The promise 133 cards blow, 2 hard drives both started writing corrupted
data on 3 different cards. Moved back to the motherboard and it was fine.
"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
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>I would try contacting Promise support as they were always responsive for
>me and their solutions worked, though I don't remember how long it took as
>I haven't used one of those cards in over 5 years. Until you get Vista to
>see that card, you will not be able to even copy Vista to the drive and
>have it work, so you are stuck using the MOBO IDE until you get that
>resolved with Promise. If you have to start replacing anything, consider
>moving to SATA as that is what will be most useful when you move forward to
>newer equipment. There wasn't much difference between the 100 and 133
>anyway except for many small reads. Also, your PCI bus might not even
>support the higher speeds.
>
>
> "zagith" <> wrote in message
> news:B01041D3-265A-4538-B551-...
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Promise does not have a specific driver for 32 vs. 64, they only show one
>> driver for Vista: Ultra 133 TX2 52.09KB v2.1.0.3 Windows 2007/4/24
>>
>> Once I select the desired driver, it accesses the floppy drive and the
>> status bar in the Vista Installation grows as though it downloaded the
>> necessary information. But when I select to refresh it still does not
>> list
>> the drives on those IDE ports.
>>
>> "John Barnes" wrote:
>>
>>> Make sure you have the correct drivers for the Vista version you are
>>> installing 32 or 64 bit. I have never had any luck moving a drive from
>>> the
>>> MOBO controller to a Promise controller, and they advise to copy the
>>> data
>>> (system) onto a drive after installing on their card. You would have to
>>> install it on your MOBO, then back it up, move the drive to the Promise
>>> card
>>> and they reload it. You would have to install the drivers while
>>> connected
>>> to the MOBO. You should not have to do this as you should be able to
>>> supply
>>> the drivers when you get to the point where you select the drive, that
>>> is
>>> where you supply the drivers for the card.
>>>
>>> "zagith" <> wrote in message
>>> news:235F814B-3146-467C-B4E2-...
>>> >I am trying to install Vista Ultimate on my current XP Pro machine. I
>>> >plan
>>> > on doing a clean install. As I proceed through the installation
>>> > process I
>>> > get to the section where I select a hard drive to install Vista too
>>> > from
>>> > the
>>> > list found. However nothing is found. The motherboard is an Iwill
>>> > P4-HT
>>> > that contains onboard Promise Technologies RAID, I dont use the raid
>>> > but
>>> > use
>>> > for the extra IDE ports and the increased ATA 133 speed. I tried
>>> > browsing
>>> > for device drivers which I found on Promise's website but even after
>>> > the
>>> > drivers are installed it still does not find the hard drives sitting
>>> > on
>>> > the
>>> > Promise Raid IDE ports.
>>> >
>>> > What can I do? I was going to try to put the Primary HD on the main
>>> > IDE
>>> > (non -promise IDE port) to see if Vista would recognize it, still
>>> > install
>>> > the
>>> > needed Promise drivers, install vista, and once installation is
>>> > complete
>>> > try
>>> > to put the HD back on the Promise ATA 133 IDE ports in hopes it would
>>> > recognize it. But I wanted to check to see if that is a viable
>>> > solution
>>> > before proceeding.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>
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