Lanparty Expert RAID problems..

[mercid]

I followed the guide found here:

 

http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-1.htm

 

I got into the bios to setup a stripped raid-0 partition on my Raptors on the nvidia controller. When the computer boots it says no boot disk found, please reboot.

 

When I boot off the windows cd i load the drivers off the floppy that came with the board (I loaded both of the items that says required next to them). When windows asks to partition my drives, i do not see 1 drive instead i see both seprate raptors, showing up each as independant drives.

 

What have i done wrong?

 

Thank you for any help.

 

DFI Lan party Expert

3800+ X2

7800GT

2 Gigs of Corsair XMS

[urbanride]

you know that floppy that came with your mobo .. you need to press F6 before windows install (it will say) and get the drivers for raid off that

[urbanride]

the part 1/2 way down the page:

 

http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-2.htm

[mercid]

you know that floppy that came with your mobo .. you need to press F6 before windows install (it will say) and get the drivers for raid off that

 

 

Did you read this part of my post?

 

"When I boot off the windows cd i load the drivers off the floppy that came with the board (I loaded both of the items that says required next to them"

 

I have done that.

[mercid]

the part 1/2 way down the page:

 

http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-2.htm

 

 

The part about clearing the data? I followed that as well :confused:

[mercid]

to the top.

 

help please.

[NoWayRay]

Hello guys

 

I can´t use the nv sata raid either. In the bios my two raptors raid is activated and shown as "healthy" with right size when booting.

 

(btw it doesn´t matter if setting it "to boot" or not in raid config, it appears allways as bootable?)

 

 

When it comes to the point where xp 32/64 should show the partition menu during install, it hangs up everytime: bluescreen (stop: 0x0000007B).

It´s the Raidclass Driver which sucks, I tried every availible driver from DFI and nvidia with F8 or slipstreamed in xp 64 (and xp32 with the orginal disk) - no way.

It can´t access the raided hds.

(btw the different nvidia versions have all the 5.52 (WHQL) for raid)

 

When loading just the first driver you could install it on one of the sata drives,

like the problem of mercid...

(Same thing when putting the raid on the hitachi or on different channels it crashes)

 

:confused:

 

So I tried installing the Raid drivers afterwards on xp64 which is installed on an ide drive: again nvatax64.sys (nv nforce raid class controller) can´t be installed properly. Sais sth. about "installation source is unavailable" (although choosing the right one) ??

 

But everything else works perfect: sata controller and single drives o.k., no ram mistakes or high temps etc.

 

I can´t be that just the raid function whithin the nfchip is bugged, or what ?

 

I really don´t know what to try next, it just can´t be ?

 

I build this system from zero after reading this forum for building a good performing system (and to oc it when software is installed...) and I waited for any error concerning the opteron, the ram or the modified coolers/heatsinks.

But: nothing happened, no beep alarm it just bootet to bios and after a few changes I intalled xp, but just on a single drive

the raptors were too expensive for just using as one small system drive...

 

Any ideas ?

 

thanks a lot

[red930]

Are you both using x64? There is a whole issue with RAID and x64 as nvidia still hasn't released a working version to my knowledge, the only way to do it is to combine x64 dlls with some from the 32-bit version. Also it seemed to only work on a slipstreamed disk using nlite. If you do a google search you'll find out how to do that, theres even aforum for it and a how-to guide.

 

If windows is seeing two drives that is definitely suggesting the drivers are either incorrect or aren't loaded correctly, unless of course the Raid itself isn't setup properly but if you followed that guide then there shouldn't be a problem.

 

I really need to make a how-to guide for x64 Raid, if I can figure it out again...

 

One hint that got me goin in the right direction, get the x64 drivers from Guru3d.com, the 82.65 version. Those have all the files you'll need (I believe). When you go to slipstream the drivers with nlite (assuming you have a real copy of xp x64) find the folder called legacy, i believe its in the IDE folder. That should contain everything you need.

[mercid]

I got it working...

 

Used the drivers out of the legacy version of an old nforce driver package. Using 64 bit edition of xp. Windows came up complaining it could not find those 2 files during its install. I told it to skip those 2 files, installed the rest of windows. Install the newest version of the nforce drivers and all seems to be working well.

[arabrab]

I had a similar or same problem, as did anybody that tried Nvidia RAID. However, I could not get F6 during Win XP install to prompt for the NVIDIA drivers. AG shows in his RAID tutorial (http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-1.htm) to press F6 to install additional drivers, but XP never stops and asks to insert the 3rd party as shown in the tutorial. What worked for me is to use nlite to integrate the 6.85 Nvidia drivers with windows xp. With this solution, none of the logo warning steps occur during the XP install.

 

Being stubborn, it took me a while to figure this out, dispite the numerous posts on this topic. One other thing that really tricked me was the keystroke sequence necessary to enter the BIOS Nvidia RAID configuration. FIRST you press the DEL key during system startup, and then when you see the instruction to press F10 to enter the Nvidia RAID config, press F10. I figured you could just press F10 without first pressing DEL. Because of this misunderstanding, I unplugged and diagnosed a perfect build unnecessarily.

 

This whole topic might be a nice sticky, right underneath the forum rules. It sure is a popular topic and frequent trouble spot.

 

The best instruction on setting up the Nvidia RAID system is at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140. For the DFI UT Expert, choose the nForce4 AMD/Intel SLI X16 option, get the Nvidia 6.85 drivers, unpack, and integrate the legacy folder. It will make sense once you read the above blog message a couple of times.