Promise IDE Ultra100 OnBoard Driver ?

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Hello,

I have an ASUS A7V266-E motherboard with a Promise IDE Ultra100 Controller
on board. Two harddisks are connected to this controller.
I run the Vista Upgrade Advisor Tool and it told me that there would be no
problem installing Vista Ultimate ... so I bought the software !

During installation (32-bit version) the Setup displays that it would need a
driver for this controller. However, neither at ASUS nor at PROMISE a Vista
driver is available.
Setup does not continue and I am not able to install and use Vista ... :o( !!!

Does anyone know where to download a working driver or does anyone know a
workaround for this issue ?

Thanx

alextp
 
I have the latest 'stable' version i.e. 1011.
However, a beta-version A7V266-E Beta BIOS 1015.002 (dated 2003/08/14) is
available !
Do you think this might help ?!
 
I flashed the beta BIOS, but the problem is still the same ... !
Meanwhile I contacted the ASUS as well as the PROMISE support.
PROMISE has not answered til now, but ASUS has:
They say that the chipset manufacturer has to provde drivers as they do not
provide and program drivers for second party products themselves. At the
moment they cannot guarantee that there will be new drivers ...

Great ... :o( ... I am already thinking about buying a new motherboard !

Regards,

alextp
 
Promise is the BIOS manufacturer are they also the chipset manufacturer?
According to the Manual for my A7A266 MOBO ALI is the manufacturer of my
chipset?
 
Come now. This board is 5-6 years old now. It was archived by Asus three
years ago.

I have one I put in my sons computer so he could use it with Windows XP.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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