Asus K8V SE - help installing IDE SATA driver

[ajf3]

Hey all,

Had my board running great, but it crashed last night & I ended up having to do a repair install of XP.

Now, I can't see the two IDE drives on my SATA channel in XP. During boot, the bios correctly identifies the two drives on the SATA378 TX2PLUS controller, so I think it's an XP driver issue.

In device manager, under "SCSI and RAID controllers", I have an entry for "WinXP Promise FastTrack 378 (tm) Controller" with an asterisk and an error stating "Device cannot start - code (10)".

This device is currently using Fasttx2k.sys and ptipbmf.dll.

I tried to reinstall the driver using the files in 378ata_100104528.zip, but it won't use them. Isn't this the one we need to use to run 2 IDE non-raid drives on that controller? The alternative seems to be the files from 378raid_100137.zip, but that seems to indicate a raid setup!

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?!?

 

[ajf3]

Any ideas?

 

[ajf3]

ttt

 

[McArra]

Did you load SATA drivers from a floppy??

 

[ajf3]

Was I supposed to do that when doing the reinstall of XP? I thought that since it didn't contain my boot drive I could just load the driver after the installation...

 

[McArra]

I think u need raid drivers, try it.

 

[Modder N Art]

Originally posted by: ajf3
Was I supposed to do that when doing the reinstall of XP? I thought that since it didn't contain my boot drive I could just load the driver after the installation...

As you have found, if you don't load the RAID drivers during the install, you won't see the RAID array.

Having reloaded XP a third time on this computer, the Promise controller simply won't work without the drivers loaded during XP install.

Lisa

 

[ajf3]

Thx for the reply! Is this the case even if I don't want to use it as a RAID (just want to run it in ATA mode)... Really don't want to do another repair install!

 

[Modder N Art]

Originally posted by: ajf3
Thx for the reply! Is this the case even if I don't want to use it as a RAID (just want to run it in ATA mode)... Really don't want to do another repair install!

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but yes, you still need the drivers, but you need the ATA mode drivers rather than the RAID mode ones. When the Windows installer says to press F6 if you need to use other drivers and you don't press F6, you're not going to be using that/those drive(s).

But if you buy another drive and make a RAID 0 array, Windows will install REALLY quickly

Lisa