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Problems with RAID setup?

yourspaceholidayyourspaceholiday Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So, I just built my first computer, and everything came out great. I got really excited when it booted up no problem, but when installing Windows (XP 64-bit), I ran into a bit of an issue. The setup program was unpacking all the drivers and stuff (that blue screen with the gray bar at the bottom), and when it got to the part where it says "Starting Windows", it got an error. The main technical part of the error was "STOP: 0x0000007B(a bunch of other similar numbers where in here)". After some googling around, it appears that maybe since I don't have RAID drivers installed, it's getting confused (I have two drives set up in a RAID 0 configuration). Now, how exactly would I install these drivers? I tried loading from the CD that came with my motherboard (Asus P5Q Deluxe), but nothing came up. Is there something I should do in the BIOS, maybe? I'm really at a loss. If there's anything else I need to explain, just let me know and I'll do my best. Like I said, it's my first build, so I'm relatively new to all of this.

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131297
Hard Drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152100

Thanks, guys.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You need to create a floppy disk with the drivers on it. The Asus CD/DVD that came with the Motherboard will have a utility to create the disk, you can either boot to the Asus disc or run the disc in another computer and do it from Windows.

    Then, when you first boot from the Windows CDROM, it will ask you to press F6 to load additional drivers. After you hit F6, the Windows installation will continue and load some generic drivers, then it will stop and ask you to insert the driver floppy and then hit 'S' to select additional drivers from it. The disk may have more drivers than you need, and actually has two different sets for your chipset (one for RAID configuration and one for non-RAID configs). Choose the RAID driver for your chipset, and it will load the drivers. Then you can return to the Windows installation and continue normally.

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  • yourspaceholidayyourspaceholiday Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    OK, some more googling leads me to believe I can "slipstream" these drivers into the install? That'd be great, since I don't have a floppy. I'll give it a shot when I get home from work. Thanks for the help/confirmation, Ruckus

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