"jime" said:
I am building a system with the above mobo. I want to put a 200gb drive on
the Pri RAID controller. The Promise bios recognizes the drive but windows
does not.
Also in device manager I have yellow ? marks on.
Other Devices:
Ethernet controller
Multimedia ctlr
RAID ctlr
sm bus ctlr
video ctlr
video vga ctlr.
Probably the RAID one is the problem with the 200gb drive not seen by
windows xp.
Am I missing a set of drivers?
Thanks,
Jim
1) Install Windows
2) Install INF (chipset drivers). Gives AGP driver amongst others.
Should allow proper enumeration of the hardware in Windows.
3) Install video card driver
4) Install Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
5) Install Intel Ethernet driver
6) Install Promise driver. Use "ATA" driver if you want separate drives.
Use "RAID" driver if using an array. Check the Asus download page
if you cannot find both of these on the motherboard CD. Set BIOS as
appropriate. If the Promise controller holds the Windows boot drive,
install the driver via "F6" during step 1. Asus is not always good
about including "makedisk", so this might require some work.
7) Install AIBooster driver, to make "ATK0110" item in Device
Manager go away. ATK0110 is a pseudo-device created for the
purpose of allowing AIBooster access to the hardware.
8) Install Soundmax driver, to get AC'97 sound from the AD1985.
The best driver I've tried so far, can be obtained by visiting
the download page for the P5P800 motherboard, and download the
5150 driver. The reason for using that driver, is when you set
Soundmax with the (echo/reverb) effects disabled, it actually
disables them. Earlier drivers sound "muddy", due to artificial
reverb being added to the signal. The 5150 driver is still not
artifact free, but it is better than before. There are even later
drivers than that one, downloadable from Dell, but they include
crap I'm not interested in.
That should get rid of most of the yellow ? marks.
HTH,
Paul
