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Hello Everyone:
i finally got around to making use of my onboard raid controller (a SiI 3112
SATARaid) using my 2 sata drives. after backing up my data to a portable
harddrive i then scrounged up a floppy disk drive and 2 floppies to put the
raid controllers device drivers on ( the blue screened windows xp installer
could not `see` the controller with out the drivers).
that worked a-ok. the machine reboots as exepected to continue the install
program and gets as far as 37 minutes remaining when a dialog pops up saying
(and i quote)
"has not passed windows logo ...".
its not actually telling me what driver has not passed this windows logo
stuff, and i know for certain (as i personaly built this machine ) that the
raid controller is the _ONLY_ new peice of hardware).
i know the driver is from the manufacturer and that it wont do anything
earth-shatteringly bad to my computer, but the worst bit is that i _CANNOT_
click or in anyway interact with the dialog: the installer doesnt show a
mouse cursor or allow keyboard interaction. (i was using a USB keyboard&
mouse, tried witha PS2 KB& mouse, made no difference)

therefore my question is thus: what work-arounds are available?
like tweaking the driver so windows `thinks` its passed the logo or
something called slipstreaming the driver in (but i feel that i would still
be in the same quagmire as before..)
 
You have set up youre RAID configuration already,& you get a post BIOS RAID
window,the RAID window must be displayed at every start-up,restart...If all
is
in order there,then having set youre cdrom as 1st boot device,hd 2nd,xp cd
instal-
led,at booting to xp cd,you'll see press F6 to install RAID/SCSI
drivers,then at F6
window,you'll need to install the controller drivers for RAID,you must only
have
1 floppy to install,you listed several.Go to
intel.com/downloads/chipset/software/
application accelerator for RAID,locate the silicon image download for F6
floppy.
Or locate floppy F6 by locating it for:D845PEBT2 MB Also,some boards wont
run
DOS with usb keyboard,plug in the PS/2 connection...
 
i had a spare usb mouse& keyboard lying around, plugged those in and redid
the entire reinstall, when the window telling me the drivers had not passed
the windows logo crap came up i was simply able to click continue. i will
check out that intel app accelerator though, possibly for future reference.
 
im_going_crazy said:
i had a spare usb mouse& keyboard lying around, plugged those in and redid
the entire reinstall, when the window telling me the drivers had not
passed
the windows logo crap came up i was simply able to click continue. i will
check out that intel app accelerator though, possibly for future
reference.
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Solution to WHAT? Please quote the post you are replying to, and reply to
the thread without changing the subject line. As you are using the horrible
web interface, you probably do not realise that this is NOT a web forum, but
a global usenet newsgroup.
You will get a far better "experience" by dumping the horrible web interface
and using a proper news reader instead. You already have one on your
machine - Outlook Express prior to Windows Vista and Windows Mail and News
in Vista.

See this on how to set up Outlook express as your news reader: (I expect
Windows mail and News is horribly similar....)

How to set up OE as a News reader:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164&product=oex
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm
 
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