Vista - Missing hard disk driver, can't install VISTA

I'm having the Asus A8N-SLI SE mobo, trying to install the latest Vista 64Bit
Beta.
After entering the serial, I'm being ask for a driver disk to submit the
hard disk driver - we know this already from WinXP installations - only, that
this time none of the drivers I could find on my CD or on the Silicon Image
website work (it's a SIi3114 chipset).
I'm just using one SATA drive, no RAID.

Many of you must have a similar setup, which I imagine is very commone, so
how did you do it? Which driver did you use?

And to Microsoft: why is the BROWSE button unusable? At least I would like
to browse a CD rather than copy stuff onto my floppy disk (how old
fashioned!) with every new attempt. Takes so much time!!!

Naujoks wrote:
> I'm having the Asus A8N-SLI SE mobo, trying to install the latest Vista 64Bit
> Beta.
> After entering the serial, I'm being ask for a driver disk to submit the
> hard disk driver - we know this already from WinXP installations - only, that
> this time none of the drivers I could find on my CD or on the Silicon Image
> website work (it's a SIi3114 chipset).
> I'm just using one SATA drive, no RAID.
>
> Many of you must have a similar setup, which I imagine is very commone, so
> how did you do it? Which driver did you use?
>
> And to Microsoft: why is the BROWSE button unusable? At least I would like
> to browse a CD rather than copy stuff onto my floppy disk (how old
> fashioned!) with every new attempt. Takes so much time!!!

How many drives do you have? If you're not using RAID, why don't you
have the drive connected to one of the four nVidia SATA ports. NO
driver is required for OS setup if you're connected to the nVidia SATA
with nVidia RAID disabled in BIOS. I had no trouble installing that way
on my A8N-SLI Premium.

Real simple, I assume your using SATA drives. Your A8N-SLI is an nForce 4
board correct? So what you have to do is goto www.nvidia.com goto drivers and
select the BETA drivers section. There are Beta drivers for nForce 4 boards
for Vista. You extract the files and put the nvraid, not SIlimages, on a CD
and use those when Vista prompts. The URL is:

For x86
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_do...x86_beta2.html

For 64bit
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_do...x64_beta2.html




"Naujoks" wrote:

> I'm having the Asus A8N-SLI SE mobo, trying to install the latest Vista 64Bit
> Beta.
> After entering the serial, I'm being ask for a driver disk to submit the
> hard disk driver - we know this already from WinXP installations - only, that
> this time none of the drivers I could find on my CD or on the Silicon Image
> website work (it's a SIi3114 chipset).
> I'm just using one SATA drive, no RAID.
>
> Many of you must have a similar setup, which I imagine is very commone, so
> how did you do it? Which driver did you use?
>
> And to Microsoft: why is the BROWSE button unusable? At least I would like
> to browse a CD rather than copy stuff onto my floppy disk (how old
> fashioned!) with every new attempt. Takes so much time!!!