Vista - promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378)

Hi All

I really hope you can help me with this.

I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it
won’t see my SATA Hard drives – as expected but the problem is it wont
recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.

First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and
it didn’t even see the drivers.

Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the
floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378
driver to install it gave me the Following message:
“The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device
driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and
located on the driver instillation media.�

Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and
two with those drivers – same result with the same message.

Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread -
same result with the same message.

And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed
on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Reb

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Reb

If, as you say, you have XP installed on a 2nd hard drive (with Promis RAID
drivers working), then I suggest you install Vista via that XP installation
instead of booting from the Vista DVD.

Dave


"Reb" <Reb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D49DB12-A82B-4424-9BE1-1C6B9E7A2DB8@microsoft.com...
> Hi All
>
> I really hope you can help me with this.
>
> I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo - when I try to install Vista
> it
> won't see my SATA Hard drives - as expected but the problem is it wont
> recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
>
> First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and
> it didn't even see the drivers.
>
> Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the
> floppy - it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378
> driver to install it gave me the Following message:
> "The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 T Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)]
> device
> driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and
> located on the driver instillation media."
>
> Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one
> and
> two with those drivers - same result with the same message.
>
> Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread -
> same result with the same message.
>
> And lastly - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
>
> These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just
> installed
> on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Reb
>
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Dave

Sounds great - how do i do that?

Reb

"Dave Johnson" wrote:

> Reb
>
> If, as you say, you have XP installed on a 2nd hard drive (with Promis RAID
> drivers working), then I suggest you install Vista via that XP installation
> instead of booting from the Vista DVD.
>
> Dave
>
>
> "Reb" <Reb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3D49DB12-A82B-4424-9BE1-1C6B9E7A2DB8@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All
> >
> > I really hope you can help me with this.
> >
> > I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo - when I try to install Vista
> > it
> > won't see my SATA Hard drives - as expected but the problem is it wont
> > recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
> >
> > First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and
> > it didn't even see the drivers.
> >
> > Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the
> > floppy - it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378
> > driver to install it gave me the Following message:
> > "The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 T Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)]
> > device
> > driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and
> > located on the driver instillation media."
> >
> > Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one
> > and
> > two with those drivers - same result with the same message.
> >
> > Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread -
> > same result with the same message.
> >
> > And lastly - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
> >
> > These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just
> > installed
> > on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
> >
> > Any help would be really appreciated.
> >
> > Reb
> >
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> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
> >
> > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...allation_setup
>
>
>