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In article <E055C549-546F-444B-9F7E-62F2DE8AB398@microsoft.com>,
=?Utf-8?B?YnJvY2NvbGliZWVm?= says...
>
>This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of
>Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los
>Angeles.
>
>First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with
>BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not
>recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels
>are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this
>experience?
>
>Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound
>card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update,
>there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for
>the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build
>5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who
>have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the
>aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard?
>
>Thanks in advance for any info!

My Vista build is on another board but I do have the A8N-E with MCE 2005 and my
Sata is listed in DM as a PCI Controller drive. From what I understand this is
not unusual at all, especially if you do not load the SATA driver or the bios.
I never did but I boot from this drive and everything runs fine.

How does the drive show in the bios? Mine shows in the bios. As long as it is
fine there, I wouldn't sweat it.

Ed_