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I first posted this problem on the hardware forum when XP had trouble
recognizing a new SATA drive. I received no replies, so I'm trying here. When
I first posted I was only trying to install the large SATA drive. I installed
and played with settings in bios, etc., setting the new drive as IDE, (MOBO
supports), with Promise IDE, and with Intel RAID controllers configure and
drivers loaded. Again, anything that I had a disk for in the way of drivers
loaded fine. Anything that XP was supposed to already know about wouldn't.
My computer seems to be no longer able to automatically load any device
drivers from XP where the manufacturer says no drivers needed for 2000 or XP.
Any device driver for which I have the media loads OK.
I have SP2 loaded as of late October. I don't know if this is the culprit
because I had not tried to load any new devices for some time before SP2 was
installed.
Since my first post about the problems with the Maxtor 250MB SATA, I have
gone ahead and installed a Plextor DVDR (PX-712A) which claims it uses XP
drivers and a Pinnacle studio AV/DV.
The Pinnacle system had its own drivers on disk for the capture card (except
for the firewire which should be recognized by XP). All the Pinnacle features
except firewire are working fine.
The Plextor and Maxtor cannot find drivers and on each boot up will ask for
driver installation. Interestingly, if I cancel the install wizard, the
Maxtor and Plextor do show up on the device manager and do work. If I go
ahead with trying to let XP automatically install the drivers, they won't
install and show up with yellow flag on device driver.
What files are missing or corrupted that should enable this automatic
install? How can I correct this?
recognizing a new SATA drive. I received no replies, so I'm trying here. When
I first posted I was only trying to install the large SATA drive. I installed
and played with settings in bios, etc., setting the new drive as IDE, (MOBO
supports), with Promise IDE, and with Intel RAID controllers configure and
drivers loaded. Again, anything that I had a disk for in the way of drivers
loaded fine. Anything that XP was supposed to already know about wouldn't.
My computer seems to be no longer able to automatically load any device
drivers from XP where the manufacturer says no drivers needed for 2000 or XP.
Any device driver for which I have the media loads OK.
I have SP2 loaded as of late October. I don't know if this is the culprit
because I had not tried to load any new devices for some time before SP2 was
installed.
Since my first post about the problems with the Maxtor 250MB SATA, I have
gone ahead and installed a Plextor DVDR (PX-712A) which claims it uses XP
drivers and a Pinnacle studio AV/DV.
The Pinnacle system had its own drivers on disk for the capture card (except
for the firewire which should be recognized by XP). All the Pinnacle features
except firewire are working fine.
The Plextor and Maxtor cannot find drivers and on each boot up will ask for
driver installation. Interestingly, if I cancel the install wizard, the
Maxtor and Plextor do show up on the device manager and do work. If I go
ahead with trying to let XP automatically install the drivers, they won't
install and show up with yellow flag on device driver.
What files are missing or corrupted that should enable this automatic
install? How can I correct this?