ASUS A7V and WinME

[Sh4rpy]

Righty, here goes....
This is not my machine and I said I would try and sort it for someone (DOH!) but not being familier with the VIA chipset I'm looking for some quick advice. I have done a fresh install of winme on this machine but in device manager there are no hard drives,no cdrom,no primary/secondry hard drive controllers,no sound card. The only thing that has been detected is the agp card.The hard drive works and can be seen in "my computer" but there are no controllers or mention of drives in device manager. Also the cdroms are not visible so i cannot load any drivers from the support cd. The drives are not connected to the ata100 controller as they are only udma33.I have reinstalled winme twice now...what am i doing wrong?

 

[jamesbond007]

How are they being detected in the BIOS? If you go into the BIOS, roll over the Primary Master, Primary Slave, etc. The drives will show up, if they can be detected, when you press enter. Make sure you have your master/slave setup right as well. What BIOS version are you running? Update to the latest 1007 and fix a whole bunch of problems. I'm kinda tired, but that's all I can come up with at 1:33AM Good luck man.

 

[Sh4rpy]

Everything shows in the bios,all drives are detected.bios version is 1005b,i'll update to 1007 and see what happens.

 

[hclarkjr]

did you install the via 4 in 1 driver pack? it sounds to me like you have your boot drive on the promise controller and need to install the driver for it so windows can see it, i bet your CD-ROM is there also. here is link for you to download the files you need.

 

[jamesbond007]

Yeah, if you do have your equipment installed on the Promise controller, which it now sounds like you do, since Win9x can be installed on that controller without the drivers being pre-installed, unlike Win2k. Your equipment should be on the controllers that are farthest to the right, when the serial, PS/2 ports are fartheset away from you. In other words, use the ports that are just above the floppy cables. Let us know how this works out for ya. Good luck.