Vista needs CD/DVD driver for install? Please help

[savagexp]

Hi all. I've built a new system and intended to but vista on it, but ran into a problem.

After clicking "Install Now", a message pops up asking for a CD/DVD-ROM device driver. This, of course, is odd since it obviously has no problem reading the device, since, you know, it booted from it.

I've fed it the motherboard driver disc, no luck. I've tried a win98 boot disk, no luck.

Does anybody have any idea what could be going on?

System:

Pentium D 805
Asus P5LD2 Deluxe
2GB (2x1GB) PQI DDR2 RAM
MSI nVidia 7600 GS PCI-E
160GB SATA HDD
NEC 16x DVD-+R/W

Thanks again,
Andy

 

[CaptnKirk]

Is it a downloaded & burned ISO copy?

Sounds like the copy dropped basic CD-ROM drivers out.
Bad ISO File disc copy.

Burn another, select the slowest burn speed.

I tossed 6 bad burn discs before I got one to load everything & finish installation.

 

[savagexp]

I've attempted both the x86 and 64-bit installs. Both of my MD5 checksums are correct:

64 bit: e43502d0a15eadd551119d5639859e04
32 bit: 0e733ab1a8e8ff9a8684fd3639332773

So it's very likely something else is causing the problem.

 

[savagexp]

Turns out the Optical drives were connect to the onboard IDE RAID controller, not the standard IDE controller. Problem is now resolved.