broccolibeef

Thanks to everyone who has replied! Everything is working FINE, except that
they are not perfect! For instance, I would like my HD to be recognized as
an SATA drive, because it is one in actuality and correctly recognized under
XP! Under Vista, at this moment, it is only recognized as an ATA drive!

With regard to Creative's sound cards, they are so prevalent on the
market--so many people have their products. I am just quite surprised that
Vista does not come with any native driver included for, at least, some of
Creative's sound cards!

Everything is working fine on my machine with Vista Ultimate (32 bit, Build
5840), but not perfect.

I am a big fan of cutting edge of technologies, especially in the PC area!

Thanks again for the reply!

"Ed_" wrote:

> 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_
>
>