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January 2nd, 2008 20:00
XP on Inspiron 531 with RAID 1
I have been trying to get XP Home installed on Inspiron 531 with "Dell Data Safe" (RAID 1) that originally had Vista Basic.
Specs.
A64 X2 5000+ (2.60ghz)
128mb nvidia 8300GS
2gb ddr2 sdram, 667mhz
2 250gb sata hdd (connected to Sata 0 and Sata 1 on motherboard)
48x cdrw/dvd combo drive (sata)
No floppy
V.92/56k pci modem
BIOS 1.0.7
I have XP Home with sp2 full version. I bought a new 250gb hard drive and swapped with one of the original ones so I could save Vista for later. Reformatted drives and downloaded 531 XP drivers from this site.
http://outerheaven.c-reality.com/archives/84-Dell-Inspiron-531-Windows-XP-Driver-Pack.html
Followed directions for integration of nvidia nForce Raid (and Sata) drivers using nLite from this site.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140&st=0&p=356029
Serial-ATA Configuration in Bios is as follows:
Sata Controller Sata-1+2
RAID Enabled Enabled
SATA 1 Primary RAID Enabled
Sata 1 Secondary RAID Enabled
Sata 2 Primary RAID Disabled
Sata 2 Secondary RAID Disabled
Raid is set as boot and shows healthy. XP installs fine and when it restarts for the first time I get very fast unreadable BSOD then reboot. The screen comes up about using Safe Mode etc. and no matter what I choose it does the same thing.
When using Safe Mode with command prompt choice the last file shown before reboot is mup.sys.
If I disable raid and install again I can get XP to work but I can't get a bootable raid.
Any ideas on getting this to work?
Message Edited by Joe_Rockhead on 01-02-2008 04:57 PM
Specs.
A64 X2 5000+ (2.60ghz)
128mb nvidia 8300GS
2gb ddr2 sdram, 667mhz
2 250gb sata hdd (connected to Sata 0 and Sata 1 on motherboard)
48x cdrw/dvd combo drive (sata)
No floppy
V.92/56k pci modem
BIOS 1.0.7
I have XP Home with sp2 full version. I bought a new 250gb hard drive and swapped with one of the original ones so I could save Vista for later. Reformatted drives and downloaded 531 XP drivers from this site.
http://outerheaven.c-reality.com/archives/84-Dell-Inspiron-531-Windows-XP-Driver-Pack.html
Followed directions for integration of nvidia nForce Raid (and Sata) drivers using nLite from this site.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140&st=0&p=356029
Serial-ATA Configuration in Bios is as follows:
Sata Controller Sata-1+2
RAID Enabled Enabled
SATA 1 Primary RAID Enabled
Sata 1 Secondary RAID Enabled
Sata 2 Primary RAID Disabled
Sata 2 Secondary RAID Disabled
Raid is set as boot and shows healthy. XP installs fine and when it restarts for the first time I get very fast unreadable BSOD then reboot. The screen comes up about using Safe Mode etc. and no matter what I choose it does the same thing.
When using Safe Mode with command prompt choice the last file shown before reboot is mup.sys.
If I disable raid and install again I can get XP to work but I can't get a bootable raid.
Any ideas on getting this to work?
Message Edited by Joe_Rockhead on 01-02-2008 04:57 PM
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January 2nd, 2008 23:00
Message Edited by mombodog on 01-02-2008 07:37 PM
Joe_Rockhead
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January 3rd, 2008 00:00
I tried a bootleg version of xp pro and of course that worked but I'd rather have the legal XP Home version that I paid for installed.
I know other people have gotten XP Home to work in hardware RAID 1 but I haven't seen any info on it working on the 531.
mombodog
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January 3rd, 2008 23:00
Joe_Rockhead
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January 3rd, 2008 23:00
Now no more reboots! :)
I'm posting this in case anyone else has this problem and hasn't tried this.