After my hard disk crashed last week, I discovered that my Dimension
8400 has an Intel 82801FR SATA RAID Controller built in. I now have
two 160 GB HD and one is empty. I spent most of the afternoon trying
to install the drivers to use this capability.
Question 1: Is there a good description on how to install RAID1
capability? The readme files are hard to follow.
Question 2: I seem to be stuck on implementing the F6 utility to read
in my drivers before completing the WINXP startup. I cannot get the F6
key to kick in. I have installed the Intel utility, but it does not
appear to be working. Also, I am not sure the chip utility is working
either.
Can anyone lend some guidance here?
Stephen
Dell Dimension 8400 Ethernet Driver
Have a Dell 8400 in perfect condition with an 82801FR RAID/AHCI controller, but needing a fresh install of Windows XP on a new drive. XP SP2 install went fine, but got BSOD pointing to disk/controller on actual XP startup. Jul 18, 2012 Hardware Components and Drivers; Dell Dimension 8400 10.6.8 (Guide) Sign in to follow this. Dell Dimension 8400 10.6.8 (Guide). With this guide you will be able to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on Dell Dimension 8400! * In BIOS choose RAID/AHCI mode for SATA. It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available. Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer. Today, I tried to install Vista onto my Dimension 8400 using the built-in controller and after building the RAID0 partition, which is comprised of 2x WD Sata drives, Vista is unable to install to them. I even tried installing XP using the Dell Supplied SP2 CD, setup installs, then when the system.
Dell Dimension 8400 Raid Driver For Macbook Pro
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell ( The 8400 has a chipset that came out after XP was released so not all the needed drivers are on your CD. If you are using RAID or may in the future. Today, I tried to install Vista onto my Dimension 8400 using the built-in controller and after building the RAID0 partition, which is comprised of 2x WD Sata drives, Vista is unable to install to them. I even tried installing XP using the Dell Supplied SP2 CD, setup installs, then when the system.