@ all users with a NVIDIA nForce RAID or AHCI system: Important information for all users, who are here for the first time This thread has got a big volume with a lot of sites and hundreds of replies. There is no reason to waste time and to read them. All you need to know is laid down in this first post.

If I get any new information, which might be important or useful, I will edit it into this post! So this first post will always be up-to-date! Last update: Changelog: • updated: modded 32/64bit 'Actual nForce Driverpacks for XP' (now v9.0) • updated: modded 32/64bit 'Non-AHCI nForce Performance Packs for XP' (now v9.0) • updated: modded 32/64bit 'Special MCP65-67 nForce Driverpacks for XP' (actual: v9.0) • updated: modded 32/64bit 'nForce LEGACY Remix Packs' (now v9.0a resp. V9.0) • changed: all download links (all files now hosted at a quick ftp server) Introduction The problem: None of the Pre-Vista Windows Operating Systems do support the S-ATA Controller features RAID ('Redundant Array of Independent Disks') and AHCI ('Advanced Host Controller Interface'). Unless the suitable nForce Sata/PataRAID or AHCI drivers are separately presented by the user, the OS installation fails, because the OS Setup doesn't find the related RAID/AHCI drives and their partitions. Logic The Art Of Defining And Reasoning Pdf. The traditional method to provide the needed drivers by F6/floppy has some severe disadvantages: • A floppy drive is needed, but not available at many actual desktop computers and notebooks.

• Floppy disks are the worst data storage media regarding the file integrity. Bad floppy disks are the main reason for corrupted driver files. • The F6/floppy method doesn't work at all with some 'LEGACY mode' nForce RAID systems. Even if the user loads the correct nForce drivers and the RAID is detected by Windows Setup, the OS installation may end with a BSOD and endless reboot loops. The better alternative is the integration of the needed textmode drivers into a bootable OS CD.

Only this way the user can be sure to succeed with the installation of the OS onto an nForce RAID or AHCI system. Nevertheless the developers of the driver integration method had to solve the above specified problem (see point 3). Until 2005 the correct installation of the nForce S-ATA/P-ATA Controllers and drivers needed addtional manual work of the user. They only succeeded after having created special folders and edited some SIF and/or OEM files. The solution: The safest and easiest way to get the problematic nForce textmode drivers properly installed is to integrate them by using a tool like nLite. All actual versions of nLite (Since v1.0 Final) have incorporated a special method, which guarantees the successful OS installation onto any nForce RAID or AHCI system (if the user observes some rules layed down below). The replacement of the correct nForce Controllers and drivers by the 'wrong' MS IDE ones will be prevented by the built-in suppression of the MS IDE drivers during the hardware detection part of the OS installation.