SCSI Controller

[Guest]

When I run the Windows Vista Beta on my computer and it is on the
compatiblity stage, I get this message....

Contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for these devices.

VAX347S SCSI Controller

How do I updated this device f possible. Here are my computer specs.

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2
Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz
2 DDR slots for RAM....768 MB of RAM ( 2 X 128 and 2 X 256)
40 GB IDE Hard drive
250 GB IDE Hardrive
Radeon X1600Pro 512MB AGP SB Edition

Please help me out so I may be able to run Windows Vista. Thank You.

 

[Mike Bernstein]

Does XP have a built-in driver for this card? If so you may be able to use
this in Vista. To do this try the following:

1) Using Device Manager in XP, look at the drivers currently loaded for the
card (properties and driver details).

2) Note the location of the file(s) (usually 'Windows\System32\Drivers') and
copy the file(s) to a blank floppy disk.

3) Run a search on all files in 'Windows\inf' for any files containing
VAX347S. One of these should be a '*.inf'.

4) Copy this file to the same floppy disc. If it has the name 'oem?.inf',
rename it to something meaningful like 'vax347s.inf'.

5) If you do not find a '*.inf' file in this way, copy the file
'pnpscsi.inf' to your floppy disk.

6) Boot into Vista and when it asks for a driver for your SCSI card, tell it
that you have a disk.

I cannot guarantee that this will work but it did work for my Advansys SCSI
card and also for the Umax scanner that was attached to the SCSI. Both of
these had drivers built-in to XP.

Of course, if your card does not have drivers built-in to XP, you must have
obtained them from somewhere else for XP and those same drivers may work in
Vista.

Mike Bernstein

 

[Guest]

how could this work? how can you boot into vista when you cant get past the
compatibilty stage of the install? just wondering cos i have the same
problem. :/

 

[Guest]

I had the same message pop up. The VAX347S SCSI Controller is one of
either two things, that I know of: the virtual drive handler for Alcohol120%
OR the virtual drive handler for Deamon Tools. If you're using a CD/DVD
burning software with an enabled virtual drive, try disabling it for the
WinVista install, ignore it, or uninstall the program completely. Your pick
- either way, it's really not important.

Just be sure if you're installing WinVista on a system that uses a
legitamite IDE / SCSI controller, that you're not using the default Microsoft
drivers - I was, and WinVista proclaimed it was "Unable to find hard drive
containing Windows Vista Install Files."

Whichever programmer thought that it'd be a grand idea to have a delay of
TWO SECONDS on the Multiple OS Boot Screen: I hate you. I had to pound F8
relentlessly to get into the advanced options for the WinVista Setup Rollback
(which couldn't roll anything back, being that it could not find the drive to
start with), and then quickly (read simultainiously) press Escape and the up
arrow to select "Previous Windows Operating System" so I could Boot to an OS.

Universal rule: ten seconds MINIMUM of selection time on important things
like this. Helps prevent infinite reboots.

 

[Guest]

Can you please help me? i have this exact same problem and i haven't been
able to fix it. PLEASE!

 

[Doug]

Well, you could remove the card, install Vista and try to install the SCSI
card later.
And if that don't work go for a cheap Adaptec SCSI card.

Doug

 

[Guest]

well i did like this.. i went to device manager found the files and copy as
backup .. went back and disable and unistall it then i install windows
vista after installation i add driver back and install driver and
works fine.


I guess this Micro... dont give damn for users

 

[Guest]

I get this this message when, "Unable to find hard drive containing Windows
Vista Install Files." So what exactly do I need to do to get rid of this?
Just make sure the drivers that are default?

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem with the Vax347s. I removed the driver and upgraded to
Vista. The system wouldn't boot. Tryed sereval times. My only question is if
I do a full set-up and it deletes xp will it boot into vista