Promise FastTrak 378 Driver & Asus MB

[kaberdog99]

I have an ASUS MB P4C800Deluxe and I am trying to use the S-ATA interface with ATA to S-ATA converters. I don't seem to be able to get the driver for the S-ATA ports to load. I tried getting the Promise 378 driver to load but can't seem to get it to do so, or if I did then something is amis. If I now have the Promise controller enabled in the bios I can't even get XP to come up proper. I no longer have the hard drive and CD-RW attached via the ATA to S-ATA converters and I have the Promise controller disabled in the bios so I can get XP back up and working. Can someone tell me how to get this working? I have tried everything I can think of. I have never been able to get the Promise driver to load with this ASUS mother board. I understand computers pretty well but this has me baffeled. Before I attempted to load the driver for the controller I had the yellow question icon in device manager for the raid controller. For the past year or two I did not care as I had no reason to try to use the Promise S-ATA controller. Tonight I did what appeared to be the required steps to install the driver and the icon is gone now but no longer can I get the resource for the controller visible in device manager. If I go back into the bios and enable the Promise controller again then I am pretty sure XP will not come back up normal again.

[PaCiNoLiFe]

Sorry about your troubles dude but I just went through a major crisis with a system with a Asus motherboard and the SATA setup was a nightmare for me. I found the problem in my case to be the actual windows xp cd that i slipstreamed sp2 on just wouldn't except the driver's properly so luckily after a mind tormenting hour I tried the original windows xp sp1 i created the sp2 cd out of and everything seemed to go smoothly after that. For safe measures I loaded the raid utility and drivers when windows xp came up just incase. Looking at the bios history from your specific motherboard at there site seems like a sata fix for each update they have done so be sure to have the latest bios which I believe is 1019. Check this thread out they are using the same promise 378 drivers that asus uses and look what the cause was promise driver issue Hope this helps

[kaberdog99]

Thank you for the response. I have been working on some major network problems so this had to take a back burner for a few days. Long days and long nights lately. I went through the thread you sent. I have not delt with what you call slipstreaming. I have not been to green machine either. Got more to learn here. I usually do a pretty straight forward install and do not need to do back flips through flaming hoops. It seems like the more I do to/with this machine the more I have to learn. Keeps me on my toes. I will give this more effort. Thanks. I am on the most recent driver for the P4C800Delux MB 1019.002 - 10.12.2004. I always dread the ASUS site for downloads. Their FTP server seems to be slow or is always busy due to people having to upgrade their BIOS or something.

[kaberdog99]

OK now I get it. I went to Green Machine and checked it out. This is the way to go. Got some work to do but this sounds promising. It has always bothered me that after the install/reinstall I have had to do all the updates to get back to where I was or beyond. Like I need to get ghost as well and stop the messing around here. My wife hates to see me tinkering with the computer. She always asks if the backup is current. It sort of has to be it seems like. I usually recover from the trips to the unknown but it is always with more stress than is friendly. I think I will get the Green Machine tool and get my installation in order. All this came up as my CD burner was not visible so I found a bad cable. Then I decided to use the controllers that I have and expand. Now I just need to put a new ATA cable on the DVD and CD and get the tool and try it all again. I'll get the third drive up and get a clean install and have my cake too. Well, after a thorouh thrashing I am sure.

Thanks - back to work.