I need help Bad with VISTA Home Premium 64

[Ed]

As you can see below in my signature, this is a pretty strong system. I also
have 3 SATA WD Cavier SE16 250 gb SATA hard drives. Now that being said I
cannot get VISTA to load on anything but an IDE hard drive I have left over
from an older sytem, only 30 GB. After the initial loading of the temp
software, (on SATA or SATA RAID) I get a message that the driver is missing
for the DVD/CD drive (SATA) and to install it. Well, no matter what I try it
will not find a driver. So I go into the bios and I switch it from RAID to
regular SATA -AHCI. Now the BIOS sees the drives, but the OS does not. I
try to load the drivers and I keep getting nothing. All the drivers show as
not compatible with VISTA. I have tried everything I can think of, every
BIOS setting and all kinds of drivers and downloads. Please help me, I am
not dumb, I use to do this for a living and never had this mush trouble out
of an OS. I think I will go back to Win XP 64.
--
Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W

 

[AlexB]

I am not an expert on hardware but I feel that you did not express yourself
correctly and this is one of the reasons nobody so far has touched your
post.

You've got 3 SATA WD Caviar 250 gb HDs. Fine. Now, my question is: were you
able to install the OS (Vista) on the C: drive?

It looks like you are unable to do it, since you mentioned 30 GB SATA. What
does is mean? Do you pull one of the 250 GB WD Caviars and plug in 30 Gb
SATA and you can install Vista?

DVD/CD drive does not seem to belong here. Why did you mention it?

Could you say that you've installed Vista but only DVD/CD drivers are not
working? So you cannot burn or what?

What you've said is totally confusing, as far as I can see but as I said, I
am no expert on hardware.

 

[Mick Murphy]

Go the the hard drive manufact's,and download the SATA drive for it.
Put it on a Mem stick, and with your setup, try installing on just one SATA
drive.
When you install, it will prompt you for the driver for the HDD

 

[Mick Murphy]

AlexB!!! Congratulations on marrying Kevpan.

You 2 can share the same medication!

Read the rubbish you wrote.
You got one thing right: "you are NOT an expert"

 

[Kevpan818]

AlexB!!! Congratulations on marrying Kevpan.

Mick!! Congratulations on becoming the first person to have your brain stem
removed. Just FYI

You 2 can share the same medication!

Send your perscription over to them so they can share. Just FYI

Read the rubbish you wrote.
You got one thing right: "you are NOT an expert"

You are a RETARD who needs help. Anger management classes should help.
Just FYI

 

[Kevpan818]

How long have you been beating your wife? Has she gotten the help she needs
to get away from you? Just FYI

 

[Mick Murphy]

I told you; no prize for seconds, retard

 

[Mick Murphy]

You came here to see what AlexB, your hubbie, was up to???

Hahahaha!

 

[AlexB]

Go the the hard drive *********manufact's*********,and download the

****SATA drive***** for it

Mick, tell me where I can go and download a ****SATA drive*** for my
computer. I will do a dozen.

Please do. I will forgive you all your transgressions and will pray for you
for the rest of my life.

I guess it is possible if you go to a ****manufatc's**** website. I've hear
that. They do have a pipeline to slipstream SATA drives via CAT6 cables.

You see, you idiot, the speller is a friend and a foe. Last time it betrayed
me when I mistyped "irritated" as "irrigated." But this morning I was about
to post this post and lo and behold the speller highlighted something what
I thought was "manufacturer's." Aha I said to myself. It is another
opportunity to kick that soft 250 lbs butt with a baseball bat. Very, very
sweet opportunity indeed.

 

[Xenomorph]

From your signature it looks like you are running with less than 4 Gigs of
RAM.

One of the reasons to use a 64-bit OS is so that you can use 4 Gigs of RAM
or more.

While the 64-bit OS in itself doesn't have issues, there are compatibility
issues with software programs and drivers. Using it will risk such issues -
and if you don't have the hardware that it takes advantage of, why bother?

 

[Ed]

OK, I will try that before I call Microsoft, Thanks. And Boy you guys are
rough.

Ed
--
Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W

 

[Ed]

Well other than you all coming here to bust on each other no one helped me a
bit. I understand about the memory but that has nothing to do with what is
going on.
--
Ed Smith
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2 GB AM2 65N R
Gigabyte Ga-Ma77DS3 MB, Kingstaon 2X1 Gig DDRII 8500 mem. Samsung SH-S203N
SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video
Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
400W

 

[Alias]

As you can see below in my signature, this is a pretty strong system. I also
have 3 SATA WD Cavier SE16 250 gb SATA hard drives. Now that being said I
cannot get VISTA to load on anything but an IDE hard drive I have left over
from an older sytem, only 30 GB. After the initial loading of the temp
software, (on SATA or SATA RAID) I get a message that the driver is missing
for the DVD/CD drive (SATA) and to install it. Well, no matter what I try it
will not find a driver. So I go into the bios and I switch it from RAID to
regular SATA -AHCI. Now the BIOS sees the drives, but the OS does not. I
try to load the drivers and I keep getting nothing. All the drivers show as
not compatible with VISTA. I have tried everything I can think of, every
BIOS setting and all kinds of drivers and downloads. Please help me, I am
not dumb, I use to do this for a living and never had this mush trouble out
of an OS. I think I will go back to Win XP 64.

Follow Mike Murphy's advice and ignore the idiots.

Alias