RAID Problems with Gateway

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Thall860

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Hello,

I was given a Gateway E-6500. P4 dual 3.2, 1GB RAM, twin 80GB SATA drives.

Story goes like this, I want to reload XP Pro on it. In the Bios the Hard drive options are IDE, RAID and something else. I changed it from IDE to RAID, because I would like to mirror the two drives. I can not find the RAID drivers for the intel board because intel claims it does not exist. Intel Board Part number D945GBI.

I also left it as IDE and when into the drive manager in XP that is already on it and tired to mirror the system drive onto the second drive and that did not work either.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Find out which ICH version its using, and download the Intel drivers for that version.

The Gateway site didn't list the drivers?
 
this PC was a business build, handled by MPC Computers. When I went to the support site the website did not work. Come to find out they are out of business.

Looks like gateway does not really have much for their PC, they give the RAID drivers but only for Vista.

What is ICH?
 
945G is the main, northbridge chipset, and it has a corresponding southbridge chipset, ICH7 or ICH8 I'm guessing. Try the RAID drivers for ICH7, see if those work. If not, try ICH8. You can get them from the intel site.
 
Thank you for the reply. I downloaded the F6 drivers from the Intel site and tried again.

For every driver they have listed when I am in XP setup I get an error message (tried two different floppies):

file iastor.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 2113 in D:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

Press any key to continue


Any Ideas? Thanks
 
Try another floppy drive and another floppy disk. On one occasion, I had to pull the floppy drive out of my system and use it on the system I was setting up, and thats when it finally worked, lol.
 
thanks for your help with this. Come to find out I had 3 bad floppies in a row.
 
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