P4CEdeluxe - extra ide header

Gavin

Gavin

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how do i get the extra ide header to work. The driver wont start from with in windows. Should i of installed during windows installation?

Cheers

PS i know its a oldie
 
the blue connector ? thats the promise controler
Ide Driver For Single Mode
Raid Driver if using Raid
both drivers on asus cd under promise
same driver for sata and pata
 
Its the blue promise one and as i said the driver wont start from with in windows. Do i need to install it during the install of windows?

i just want to have 6 x ide devices none in raid
 
The promise IDE connector can only be used for the HD and nothing else eg cd / dvd drives etc...

It's to be used with the promise sata ports to provide multi-raid so you can have a total of 6 HD's on the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
 
Yeah ive tryed all that, its enabled in bios and windows dectects it, it just wont install the drivers...??

Any more ideas guys?
 
you got to make floppy with driver on it
or force it to use the driver by picking the driver from cd using advanced install
of driver, should come up with unsigned driver ignore, then choose correct driver
for the operating system.

ive installed operating system onto ide but had to use floppy only as win xp wont see your drives without it, this is only needed if your installing operating
sytem on HD

you could also have a bad cable

scsi device should displayed under system properties
 
its not a cable but i will try what u said but i dont think i have a floppy drive, althought it shouldnt make any difference whether the file is on a floppy or the desktop.

I have tryed forcing it as well to no avail but ill have another go....cheers guys
 
Gavin:

I have the same Promise controller, mine is on an Asus P4P800 E deluxe, I have used it in BOTH RAID & ATA modes. Whichever you use, you install the drivers from within Windows, through Device manager, in the zipped file you downloaded from Asus, there is a text doc with instructions on how to do it, here are the instructions from text doc:

1. Please check BIOS setting was RAID mode or IDE mode (default was RAID mode).

2. Right click "My Computer" icon on the desktop. Select "Properties" when the menu
appears.

Or you can

Press "Start" button. Move highlight bar to "Settings" and select
"Control Panel". Double click on "System" icon.

3. Select "Hardware" page and then click [Device Manager] button.

4. View devices by type and find "RAID controllers" node.

5. Right Click the "RAID Controller" node.

6. When the menu appears, click the "Properties" item.

7. Please select [Driver] page to update driver.

8. Select "Install from a list or specific location[Advanced]" and then press next.

9. Choose "Don't search.I will choose the driver to install." and then press next.

10. Select "Have Disk". Browse the RAID mode path {CD-ROM Drive}:\Drivers\Promise
\378RAID\WinXP or IDE mode path {CD-ROM Drive}:\Drivers\Promise\378ATA\WinXP to
the driver and click OK.

11. Press Next.

12. Press "Continue Anyway".

13. Finally, press Finish to complete the installation.

14. Please restart you computer for these changes to take effect.

Hope that helps you.
 
Right i dunno if anyone can help me now but i cant get to stage 9 but when i choose "dont search" i dont have the "have disk option" as all it does it goes to the standard windows page with all devices listed.

Very odd as i got it working once before

Ive tried it everyway i can think possible, and this is a clean install of win xp sp 2 with all service packs.
 
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