XP Hard Disk controller driver problem

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Mike

Hi,

I re-flashed the bios in my SiL 3112 SATA hard disk controller so as
to give me RAID capability. Unfortunately I stupidly omited to
install the corresponding Windows device driver beforehand, and now my
installation of Windows XP SP2 won't boot. It gets as far as the
first (dim) Windows Logo but then just restarts. Is there a way of
persuading it to install another disk driver at this early stage of
the boot process or am I stuck ? I really don't want to perform
another repair install atm.

Many thanks,

Mike
 
Mike said:
Hi,

I re-flashed the bios in my SiL 3112 SATA hard disk controller so as
to give me RAID capability. Unfortunately I stupidly omited to
install the corresponding Windows device driver beforehand, and now my
installation of Windows XP SP2 won't boot. It gets as far as the
first (dim) Windows Logo but then just restarts. Is there a way of
persuading it to install another disk driver at this early stage of
the boot process or am I stuck ? I really don't want to perform
another repair install atm.

Many thanks,

Mike
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Flashing a bios usually reverts it to a default state. Right after
POST, re-configure the bios setup to the previous state to boot off
the original boot drive whilst disabling the RAID capability. Verify
that the hard drives are set for "Auto-Detect" and LBA. It might also
be worthwhile to check all of the bios settings.

Personally, for converting to RAID, I would rather do a clean install
on to clean drives.
 
Once youve set the RAID set in the F6 option before xp install,the OS
RAID drivers still need to be installed in xp.Sure youve configured a RAID
set.Also,thier is no hd controller for RAID,thier SATA controller(s),hd
controllers
are IDE.
 
Hi,

I'm sorry but I was not very clear in stating my question : I am
using a PCI SATA hard disk controller Sil3112 because my mobo does not
support SATA and I have a SATA HDD. There are several versions of the
BIOS for this card and each version of the BIOS requires its own
version of the Windows device driver. I did not realise this and
updated the version of the BIOS in the Sil3112 without updating the
Windows Device driver. I have not formed a RAID set yet, but
according to the manufacturer the card will work on the original disk
without a RAID set providing the device driver is the correct one for
the BIOS.

If there is some way of getting Windows XP SP2 to load an extra device
driver at boot time (as the repair install does with the F6 option)
then that would be the perfect option for me ? Or if there isi some
method of using the repair console to achieve the same end then that
would be great too ?

Many thanks

Mike
 
This may be totally in left field, but a PCI/SATA adapter is recognized in
my BIOS as a SCSI device.
Once I set the BIOS boot order to CD/FLOPPY/SCSI it worked.
 
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