Vista - I need help Bad with VISTA Home Premium 64

As you can see below in my signature, this is a pretty strong system. I also
have 3 SATA WD Cavier SE16 250 gb SATA hard drives. Now that being said I
cannot get VISTA to load on anything but an IDE hard drive I have left over
from an older sytem, only 30 GB. After the initial loading of the temp
software, (on SATA or SATA RAID) I get a message that the driver is missing
for the DVD/CD drive (SATA) and to install it. Well, no matter what I try it
will not find a driver. So I go into the bios and I switch it from RAID to
regular SATA -AHCI. Now the BIOS sees the drives, but the OS does not. I
try to load the drivers and I keep getting nothing. All the drivers show as
not compatible with VISTA. I have tried everything I can think of, every
BIOS setting and all kinds of drivers and downloads. Please help me, I am
not dumb, I use to do this for a living and never had this mush trouble out
of an OS. I think I will go back to Win XP 64.
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Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W

Go the the hard drive manufact's,and download the SATA drive for it.
Put it on a Mem stick, and with your setup, try installing on just one SATA
drive.
When you install, it will prompt you for the driver for the HDD

"Ed" wrote:

From your signature it looks like you are running with less than 4 Gigs of
RAM.

One of the reasons to use a 64-bit OS is so that you can use 4 Gigs of RAM
or more.

While the 64-bit OS in itself doesn't have issues, there are compatibility
issues with software programs and drivers. Using it will risk such issues -
and if you don't have the hardware that it takes advantage of, why bother?


"Ed" <Ed@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3C86CC09-5C4B-4FB8-97A0-08ED2927F22A@xxxxxx

OK, I will try that before I call Microsoft, Thanks. And Boy you guys are
rough.

Ed
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Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W


"Mick Murphy" wrote:

Well other than you all coming here to bust on each other no one helped me a
bit. I understand about the memory but that has nothing to do with what is
going on.
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Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W


"Xenomorph" wrote: