
^^ If you can't do that, your motherboard should have come with a disk labelled "nVIDIA SATA RAID Driver Disk" or somesuch. You have to press F6 when prompted at the beginning of the install and let Windows Setup pull the drivers from the disk. SP! doesn't recognize the NF4 SATA controller, but SP2 does.
 
Originally posted by: Painman
^^ If you can't do that, your motherboard should have come with a disk labelled "nVIDIA SATA RAID Driver Disk" or somesuch. You have to press F6 when prompted at the beginning of the install and let Windows Setup pull the drivers from the disk. SP! doesn't recognize the NF4 SATA controller, but SP2 does.
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That didnt work. it doesnt even get to the screen where you press enter to install or press r to repair screen.
 
I can run Setup from an original release OEM CD, an upgrade version SP1 CD, and an SP2 slipstream based on my OEM CD... all 3 make it to the partition selection screen fine. I just tested all 3. For the record, my board is a DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D. And all 3 installers were, actually, able to see my 2 Seagate SATA drives without loading any drivers from floppy, so I apologize for that possible bit of misinfo. SP1 could even tell that they were striped together for RAID 0. This was not the case earlier this week when I installed XP SP1 onto a 100GB Maxtor connected to an MSI NF4 board's native SATA controller for my brother in law, I had to load the floppy for that one. There may be some BIOS/firmware issues involved with the detection of the controller and drives, or lack thereof.

Either way - you have a problem, but it's not the fault of the NF4's core logic, or Windows Setup. I'd recommend taking this isue over to General Hardware for further help and greater exposure.
 
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