Asus P5L-MX problem with U-ATA driver ?

Hi, I'm new here, hope to find some help!
Nice forum by the way!
Also I’m new to vista x64, installed Vista Business x64 just a week ago. Before that I was running Xp x64 and Vista Home Premium x86 in 2 different partitions. Everything worked like a charm! Until I decided to upgrade to vista x64.
My system:
Pentium 4 Dual Core D805 2.66 GHz (@ 3.5 GHz )
Asus P5L-MX
4 GB 667 MHz Crucial Ram (Over clocked of course)
2x WD 250GB SATA2 Drives
LG DVD-RAM
One old TEAC CD-Rom
First of all deleted the partition of vista x86 and cleaned the mbr. Leaved Xp in place, just in case. Then I tried to make a “clean” install booting from the Vista x64 DVD.I stuck when the installation needed for a driver. Everything showed up normally if I clicked browse. Downloaded the latest INF drivers from Asus for vista64.loaded in the installation but then if I clicked browse the CD-rom and the DVD-ram disappeared. Tried the same thing with old drives with no result.
Decided to make a “flat” install from xp(Not update).Vista Installed but something wrong with the U-ATA controller. When I put a DVD or a cd in my drives, starting to spin, trying to read but nothing! In my computer it recognizes that there is media in the drive (icon changes) but it is not readable or accessible in any way! Device manager shows that everything works correct.
Thanks in advance

Just updated both drives with the latest firmware, guess what…same problem, no fix.

Also updated to the latest Inf drivers from Intel. Nothing changed.

Please give some advise!
Please help !

til3tsio said:

Hi, I'm new here, hope to find some help!
Nice forum by the way!
Also I’m new to vista x64, installed Vista Business x64 just a week ago. Before that I was running Xp x64 and Vista Home Premium x86 in 2 different partitions. Everything worked like a charm! Until I decided to upgrade to vista x64.
My system:
Pentium 4 Dual Core D805 2.66 GHz (@ 3.5 GHz )
Asus P5L-MX
4 GB 667 MHz Crucial Ram (Over clocked of course)
2x WD 250GB SATA2 Drives
LG DVD-RAM
One old TEAC CD-Rom
First of all deleted the partition of vista x86 and cleaned the mbr. Leaved Xp in place, just in case. Then I tried to make a “clean” install booting from the Vista x64 DVD.I stuck when the installation needed for a driver. Everything showed up normally if I clicked browse. Downloaded the latest INF drivers from Asus for vista64.loaded in the installation but then if I clicked browse the CD-rom and the DVD-ram disappeared. Tried the same thing with old drives with no result.
Decided to make a “flat” install from xp(Not update).Vista Installed but something wrong with the U-ATA controller. When I put a DVD or a cd in my drives, starting to spin, trying to read but nothing! In my computer it recognizes that there is media in the drive (icon changes) but it is not readable or accessible in any way! Device manager shows that everything works correct.
Thanks in advance

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Is the Vista DVD being read for the CD/DVD-ROM? Are you saying that Vista ran

What SATA port is the DVD drive on? Also when got stuck Vista was probably asking for the SATA/RAID/AHCI drivers. To install those when Vista asks if you want to install additional drivers by pressing F6, press F6 and install your SATA drivers. (See image) You could try installing them now but it probably won't work because they usually the need to be installed with the Vista install, So you may have to reinstall Vista, but first try these -

Check BIOS to see if CD ROM shows there (It should since you used it?) While you're there, check IDE/SATA/RAID configuration.

And...if you can get into XP, see if the drive is working there? If not, its probably a bad drive or incorrectly configured in BIOS.



You might want to look this - http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html?filter

Dvd drive isn't a sata drive, it's ide .It shows on bios and on vista too.But it doesn't work as it should.(Read my first post again for details)
Drives are working in dos,xp and linux

Your post is a little unclear.

Try this - You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31". Yeah I know it says it's for disaperaing drives on XP, but it works under Vista and it might help you.

Tried already with no luck.

still no luck , I have tried everything, please help