Getting onboard RAID Going on an ASUS Motherboard

[Guest]

I have a ASUS P5RD2-VM motherboard and it uses the ULI M1575 Southbridge RAID
controller (An onboard controller). There is not option to turn it on and off
in the BIOS (I assume because it is a SATA RAID solution that it is just
always on and can find nothing to the contrary).

But, when I go to the ASUS web site and try to acquire the RAID controller
drivers, they are listed in Windows 2003, XP, etc. Nothing available for
Vista (And when I launch the installers, it stops saying no OS supported).

So I went to the ULI site and it downloads a .RAR file. I have no idea what
to do with the file and there is no documentation?

On the ASUS site, they do not acknowledge this motherboard as supported yet
and in the device manager I do not get an error saying device not found (i.e.
Was hoping it would identify the RAID card and not be able to find it, so
that I could point it to the driver files that I have in the .ZIP file that I
cannot run from ASUS).

So, I am a bit lost. Don't know how to get this RAID card working. Any
advice is appreciated. I put in a support request from ASUS, but I have not
found their support all that great and expect a 'We do not support that with
Vista yet' response.

Any ideas appreciated.

 

[Todd Hudson]

See if Asus has a beta Vista driver. if so, put it on a cd or floppy. During
the install of Vista, press F6 to enter a new driver. Follow the prompts.

Or wait until a Vista driver is released.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

So I went to the ULI site and it downloads a .RAR file. I have no idea
what
to do with the file and there is no documentation?

Get WinRAR to open the .rar archive. I belive the latest version of WinZip
can open .rar files now too.


www.rarlabs.com

www.winzip.com

ss.