First post, by martin778
Hi all,
I have a Dell XPS600 with a Pentium D940 and it's hard drive has been wiped and I can't get it to install Windows at all.
Windows XP SP3 throws a code 7B BSOD right after it loads the files from CD. Windows 7 throws an Unexpected IO error at the same stage.
The chipset is the nVidia nForce 4 SLI.
I managed to boot Hiren's boot DVD and run some diagnostics - the disks are recognized and accessible, no errors to be seen. I also installed a Kingston KC400 256GB SSD and formatted is a single NTFS partition.
I've been reading a bit on the RAID drivers but surely the SATA ports cannot be permanently set to RAID, are they? There is also no IDE/AHCI option available.
The SATA port options in BIOS are OFF/ON/RAID and are set to "ON" and I also did a CMOS reset by removing the RTC battery.