so i plugged in the ghastly floppy drive and put various drivers on a disk each its apparently a via vt6421 and thats what i used on a pendrive in vista setup.so anyways im going back to xp and i've tried the xp drivers on a floppy and it just says theres a problem with the oem text file or something similar:S then i try the silicon image sil3112 and sil3114 and i swear its sil3112 and it comes up ok with both files so i go enter and continue once its into the bit where you press enter to select hdd... NOTHING there.press F3 to quit.FFS WHY is this happening:S can someone link me to the exact drivers as there the ones i got off the cd.look in my vista thread for info on the disc.its some wierd branding.its a pci card... it just says: "RAID PCI CARD ... Integrates one UltraATA-133/IDE interface, Supports external FLASH for BIOS for expansion and RAID functions.ferderal communication commision usa. Model NO:A-6421. DB0606141409 MADE IN CHINA" thats your lot:\ seems its not supported by default... the cd i've just found it... says "SUPER SOUND MULTIMEDIA" and google finds no direct site:S it has various drivers on the disc which i have scanned thoroughly in the vista installation startup and nothing i NEED those drivers!!! xp it reckons that theres no hard discs found but it IS the driver as its off the actual disc and the winxp drivers folder.i've even tried the via ones aswell on the disc and they don't even get that far they just say something about a oemsetup.txt file error? edit if it helpss i use the via vt6421 driver in vista but i swear in the past i've used the silicon image ones when i used to use a ide drive and install the pci card after once in windows through device manager... EDIT: YEP its definately the "VIA VT6421 RAID Controller" thats what vista is reporting it is...
right i managed to use the via drivers after putting loads on various floppys... now after formatting the drive etc during setup im currently stuck on "setup cannot copy the file: viaraid.sys" but its there and the discs are brand new and i've even tried different versions on different discs and still nothing.grrrrr bloody floppy drives haha.
Would it be possible for you to create a new Windows install disc with the drivers slipstreamed onto it?
ok got it in my hand now im gonna write everything listed on the bloody thing haha. "VIAAA VT6421A 0603CD TAIWAN 2IA0013841" that was on the via logo chip... then theres... "Winbond W49V002AP 2400544901 419GFSA" then "FCC CE" style logo then "XT9444V0 E88551" erm and in the Made In China bit its got "040526 A-6421-1C" hope this will help.. OMG and on the back... "Model NO:A-6421" "EV" "DB0606141409" thats all of it as for the drivers i tried doing this with nlite and thats the disc im using and doesnt work
ARGH turns out its bloody nlite.thats what screwed it all up.i tried my original xp pro sp2 disc that i'd made it from and bang straight away fine.GRRRRR.
