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 wrote:

> 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

>

 

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.

 

"Mike" wrote:

> 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

>

>

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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"Mike" <mikedavies621@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> 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

>