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Vista 64 install

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jphoto801

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Preface: Using a Biostar TFORCE TF7050-M2 motherboard, and a BenQ 1620 DVD drive.

So, now that SP1 is around, I decided to take a dive into the Vista pool finally. I'm trying to install from the Vista DVD into a 2ed partition I set aside for it (SATA hard drive, IDE DVD drive). I'm prompted for CD/DVD drivers...which surprised me, considering...it's a simple IDE drive.

I do some searching and reading, and I found out that perhaps the message is badly worded, it's actually looking for SATA drivers for the hard drive. This also struck me as odd, SATA isn't exactly new either, anymore. So anyway, I put the nforce chipset drivers onto a USB flash drive, can browse to that no problem, but none of the SATA or SATA-RAID drivers are accepted (not using RAID anyway, disabled in bios, all SATA drives are in IDE mode).

This is such a basic error that many of you must have seen this...right?
 
Yeah I think I fought with that one for a few hours.

Sometimes the error message is just wrong in that it means CD/DVD vs SATA.

Other times it is even MORE wrong and it really doesn't need a driver at all, it is just messed up.

You won't get very far with the NF chipset drivers IIRC unless you FULLY expand them... .EXE files or .CAB files will not do... you need to expand them out to basically .INF, .SYS, etc. type files from their installer or whatever... then point vista to the directory tree with the expanded drivers in them and it'll see it.

Also in my case at least the last time I dealt with this cr*p Vista wasn't liking something about my BIOS settings that related to the CD/DVD drive.. in my case it was USB 2.0 High speed vs full speed hand off or whatever since I use an USB DVD.

In your case I'd check things like PNP OS Installed? {YES/NO}, host controller mode =
{AHCI / IDE / RAID / whatever}, try to make the DVD drive a MASTER instead of a SLAVE, or change it to be PRIMARY/MASTER if the rest of your IDE slots are empty....

Vista's installer sucks... it took hours of playing with drivers, BIOS settings, drive jumpers, etc. to get it to install whereas XP installed on the SAME PC no problems no added drivers like 30 minutes before I started installing VISTA.

 
Yes, they're all expanded. Vista can see the list of drivers, it just won't accept them.

Should not be a USB issue, it's a basic internal IDE DVD drive.

Making DVD drive a master rather then slave? That seems...really odd. Every 2ed install of Vista would fail. 😛 Anyway, I can try it I guess.

UPDATE: I have an identical BenQ 1620 in my other system (except it's beige instead of black). I swapped them, and Vista installs with the beige one. The black one, now in the other PC, seems to work fine...it reads, it burns, etc. Craziness.

Beige computer parts rule?
 
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