P5B-E Vista Ultimate RTM install problems, drivers?

[gene0915]

I got my new P5B-E a few weeks ago. Installed XP with NO problems. Trying to install Vista Ultimate RTM (32bit) and before the install gets going, a box pops up saying something about how it can't find a driver and it asks me to input a CD/DVD/USB drive to look for these drivers. Well, despite Microsoft's brain dead install telling me I can slap in a CD disc and browse it, I tried using my Asus driver CD and the CD drive is NOT an option. It doesn't show up in the list.

I know my media is good because I installed this same copy of Vista in a virtual machine on my XP system and it never asked me for these missing drivers?!

Any clues?

Only cards I have in the system is a GeForce 7600 GT PCI-e 16x and a SB Audigy 2. I have a Core 2 Duo e6300 CPU, 2 gigs of DDR2-667MHz ram, NEC 3520A DVD DL burner sitting on the JMicron controller hooked up with an 80 wire IDE ribbon cable and C: is a 160 gig SATA 3.0 Seagate and D: is a 300 gig SATA 3.0 Seagate.

 

[n7]

Hmm.

Since i have installed Vista just fine on my P5B-D (very similar), i'd lean toward the issue being what mode your SATA HDDs are set to in the bios.

If you are using AHCI, i'd guess that's what driver it wants.

I just use IDE mode, which doesn't need any drivers.


This thread might help you out btw:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1939995

 

[gene0915]

Originally posted by: n7
Hmm.

Since i have installed Vista just fine on my P5B-D (very similar), i'd lean toward the issue being what mode your SATA HDDs are set to in the bios.

If you are using AHCI, i'd guess that's what driver it wants.

I just use IDE mode, which doesn't need any drivers.


This thread might help you out btw:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1939995

My SATA C: and D: are hooked to SATA controller # 1 and 3 respectively. The Intel controller is set to "IDE". I figured to start simple and then I can try AHCI later but I can't seem to get over the Vista install hump.

 

[gene0915]

Well, did some more research and it appears the problem is that Windows Vista, during the initial setup/detection phase, tries to load drivers for my DVD burner hooked to the JMicron PATA connector. This is what it's freaking out about and can't continue. It's pathetic that Vista can boot from my DVD drive hooked to the JMicron and load the setup but then fails because it can't find a driver?! WTF?

I tried giving the Vista setup every type of JMicron driver I can find but no success. This one forum I was reading, somebody said that they found a fix by locating the driver they needed (said he had to get it from another site) but never updated his post to the magical location of this driver.

Appearently, not everyone has this issue. So, does anyone have this mysterious JMicron IDE driver for my DVD burner that Vista will accept?

(Checked ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the downloads on ASUS's site and no luck.) Or did I miss it?

 

[gene0915]

Taking a hint from a note I read elsewhere, I was able to get over THIS hump by first copying the entire Vista DVD to my external USB2 drive. Then, while Vista is booting from the DVD, keep the CTRL key down. Eventually, this dumped me out to a command prompt. I executed SETUP from the USB drive and the install took off, getting around the original problem. Now, when I select my SATA drive and hit next to actually install the OS, I get an error about "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation". I clicked on "Load Driver" and fed it the Intel Matrix AHCI floppy but it just won't go any further. Oh well, I think I'm just gonna wait until early Feb. to try this again. By that time, Vista will be avail to EVERYONE and not just us MSDN folks and companies will have to deal with updating drivers and no more "beta" drivers. Heck, NVIDIA still only has RC2 Vista drivers for their cards.

 

[n7]

Man oh man i wish i could help you better.

But i had no such issues for my installs, even with RC1.

 

[h3rman]

I have the same issue, happy that I'm not alone... (bet that youre not that happy)

Got an ASUS P5B-Deluxe/WiFi with a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 a sata raptor 36g as systemdisk, and a NEC 3520A as DVD.

I got further in installation when i got the errormessage, i chose browse and selected the dvddrive and \windows\inf (figured it had a lot of drivers)

The setup loaded for like... for ever! and then i had a list of hardware, i chose the 2port sata driver... got a little bit longer.... now i'm standing in copying windows files 0% all the time... Going to try diffrent drivers, i get back with results.