A8n32-SLI and Vista

[jvi]

Hi,

anyone has tried to install vista on such motherboard. I have 4 disks
attached to the nVidia Raid (2 in raid 0 where XP il loaded) . During the
Vista setup (launched from XP), I selected one of the SATA spare HD, and
also selected load drivers. I used the Raid beta drivers from nvidia, but
it seems that is not working. At reboot I get
"An error accurred while locating the drive onto which Windows is being
installed"

I tried installing Vista without loading any driver for the controller, but
at reboot I get BSOD
error 7B.


Any clue

 

[Ron Farren]

I have sucessfully installed Vista to the A8N32-SLI Premium with AMD 64
3500+ and 1GB of memory. I installed a spare 80GB drive left over from an
old computer and put Vista (64 Bit) there. I was actually rather pleased
that Vista wouldn't recognize the SATA RAID drives. By using features from
the BIOS to determine which drive to boot from, I now have the best of both
worlds. Vista can't SEE my XP drives which makes me feel more comfortable.
If there is anything I need to transfer to Vista, merely boot to XP, copy
data to the 80GB drive and reboot to Vista. I don't have to worry about the
complications of boot managers which have a history of causing grief.

It would be nice to have all the drivers to make everything work but, after
all, this is a BETA. The HP printer works fine in pure text mode after
installing the Generic printer that seems to be able to work with just about
anything. At this stage of "playing around", I really don't need much more
that text output. Fancy graphics can wait until HP can catch up.

Now if I could only get the TV tuner to work.........

Ron

 

[Guest]

I have the A8N-SLI mobo with the 4800 processor and can't find a way to
install the SATA RAID drivers, other than the upgrade install. Did this and
got a blue screen. Good thing I have a retail version of XP Pro...

From what you write the ones for Vista are different and downloadable from
ASUS. I'll check it out and get back to you.

I'm not having much luck here either, but I'll keep plugging away. I
remember getting one of the original versions of windows 95 and all the
problems with that operating system. With any new operating system there are
incompatibilites they don't know of yet.