p4c800-e how to install fasttrack 378 driver in XP

spot · 11-28-2003, 10:29 PM

Hey Guys,

Just wondered if anyone had this problem. I have a p4c800-e board and I installed xp but I can't seem to put in the drivers for the promise fasttrak 378 chip. I tried the drivers from the CD and from the website but everytime in the windows device manager there is a yellow ! and saying the device isn't working. This should be simple... upgrade drivers... what gives??

I guess part 2 is I wanted to know if this is possible. I basically want to attach 5 HD's and 1 cdrom on this board. All the HD's are of different sizes and I don't want RAID. I've attached 4 IDE devices on the primary and secondary ports on the MOBO and the last 2 HD's on the raid IDE slot. In the Bios, I've set the promise controller to ON and the setting to IDE instead of raid. Is this possible? Do I have to have raid on that final promise IDE port?

Much thanks,

Spot

spot · 11-28-2003, 11:04 PM

Acutally N/M,

I got it to work, I had to manually force the drivers into the IDE mode from the CD rom. If you let windows do it for you, it will not change drivers on its own, even if you point it to the IDE drivers on the cdrom.. odd.. I got all my ide devices working! yay!

Spot

**clintfan** · 11-29-2003, 12:21 PM

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had to manually force the drivers into the IDE mode from the CD rom

That sounds odd. And I have your same mobo.

All I had to do was set to IDE mode in the BIOS, install XP Pro, then go into Device Manager, right-click each yellow device, and update each one's driver using the appropriate driver downloaded from Asus. I installed the ATA driver (not the RAID driver) for the WinXP O/S (e.g. not the Win2003 version).

I didn't have to force any driver IDE modes, not even sure how you did this. I didn't even have to install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility before doing the Promise drivers, and it still worked. Later on I did apply the ICSIU (using the "AFTER" method) once I realized I needed it.

-clintfan

11-28-2003, 10:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
spot Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2 OS: XP	p4c800-e how to install fasttrack 378 driver in XP Hey Guys, Just wondered if anyone had this problem. I have a p4c800-e board and I installed xp but I can't seem to put in the drivers for the promise fasttrak 378 chip. I tried the drivers from the CD and from the website but everytime in the windows device manager there is a yellow ! and saying the device isn't working. This should be simple... upgrade drivers... what gives?? I guess part 2 is I wanted to know if this is possible. I basically want to attach 5 HD's and 1 cdrom on this board. All the HD's are of different sizes and I don't want RAID. I've attached 4 IDE devices on the primary and secondary ports on the MOBO and the last 2 HD's on the raid IDE slot. In the Bios, I've set the promise controller to ON and the setting to IDE instead of raid. Is this possible? Do I have to have raid on that final promise IDE port? Much thanks, Spot

11-28-2003, 11:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
spot Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Acutally N/M, I got it to work, I had to manually force the drivers into the IDE mode from the CD rom. If you let windows do it for you, it will not change drivers on its own, even if you point it to the IDE drivers on the cdrom.. odd.. I got all my ide devices working! yay! Spot