Topic says it all.

Angry_Games had a GREAT walkthrough on how to setup a raid, including pictures. Was that saved from DIY The Street? I could REALLY use it about now. Also, anyone know how to download the latest NVRaid drivers for Win XP 32? I went to nVidia's download site but couldn't find them.

The RAID drivers are included within the nForce chipset driver download, though you may just be better of grabbing them from your motherboard manufacturer's support page.

As for the walkthroughs, a quick search turns up these results. (doesn't look like pictures got carried over though).

As an alternative, I've always found the walkthroughs in my motherboard manuals to be perfectly acceptable.

Think this is the thread you're looking for. But Travis's link is dead. Send him a pm and see if he will rehost it.

Nforce4 Ultra-D/SLI-DR/SLI-D RAID Tutorial

Yeah, the link to Angry's set up on the DAGF was what I was looking for, maybe I'll just pm and see if he'll send it to me in a word file.

The link in this thread is dead also.

DFI NF4-DAGF BIOS + RAID setup guide

Ok, I found the nv raid drivers here, but now I'm having a problem with them. Seems that the extracting program reformats my floppy disk (which isn't a big deal), then when I hit F6 during Win XP Pro installation to locate raid drivers - the Win XP Pro installation tells me that the floppy is formatted with an unrecognized file system.

can you extract them to a different place manually...format the floppy and then move the files over manually as well?

pkilway,

If you'd like, PM me and I can send you the NF4 RAID files so you can just copy them onto a pre-formatted floppy.

in the nvidia motherboard driver download, if you extract the setup files (I use WinRAR, Winzip might work), you will have a folder called IDE or RAID or SATA or something pretty obvious... or just search the extracted folder for txtsetup.oem, and then copy that whole directory to a floppy, hey presto NF4 Raid floppy...

Wevsspot I sent you a pm with my email address. Thanks for the help.

Ok, I downloaded the 6.86 nForce4 drivers. Unpacked them, and can see the files in the default location (C:\NVIDIA\nForceWin2KXP\6.86\IDE\WinXP\). I just want to comfirm that I need the files in the sataraid folder, is that correct?

yup, the sataraid folder is the one with txtsetup.oem (this basically means the drivers are for text-mode setup, like the XP installation is text-mode), and you copy these files to A:\

the floppy doesn't need to be a bootdisk (although it can be if you have 501KB space for the RAID files), it can just be formatted as a regular FAT16 floppy disk...

When it rains it pours, thanks to wevsspot for a .rar of the nvraid drivers, I was able to attempt a new install of Win XP SP2. I get all the way to the first boot into windows, then blue screen. I'm about ready to run to Fry's and buy an MSI Neo3-F, 2Gb of DDR2 Ram and an E7200.

are you running stock speed with just the RAID-0 array connected, pressing F6 and loading *both* drivers (press S, load one, press S, load the other)? if not, then you should...

Yep, trying to set up Windows XP SP2 at default settings (cpu and memory) with just the two 80Gb hard drives attached via the SATA ports. When it boots to cd, I hit F6 and select both drivers. After Windows copies all the files and then sets up the directories, etc. when it reboots to run Windows for the first time - blue screen and reboot (it will do this over and over in an endless loop).

Edit: Now I was able to install Win XP SP2 with the 2 80Bg WD's not in raid (hence the reason I can post this message). There's got to be something that Win Xp doesn't like about those drivers.

Are you sure that you have RAID enabled in the BIOS? I know that sounds like a simplistic question, and I'm not trying ot sound like a dumbass here. But make sure that you have RAID enabled, and make sure to enter the RAID BIOS and select the appropriate drives that will constitute the array. Once you've added the drives to the array you should have the option to set the stripe size and whether or not you want the array to be bootable.

Yep did that too. Had Raid enabled in Bios, had the two 80Gb hard drives (SATA#1 and SATA#2) selected, went into the Raid utility (F10) after the boot screen and reselected the drives, set them in a striped array, and left the size at default (optimal) and made the stripe bootable. To think this was all in that walkthrough Angry had made!!!

Could the latest nvRaid drivers be conflicting with Win XP since at that point it would have been able to update?

pk,

not quite sure i understand the question exactly the way it was worded.

is your array working now (or maybe was working until doing a driver update?)

pkilway, I feel your pain. I'm dealing with a similar issue ATM.

My Expert has run flawlessly since 2005. PSU died so replaced with Corsair 520.
Ran great for few weeks. Try repair install and BSOD at "starting windows."

Memtest ram 22+ hrs no errors.
Changed IDE cable on DVD drive.
Tried different DVD drive.
Unhooked SATA cables tried different headers.
Tried new video card.
Removed sound card.
Disabled sound in BIOS.
Flashed variety of BIOS versions.
Raid is healthy.
Only thing not tried is new PSU (on order).

You are ahead of me in that you can install on single drive.
Hope we get the answer together.

Good luck.

Sorry.

I was able to install Win XP on my hard drives but not in a raid 0, just installed on a single 80Gb hard drive.

I was wondering if Win XP Pro SP2 had an issue with the latest NF4 SATA raid drivers (dated 4/*/2006) and my install disc's of Win XP Pro (which was probably created some time in 2005 (or earlier)).

today is the last final at college for me, so tonight or tomorrow I'll see about re-hosting some of the pages from angrygames.com that were important like the RAID guide. the only reason those pages are down is when I merged with OCC, I had to create new hosting plan at my host and that meant I had to dump the entire site to backup and then re-upload, which I just haven't done yet =/

pk: there is no issue with Nforce4 RAID + Windows XP (regardless of flavor or service pack) as I just re-installed RAID-0 to an NForce4 Expert Lanparty with latest NV RAID drivers + XP Pro SP3 (integrated).

Thanks Angry, and then I'm flumoxed as to why I'm getting that damn BSOD.