I want to thank you and this forum, it saved me big time. About 4 weeks ago my PC died. The MOBO and the power supply died. I RMA’d them both but had a spare POwersupply, I needed to get the my gaming rig up and running again. I purchased a new MOBO.

I was running Raid on my old ASUS P5N32-sli. The new board I purchased, (could not wait for RMA). The new one was a P5Q Turbo, I received it started the installation and wanted to load the Raid drivers. Guess what no Floppy drive connector. I called ASUS their response was try slipstreaming since XP will only accept drivers from floppys. I did some researchand downloaded nLite and make a disk, it got me further, them I had a “jraid.sys is corrupt” and installation would quit. I thought maybe I messed up the slipstream disk, so I made another, no joy. I was chocked, I phoned ASUS again, they said an external Floppy should do the trick, so I bought one. Got it home and make the RAID disk, was pumped, only to find it would not work either. I Then phoned Windows a few time spoke to a person that spent lots of time listining to the problems. But after about 1 hour on the phone, was informed only way I could get it working was but the full version of Windows 7. That made me mad enough I googled some more and got a hit on this web site. I followed your instructions made a slipstream disk, and XP installed first try. I am sorry for the long response, I was at my wits end and your forum helped me. I will be on here a lot more looking for info.

Thanks Again

My other issue was that I had to start from scratch with NLite. If i loaded previous settings it only added them to the disk even though after a load I deleted the ones on there previously. Hard to understand that one but hey so far so good. I have at least made it to the formatting screen so we will see how it continues to go. Once again thank you for this amazingly well put instruction set on NLite. You are a life saver.

Acer aspire 5535
AMD Turion X2
320 seagate sata HDD
Had vista on it

Already did the research the chipset is “amd 770g”
I have done a million things to get this to work and still no success. I am using a windows xp pro student edition if that matters. I followed the slipstreaming process on this site to a “T” and I get a blue window during the initial loading where on the bottom of the screen in light grey you see what is loading. Right after I load just about everything
I get an error stating “The file ahcix64.sys cannot be found Press any key to continue” and when I do it restarts.

In your driver pack for amd you do not have that driver, so I don’t know what to do. I did the next best thing. So i manually put the “ahcix86.sys” file from your Driver/amd/sb700/x86 folder, onto the new install disk via the explore tab in NLite at the end after you create an .iso file. I manually coppied the file into the “I386″ folder and both the folders I386/nldvr/001 – I386/nldvr/002. Now so you know I did find a file called ahcix86.sy_ which it labels as a SY_ file and not a system file like the computer said it was missing.

Now the computer hangs up at the same point and displays the same error.

I have downloaded the chipset driver from acer for xp and it is kinda complicated. If you reply to this i will send you pics.

I know that my problem is with the driver for the chipset section, I really need some more precise help. I understand computers well, just not programming. Thank you for the help.

By the way, great website, great information, very clearly written and very thorough.

Mel

Thanks

Mel

However, I installed Windows 2k successfully, then “upgraded” to XP also successfully.

I would much prefer a clean XP sp3 install.

Hardware = DELL precision t5400 with 2xQuad processor.

Any advice?