• rusty
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Topic: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 Driverpack

Hi,

I'm hoping to find some help in finding or putting together a driver pack for the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 SATA/RAID controller on the ASUS M4N78 PRO M/B I've just purchased. I'm looking to install Windows XP Pro from USB which isn't so difficult but it seems integrating the drivers into WinXP CD is a bit harder. I don't have a floppy disk drive as these are redundant therfore the option to press F6 and install thrid party dirvers is one...

I've seen a couple of posts on how to do this but they are a wee bit confusing and in my opinion are a bit over complicated and I have no idea how to put this together as this is a first and would really prefer not to spend hours researching this for a one off. So any help is appreciated.

Thanks to any and all help provided.

Last edited by rusty (2009-09-26 01:26:57)

  • Mulgie
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Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 Driverpack

Hi Rusty,

Welcome to the forums squire! wink

Your problem is fairly strightforward so I'll do my best to help point you in the right direction.

The tutorial for creating your own driverpacks is very easy to follow and so as a newbie you should hopefully get through it OK.  You can find it here:
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=5

Once you've used this tutorial to create your driverpack then simply download and install the Driverpacks BASE application from here:
http://driverpacks.net/applications/latest

Now, browse to where you've installed the BASE application and stick your newly-created pack in the '3rd Party Driverpacks' folder. 

All that's left is to run the DPs_BASE.exe program and then point it to where your XP install files are located and it'll do all the hard work of slipstreaming in your drivers.

Good luck! wink

Mulgie

Last edited by Mulgie (2009-09-26 02:00:23)

  • OverFlow
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Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 Driverpack

I belive that install from USB uses winnt32.exe instead of setup.exe...

the main DriverPacks and 3rd party DriverPack will not work with winnt32 based installs.
You can use SAD (check the FAQ forum)

If you use DriverPacks BASE to add the mass storage text mode drivers that should work (text mode only!)

The better (and simpler for a noob) way to do this for a one off machine is to use nLite
http://www.nliteos.com/

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  • rusty
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Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 Driverpack

Thanks for ya help guys and the welcome notes!