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ASUS A8V Promise raid, as IDE single ** Update fixed it **

Markfw

Markfw

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OK, I followed the manual and set the raid controller to IDE mode (not raid), when it boots, it sees the drive, and under windows 2000 is has the driver, the lastest from ASUS, but it won;t start !! I did a search, since I think I have seen this before, but no results.

Any help is appreciated.
 
By "won't start," is that what it's saying in Windows Device Manager, "this device cannot start" etc etc? Or is the drive just not showing up in My Computer?
 
Exactly. yellow exclamation. I disabled the SATA raid controller in case that was a problem, and I even tried uninstaiing and re-installing the device. It just says it can;t start.
 
Hmmm... 😕 Is there a PCI card in slot #3? That slot edit: oops, I mean, the Promise controller shares its chipset IRQ with the VIA SATA RAID and also with PCI slot #3. Long shot, but it's the first thing that's coming to mind. PCI slot 4 appears to be the least-cluttered one, if you have a high-traffic item that needs a good slot.
 
No slots except the video, I thought I had disable the data raid, maybe a jumper.... I will look. It still wants to load drivers for that, and that could be the problem. I will get back.

No jumpers....
 
And the drive on that channel is a hard disk, not an optical, right? 😱 Maybe there's something in the Event Viewer > System log that would shed some light on it? I'd also try out some drivers from Promise themselves, and/or uninstall the Promise out of Windows Device Manager and let Windows rediscover it.
 
Here is the event viewer text :
Driver detected an internal error in its data structures for .
and thats all there is, nothing after the .
There is tome mention on the Promise site about driver fixes for large drives not being detected, but this detects perfectly (250 gig), but in windows, it goes out to lunch with the driver !!! And there is NO 378 promise controller listed. It could be the fasttrack 100 tx2 and the ASUS on-board calls ir 378, but ???
 
Well, I tried the closest match, a fasttrack 100 tx2, and got the same error in the event viewer. The only difference is the service was called fasttrackx2k, and now its just facttrack. Same error though. Any more ideas ? And the dewscription of changes for this driver was for bigger HD's
 
I tried a suggestion of making it master. That didn;t work. Then I tried disabling the sata. That didn;t work. OK, I am out of ideas folks....

Any more ideas ?
 
Maybe 250GB is too big for it to handle in IDE mode. Slap an old 30GB drive on there and see what happens, maybe?
 
Well, it detects it fine at 233gb during boot, but once in windows the driver won;t work. I will see if I can find a small drive tonight. I thing the olne one I have is a dying 4 gig.
 
I got it ! On the CD that came with the motherboard, there is are two directories. The second one looks like a SATA controller, and when you get done, it says "Win2000 Promise SATA378(tm) IDE controller, but it works like a charm(this really is a 40 pin regular ATA drive in the raid socket, as a single drive). I had to select "one of the other drivers" to even get it to allow me the choice, and I said what the heck, but it works !
 
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