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SATA Driver

Im building a new PC at home and I need some help. I have an Asus A8V Deluxe and I get get my 160GB SATA hard drive to work. I cant format the hard drive because windows doesnt know what the drive is. I think I need to press F6 during setup and install the SATA driver from a floppy. I have tried this several times and still have had no luck. Has anyone here sucessfully done this? If so how? Maybe im using the wrong driver.

Callandor

Have you gotten into the SATA BIOS and configured it properly there (RAID, non-RAID)?

crazijoe

You will probably need to enable the SATA controller in the MB BIOS also.

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Dynamic1

http://usa.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=21&l3_id=1&m_id=1&f_name=VIARAID220d.zip~zaqwedc
Try booting off the VIA SATA Driver when you press f6. For some reason the promise driver has boot problems not on all boards but on some.

DoTheDEW335

There are 3 listed on the site for that board

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A8V%20Deluxe&Type=Latest

VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.20D WHQL.
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/via/VIARAID220d.zip

Promise FastTrak 378 RAID Driver V1.00.1.37 for Windows 98SE/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378raid_100137.zip

Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 for Windows 98SE/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP/2003
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip

you asked for the last one but you might need the others.

DVation191

Promise FastTrak is an IDE driver...the author needs sata drivers..
i have posted direct links to both drivers in my above post. please try loading both of them with the F6 option.

DVation191

sorry I didnt mean ide, but sata raid...its a single drive the author is loading

AwesomeMachine

On the CD that came with the mother board is a folder with all the files you need to put on a diskette so when you hit F6 on install of windows you can feed the operating system the drivers for the SATA controller. these files are all small, there is one .inf file in the folder and the folder will be labelled or located such that you will know what the files are for. they may be in drivers, or SATA or something like that. You take all the files in that folder and put them on a diskette, and when the windows installation program says press F6, then press F6. A little later the install program will ask for the diskette. The other way is to put the diskette in the drive immediately after the CD drive is accessed to boot. Then you don't have to hit F6, the operating system installation program will automatically find the drivers.

141ANG

Wow, lots of answers all at once. First, I am not in windows, no OS installed, second the VIA controller fails if I plug any drives into it, its BIOS craps out. Third, I need x64 drivers it looks like these are all x32, so whn I do the make disk, can I specify X64 in the compatibility option? and will that work?