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MSI K7T Turbo-R and Win2000 Via Drivers

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RonB

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I just got a Q500 case and transferred all my stuff to it. Decided to run a clean install of Win 2000 for personal security reasons (wife and kids). Formated both disks, hooked them up to IDE 3 and 4, set up array, then ran Win2000. No problem. After getting up into Windows I find that my CD Roms are not there. No problem, remove SCSI drivers and re-install (from floppy). I'm screwed. Can't get my Roms back. What do I need to do now? All that is showing is A Drive, C Drive and Control Panel. I am using back up harddrive to get back on the net to ask this question, but would love to find out what I am doing wrong. I am using NTFS. I was using RAID with ME, but liked Win2000 much better. I would really appreciate any help with this.

TIA
 
I have win98 on same board. I found my plextor is not showing up on Explorer, but it has not any problem on system properties. When unchecked dma mode on the properites tab, the drive showed up on explorer, but couldn't bur any cd with inaccurate error messages.

Well, I upgraded via 4in1 4.28 from 4.26, and installed via bus master 3.11beta. Nothing changed from 4.28, I could see the drive on explorer and the program indicated my burner and dvd drives are running on dma mode w/the 3.11beta but still couldn't burn any cd.

I really pissed, before I try another version of 4in1, I wiped my c and d drvie out, and clean installed win98 w/ via 4in1 4.25. Now, everything seems working fine.
 
Hey, thanks for sharing. I finally got pissed and said screw it, just put ME back on. So I low formated the drives and re-installed ME. Guess what? Damn CD Roms still not there. Now I am getting pissed off. Now any moron can run windows, so I guess that makes me one dumb MF...haha

Really thinking about putting that Abit in this box and setting it up. No big deal, but really wanted to set this M/B up and get everything set to where I wanted it. Seems like the more you know the dumber you become. Well at least for me anyway.

So here is my question. Can anyone tell me just how to install my array (two 15 gig Maxtor HD's), what Via Drivers to install. Would perfer to set up Windows 2000, but willing to just get Windows anything in right now.

TIA
 
Ok, why don't you try cleaninstall after full format?
And don't install via 4in1 drive yet, check the explorer and system properties tab. If they're fine, and you can check dma, then don't install the ide bus master drive. Just put 3 other drivers, if you like.
I heard you really need the agp driver only, and yet some people have no problem w/o the whole 4 in 1 driver.
 
I've done something like this to myself before: Make sure the BIOS is setup correctly. Make sure it sees your CD ROMS, etc. When you boot up it should show up in the list with any hard drives, etc. installed onto IDE 1 or 2. I had them turned off in the BIOS, and wasn't watching the PC boot up, and of course when I got into Windows they weren't there.

I wasn't running SCSI though, perhaps that's different. Maybe an idea anyway...
 
Ron, this sounds very similar to the problems I had with the MSI K7T when I installed the 4in1 drivers from the CD included with the mobo. The short version of what I had to do to get the board working correctly with mass storage was to install Win2k (from a totally reformatted hard drive) then let the official Microsoft Windows Update site determine which Via drivers to install. Installing the drivers as recommended on the MSI supplemental CD with the Via drivers resulted in missing devices, and soon in a totally unbootable hard drive. Recapping what worked for me:

Remove hardware not required for OS install. (Sound cards, ethernet, etc.)
Wipe the hard drive and reformat.
Install Windows 2000.
After the OS boots on its own from the hard drive, before adding any drivers (e.g. video) fire up the default Internet Explorer and go to the MS 'doze update site. Have it look your system over and at the bottom of multiple screens there is a selection for the Via chipset. Let the MS site install the Via drivers it deems necessary. (I think it was only the DMA one in my case.)
Do the reboot as required, then finish installing drivers and sequentially plugging in peripherials.

Good luck.

Edit note: I have cable modem so had to have NIC installed to get at Microsoft site. The NIC was installed immediately after OS was fully installed.
 
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