ATA66 Driver for MSI BXMaster board?

[georgeg]

I've got a system built on an MSI BXMaster board. I've had to reinstall Win98SE recently and now I get a message that the hard drive is running in MSDOS compatibility mode. Apparently I need to install drivers to get the drive running under ATA66 mode. (Its attached to the ATA66 onboard controller.) I can't seem to find a driver for this on the MSI web site. Any other ideas?

 

[Davegod75]

upgrade to w2k or winXP🙂 seriously though just go into control panel and fine the driver. right click and choose upgrade driver and let it search for the best one...it should find the right one.

 

[oldfart]

It uses a Promise Chip. Go to the Promise web site and download a driver.

 

[georgeg]

I tried that. Promise specifically says they do NOT support their chips when installed on a motherboard! Thanks anyway.

 

[georgeg]

As to upgrading to XP, MSI says the BX Master does not support Win XP. What they mean by that, I have no idea. As for going into the control panel and updating the driver.... I don't see where the ATA66 (actually, they call it DMA/ATA66) shows up. The only thing I see that I can't explain is an entry under PCI Buss for a PCI Mass Storage Controller that has a yellow question mark over it. I don't know what that is. Nowhere in device manager do I see anything about the Promise controller but yet my hard drive works fine. Hmmm, maybe I better take another look at what is hooked up where....🙂

 

[TamerT]

Go to the Promise site and download the latest driver for the ATA66/100 controller. Promise say they don't support embedded controllers in the sense of actual support (email, tel, etc.) and bios updates, but the drivers DO support the BXmaster. I've owned one myself for 18 months and it was the best mobo I've ever used. No words would do this mobo justice @144 FSB. Too bad I upgraded to i850+RDRAM.