Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
After my computer was returned from being upgraded one of the problems is that I don't have an RAID controller installed. I think this is causing the problem with my CD/DVD where I can't get it to run .exe/autorun type files.

I have a Sony CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, CRX320AE. I think the proper software is on the CD but I can't get it to launch the autorun file. Is there a way to install the proper driver to get my CD player working? Motherboard info: P4S800D-X. I'm able to install programs in safe mode but they don't run properly once in normal mode. How do I find my RAID controller info to select the proper driver?

After getting this thing upgraded I noticed that A LOT of information/ files etc are missing from my hard drives (to include a very good NWN campaign ). It's a major annoyance.
1. What makes you think it's a problem with the controller ? I'm also puzzled as to what RAID has to do with anything, or why you'd need one, unless, like Husar pointed out, they put RAID controllers by default in some machines these days. What can I say, my hardware knowledge is more than a bit rusty.
2. Ok, help me out here, I have a sucky memory, and I don't recall you posting a thread where you explained what the problem with running autorun files... Can you point me to it, or elaborate a bit ?
IIRC, this is also a windoze setting - you can enable autoplay or not. Did you check that ? Or is there more to it than just not running autorun stuff ?

3. Can you install the driver from the command line ? i.e. a:\blah\mydriver.exe ?
Also, you don't need to be able to run the autorun thing to install something. You can just double-click on the setup.exe or whatever the executable is called from the CD.

4. The missing files - now that's a more serious problem, and it's not clear to me if it has to do anything with the above issues. Did they change your hdd ? Did they reinstall windoze ?
Can you give a few more examples of what kind of files are missing ?
For instance, I dunno where NWN keeps its savegames and whatnot, but a lot of games save "character/profile" info and savegames in My Documents\etc... So, if, for whatever reason, that got deleted, you may have lost them.
Are you still using the same "user" in windows as before your machine was upgraded ? If you switched to a different user, that user may not have the data in *their* My Documents folder, so that's why it looks like it's missing.

Eh, lots of guesses here, but you didn't give us much to go on with, either.