beta 2 not detecting harddisk

[Guest]

Hi

I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but
found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available.
Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise
ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a
DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk
on the ATA100 Primary.

On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying
refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box
saying none could be found.

Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for
testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using
the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to
get it working if at all possible.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards

kaitain

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

How did you launch setup, boot from the DVD or launched setup from within an
existing version of Windows? If you booted off the DVD I would try launching
setup from within XP or existing version of Windows if you have that if its
installed on your computer, choose Custom to and select the parition
dedicated to Vista.
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[Guest]

Hi Andre,

I installed from the DVD. Also I'd read that Vista needed at least 15GB
free space and the drive was only 20GB, so I wiped it clean. I could
reinstall a copy of XP and try it from there, or I could move the harddisk to
the standard IDE primary connector and try using the DVD again. I'll keep
everyone posted.

ps. Ignore the additional post as the posting window threw an error
yesterday and I assumed that this post had been lost.

Regards

Kaitain

 

[andy]

You probably need to load a Vista-compatible driver for the Promise
ATA100 interface.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Well I got Vista installed by moving the disk to the standard IDE connector,
and everything seems fine. Currently the device manager is showing a missing
mass storage controller (probably the promise chipset) and a missing "PCI
input device".

Also the machine used to crash on a regular basis which I took to be bad
capacitors on the motherboard, as everything else worked fine. Now having
the disk on the IDE connector and no hangups, bsod or random freezes. So
maybe its the promise chipset that's got a problem.

At least this is my test machine now and not my main gaming system.

Thanks for everyone's help.