Promise Rade drivers won't install!!!

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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 !!
 
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