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Want to cry. Asus P4pe MBoard...Vista??

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Spike30

Junior Member
Hello...
I feel like an idiot...Been building computers for years yet I cannot seem to figure out how to get Vista installed on my system now!!?? I cannot seem to locate the driver Vista is asking for on the clean install.

They want me to locate the driver for the Primary IDE channel (that I should so easily find on my MBoard install disk). Nothing on that disk works. :disgust:
No driver that I could locate on the Asus site appears to work. :disgust:

Tried the Promise Raid driver on the site...No go there!! Am I missing something!!???😕

I have a Asus P4pe Mother board, a Intel P4 overclocked to 2.4Ghz...1.5g Ram...The "Vista Advisor" tells me it should work...

Upgrading from XP doesn't seem to work...so I am desparately trying to do a clean install and getting stuck w/ this stupid driver deal...Please help w/ ideas...

Thank you so much!
Ross
 
I can only tell you my own experience. I have two main computers. Both have P4PE mobos. One has a better CPU (3 GHz) while the other has a 2.5 GHz. And the 2.5 machine has an ATI X1300 vid card. The 3.0 machine has a X1600 with 512 MB. Otherr than that, they are about the same.

I could not do a Vista upgrade on either machine. But, I could do a clean install on the 2.5 machine. It has been great - Vista Ultimate running perfectly now for over a month.

The great dissapointment is I cannot do a similar clean install on the more capable machine It gets right down to the last phase and goes into a loop which results in a memory unload and nothing.

I can't explain it. I can only shrug my shoulders and say stuff happens.

One P4PE does and the other doesn't. Go figure.

BTW - the one that works has no Promise SATA RAID enabled. I tried shutting that down for the other - but it didn't help. ???
 
Thank you...But I give up...A stupid OS upgrade on a decent computer should not be this freaking difficult!:| ...seriously though...I am insanely mad right now that this has taken HOURS of my time just to find a stupid IDE Diver that in my opinion VISTA SHOULD HAVE!!! Why did XP have the mysterious IDE Driver & Vista does not!!??? What a waste of 150 bucks...

I have a very common Motherboard as well..(Asus P4PE)...For that matter, why have I spend hours on the Asus site not to see any mention of the mysterious Primary IDE Channel driver that Vista needs...????!!!!!

Microsoft Vista and ASUS, YOU SUCK! Thanks for letting me vent guys...:|
 
While reaching out to ASUS for help, this is the B/S generic response I get. I have over the years regarded ASUS as one of the premium boards & have used them to build many systems. Disapointing to get a generic answer like that. Guess I will go elsewhere when I build my next system. Thx a bunch ASUS.🙁

Date:2007-05-15 22:48:42

This board is not vista compatible. If you want drivers you will need to contact the manufacturers of the hardware thats on the board to obtain the drivers.


Please do not respond to this email. If you need further assistance contact Technical Support at 502-995-0883 (M-F 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM EST).

 
Originally posted by: Spike30
While reaching out to ASUS for help, this is the B/S generic response I get. I have over the years regarded ASUS as one of the premium boards & have used them to build many systems. Disapointing to get a generic answer like that. Guess I will go elsewhere when I build my next system. Thx a bunch ASUS.🙁

Date:2007-05-15 22:48:42

This board is not vista compatible. If you want drivers you will need to contact the manufacturers of the hardware thats on the board to obtain the drivers.


Please do not respond to this email. If you need further assistance contact Technical Support at 502-995-0883 (M-F 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM EST).
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Now THAT is terrible customer service! Anyway, I would try these things :

(1)- Update bios
(2)- Reset cmos
(3)- DO NOT O/C while installing OS, even if it's been stable for years
(4)- Is your hd Sata? It appears that your mobo uses a Promise Sata150 chipset for the sata controller, you might find help loading the driver from a floppy during setup :

http://www.promise.com/support/download...roductId=97&category=driver&os=0&go=GO

Good luck 🙁
 
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