Guys, pls help! - Can anyone pls advise which Controller driver I need to download (to a Floppy disk) to enable XP to "see" the Controller/HDDs during the setup/install?
I just bought a refurbished Precision 390 which had, unfortunately Win Vista pre-installed. I have a copy of WinXP Pro SP2 that I want to install on this PC. But can't seem to find the right Controller Driver. I've tried the following without success by pressing F6 during the XP setup processes.
Serial ATA:Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver - tried about three different versions available from Dell.com, including: R158601.exe, R130118.exe, etc. Below is the summary of the key specs of the PC, just in case:
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Precision Workstation 390 Mini-Tower: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz/1066MHz/4MB L2/Dual-core/VT
C5 All SATA drives, RAID 1, 2 drive total configuration
256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 3450
Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate
Operating System CD
2 GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)
16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
16X DVD ROM Drive
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Duh, it helps if I break the RAID1 setup.
OK so now XP can recognize the drives, with the help of the R158601.exe driver.
Now my question is how can i actually utilize the RAID adapter to say create the RAID1 or even RAID0 configuration without having XP experiencing the same problem of not seeing the drives.
Thanks for your help.
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I just bought a refurbished Precision 390 which had, unfortunately Win Vista pre-installed. I have a copy of WinXP Pro SP2 that I want to install on this PC. But can't seem to find the right Controller Driver. I've tried the following without success by pressing F6 during the XP setup processes.
Serial ATA:Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver - tried about three different versions available from Dell.com, including: R158601.exe, R130118.exe, etc. Below is the summary of the key specs of the PC, just in case:
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Precision Workstation 390 Mini-Tower: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz/1066MHz/4MB L2/Dual-core/VT
C5 All SATA drives, RAID 1, 2 drive total configuration
256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 3450
Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate
Operating System CD
2 GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)
16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
16X DVD ROM Drive
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klauzja
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July 7th, 2007 04:00
OK so now XP can recognize the drives, with the help of the R158601.exe driver.
Now my question is how can i actually utilize the RAID adapter to say create the RAID1 or even RAID0 configuration without having XP experiencing the same problem of not seeing the drives.
Thanks for your help.
dodge1955
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July 7th, 2007 13:00