Windows Vista dvdrom problem

I downloaded a Vista verson and tried it to install.
When building my pc, my dvdrom wasn't recognised so I bought a promise ide card. Now it works fine.

I boot from that dvdrom and soon Vista appears with a window saying: unrecognised cdrom driver. (it boots from it!!).

I can't find the right driver in my floppy's and there's no possiblility to skip or cancel this procedure.

I have dualcore intel and the pc is Vista ready.

 

When clicking the setup file in Xp, it doesn't work (it doesn't recognize the fileformat ?)

So I must start clean from boot. Logical because it's not an upgrade but standalone setup.


Mayby trying another version to download ?.

 

I downloaded it from the Microsoft site.

 

Yeah ok, but it doesn't give an installerror and it doesn't crasch.

NO, it says: I can't find the right driver. That's the problem!.

 

I removed the card and everything is fine. i installed a new dvdrom that is recognised by the bios.

The only thing I can say about Vista: wow !!!!!!.

 

You need to go to the Promise site and download their driver for your board. As far as Win2k, XP and Vista are concerned, any controller board that contains ROM (such as yours) is a RAID controller. RAID controller drivers are given a chance to be installed during Setup.

My driver name is Ultrastor.sys. Use the XP driver and Vista will be very happy with it. I run three hard drives under RC1 and all previous Beta releases with the driver without issue.

Stick the board in and restart your machine. If the new hardware wizard does not run, use Control Panel and run it manually. Use the "Have disk" option to point to the folder where you unpacked the Promise drivers.

 

These are supposed to work under Vista RC1:

Silicon Image 3x14 XP x86 drivers
http://12.24.47.40/display/2/kb/cat...d=352&L2cid=354&L3cid=364&level=4&r=0.1400916

Silicon Image 3x12 XP x86 drivers
http://12.24.47.40/display/2/kb/cat...d=352&L2cid=354&L3cid=358&level=4&r=0.5540724

Silicon Image 3x32 XP x86 drivers
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/suppor...amp;osid=4&


nForce can work, according to this Guide: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/1-vt66299.html?start=0

Nvidia-nForce4 Vista RC1 Drivers:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

 

Unforunaly, I have other problems:

A bad partition, which did loose me 100gb movies and tutorials and personal documentation.

Much later I found out, that the partition wasn't faulty, but I connected it to the Promise card and it was bigger than the maximum of the card.
Therefore it said: partition-end bigger than real end.

I wrote Promise and they say that the newest driver will cure the 132gb problem. Pitty that I DO have the latest driver!.

Then I thought, I connect my 2 dvdwriters to it. But no, when doing so, the pc will not start through.

I bought a motherboard with 3 ide slots, but it turned out that when using my sata drive, the 2 extra ide slots were NOT useful.
It was OR OR, Not AND AND.

What to do ?. I don't know. The last hope, is to buy a sato2ide connector and so I will have 6 ide connections. Maybe then my problems will be solved.

Oh boy, first the Promise card, then an connector, where will it end ?.

(I now have the new dvdwriter NOT connected and now all works, but that's not wat I want at last. ;-) )

ide-0: harddrive
ide-1: harddrive
sata: harddrive
promise: dvdwriter

Oh, did I mention it's a ultra 100tx 2 card ?.

 

Well, I thought my problems were over, but no, when I click on the cdrom, the pc freezes.

One positive point: I thought: I disconnect the sata drive and try the other writer at the extra ide ports. It turns out, I can AND use the extra ide ports AND my sata drive!!.

So far so good. Now only that ^%&( dvdwriter at the promise controller card and my problems are over. (i hope).

btw: when starten with a live cd, tehre are NO prblems, so I think it's a misuse in the registry. Yeah, but where ?????.