Please, I need some EXPERT help

[Guest]

I have posted this question elsewhere in the forums here, but obviously I
need expert help.

I'll try to make the details short, as I am not a novice. I am running an
ECS D6VAA with dual PIII 933's, the board has an onboard second IDE
controller, a Highpoint HPT370. I am running win xp pro SP2 embedded. This
is my old board, I have already migrated everything to a PD 805, but now want
to use the old one as a server. I have the orignal MB CD, and have d/l every
other driver known to man, every where all over the world.

My problem is that I can't get my current (validated) install of windows to
load the driver for the HPT370. the sessage I get while trying is:

"The driver installation file for this device is missing a nessessary
entry. This may be because the INF was written for Windows 95 or later.
Please contact your hardware vendor"

OK, the board I mentioned is no longer supported by ECS, however I have had
this board and onboard HPT370 working before with about two or three previous
intalls of win xp pro.

Another curious thing is that the bios sees the controller, the controller's
bios sees the drives, and when I boot from a CD, namely a Western Digital
Data Lifeguard CD, it will see the controller, and give me the names I gave
these drives when they were active on this MB before.

So, in closing, are there any REAL pros out here, or do I have to take my
chances with re-installing from my OEM disk and have a "too many activation"
message, or should I just go ahead and install Linux and say to heck with it?

p.s. Yeah, I wanna try Linux, but wanted to get it all working with win b4
I do . . .

 

[V Green]

Had the same problem with my D6VAA.

Short version is this - support for the HPT370 controller
was removed/disabled/somehow screwed over by SP2
IF you install directly to SP2.

It works fine with SP1A.

How I got it to work (note that I was using a full version
of XP SP1A, not an OEM version - if that makes a difference):

Install XP SP1A. Verify everything works. If SP2
does not add anything you need (it doesn't here - I don't
run it) you can stop right there.

Install SP2. It *should not touch* the existing SP1
install for the HPT 370, as that support was removed
in SP2.

I used to have some specific language about the details
of this issue, but I can't find them right now. I'll post back
if I do.

found it.

http://icrontic.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-18162.html

This worked too (the Registry permissions thing - scroll to
bottom of page), as I remember (long time ago).

 

[Guest]

YES, YES, YES!! Finally! Whoo Hoo! I don't have a way to roll back to
SP1A, as my Win Disk is the hologram 2002 version, I followed the link you
posted and did what was posted towards the bottom like you said, and BAM,
got-r-done.

Thank you very much, the other answers I had to this problem hadn't really
read all the details of my question.

And, bye the way, Thank you,

Ted

 

[V Green]

Glad to hear it worked.

It's a very screwy problem...