having problems installing raid controller!!!!!!!!!!!

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:43 pm

i got a High point rockette raid controller 1520 series and i am having trouble installing the drivers in winXP...every time its about to finish i get this error:

There is a problem installing this hardware
RAID Controller
An error occurred during the installation of this device
The data is invalid

i have a winXP box with a ASUS P4TE mombo
768 RDRAM
SBLIVE audigy eX
Promis ata 133TX2 controller card
genaric nic card
geforce 4200TI 128meg vid card

any idea's????

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:27 pm

Is the card already installed in a PCI slot? If so, take it out, then load the drivers in Windows, then reinstall the card and reboot.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:18 pm

winxp should have the drivers for it already?

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:23 pm

Burke wrote:Is the card already installed in a PCI slot? If so, take it out, then load the drivers in Windows, then reinstall the card and reboot.

When you first configure winXP for the first time, it asks you if you need to install a 3rd party raid/scsi device. The only way I know of to safely/stably(stable-ly?) to install this 3rd party controller is though this method during winxp setup. Basically it has been my experience that if you want to setup a new raid/controller that you have to start with a fresh install of windows.

**EDIT** A good method for testing this is to use an old or secondary HD as a "test" drive with the controller and a fresh install, then wipe all your soon to be raid drives out since they need to be formatted anyway and setup your driver on the ACTUAL hard drive to be used assuming you were able to navigate the 3rd party setup steps successfully on test drive.

JD

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:08 pm

Burke wrote:Is the card already installed in a PCI slot? If so, take it out, then load the drivers in Windows, then reinstall the card and reboot.

I've installed plenty of controllers after the OS install, try what Burke is saying to do.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:31 am

nightowl wrote:i got a High point rockette raid controller 1520 series and i am having trouble installing the drivers in winXP...every time its about to finish i get this error:

There is a problem installing this hardware
RAID Controller
An error occurred during the installation of this device
The data is invalid

i have a winXP box with a ASUS P4TE mombo
768 RDRAM
SBLIVE audigy eX
Promis ata 133TX2 controller card
genaric nic card
geforce 4200TI 128meg vid card

any idea's????

Im sure you have already but have you gone to the Manufacturers website and downloaded their newest drivers and/or Firmware first before using the older drivers?

Pie

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:28 am

RoundEye wrote:I've installed plenty of controllers after the OS install, try what Burke is saying to do.

ya i'll try what burk said first

i've already tried putting the latest drivers but i get the same error

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:34 am

RoundEye wrote:I've installed plenty of controllers after the OS install, try what Burke is saying to do.

You setup a raid array with an existing OS installation? wow, thats impressive. I honestly didn't know it was possible. I mean I know you can add an ata controller to an existing install but I've never seen a raid controller like what he is installing done like that.

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:53 am

Nightowl, are you trying to add a RAID separate from Windows, or are you trying to install Windows onto a RAID-0?

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:51 pm

Burke wrote:Nightowl, are you trying to add a RAID separate from Windows, or are you trying to install Windows onto a RAID-0?

I don't think it matters if he is configuring the raid or not, I think windows has a beef with post OS install raid controller install, something about how it has to be setup during the initial installation, its been a while since I did one.

JD

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:25 am

there is no raid setup yet (only one drive)....i managed to get it to work however for some strange reason it keeps asking to reisntall the raid controller.

Sooo...I ending up just reloading the OS to clear up all the problems

and OMFG this harddrive is quick got one of those WG 36 gig 10krpm SATA 150 drives...access time is 5.5 milliseconds

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:21 am

nightowl wrote:ya i'll try what burk said first

i've already tried putting the latest drivers but i get the same error

if the drivers are being installed from a floppy, have you tried another floppy as the one your using might be bad

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:17 am

it was winXP that was being a pain in the A$$.....i just reinstalled the OS...it was about due anyways. It has been 2 years since i've reinstalled the OS on my computer

m4a2t0t · Post by **m4a2t0t** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:44 am

wow im lucky if I go 6 months

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:59 pm

jdblitz wrote:You setup a raid array with an existing OS installation? wow, thats impressive. I honestly didn't know it was possible. I mean I know you can add an ata controller to an existing install but I've never seen a raid controller like what he is installing done like that.

Yep,

One of the ones I've done that was the most fun was adding a Promise raid5 controller to a server that had a mirrored set (which was on a promise controller too). They ran out of room on the mirrored set, so I added the raid5 and moved the data to it. Then I had to change the drive letter to "D" so that all the shortcuts on the domain would still be good. The OS stayed on the "C" partition.

Not a big deal, it can be done if planned properly.