Promise Rade drivers won't install!!!

[Guest]

Hi All

I really hope you can help me with this.

I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it
wont see my SATA Hard drives.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and
it didn’t even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the
floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378
driver to in stall it gave me the message that there is not the correct
driver or the driver is not on the disk.
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and
two with those drivers.
And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

These drivers work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second
hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Reb

 

[Rythan]

Hello,

Delete the textsetup.oem file from the root of the floppy and the drivers
will load. I had to do that with my ASUS motherboard with the same Promise
chipset (FastTrak 376)

Doing as above worked for me.

HTH!

R.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the post Rythan but it didn’t work.

I always get the message:
“The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device
driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and
located on the driver instillation media.â€

I know that it is the right disk and that it is not corrupt as I have just
installed Win XP on another drive using this disk. Not sure where to go from
here as I seem to have tried all I can find on line.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated!!!

Reb

 

[Guest]

Excellent, deleting the textsetup.oem was the key

 

[Guest]

I'm in the same sinking Vista boat as Reb, as my Soltek S754 board has a
Fastrack 579 SATA controller (basically a tertiary IDE controller) and offers
up the same message as what Reb is getting. I have followed every suggestion,
just as Reb has, and we have no answer so far for this problem.
I am now to the point where I may just slave the second HD to my Primary IDE
cable and install Vista from there, as there is no real alternative
available. I already thought about putting my optical drive on the Promise
IDE, but the manual specifies that it is not meant for optical drives, so
scratch that plan. Anyne have a workaround ? I have so far tried three
diffferent drivers so shoot down that theory as well. Help !!