promise technology compatibility issue

Troncoso

Troncoso

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I have an ultra100 ide expansion pci card. it worked in the same motherboard i'm trying it in now. the only difference is that was xp and now i'm trying to use it with windows 7. that would be anyone's first guess as to why it won't work. But, i've read a couple things of people having it work on their systems. the only difference is, they already had the os installed on theirs. I need the card cause my 2 hdd's are pata and so are my disk drives and i only have one ide bus. so how can i get my expansion card to work, or get by without using it?
 
hi. questions.

does your pci expansion card require drivers to work properly? did you install them? do you have 7 professional or ultimate, in case you need to install drivers in compatibility mode for xp?

when i installed a sata pci card in an old machine, I had to put the card in. boot up, wait for drivers to load, then shutdown, attach said hard drives and then start up again.

also, have your hard drive with your OS on the primary ide (ie the one on the mainboard) with a cd drive slaved and then once that is working try with the card and other drive(s). Good luck.

mickey
 
okay, the card is detected, when i had xp. i did have to do a bios update so it could properly detect hard drives of more than 137g. besides that it worked fine. this time around, i have my harddrives connected to the expansion. when i install 7, i get to a screen that says i need required drivers to continue, so i try to install them off a flash drive, but the only real driver was that bios update and that didnt work.

i tried the harddrive with the slave dvd drive deal and it stills ends up asking for a driver? what do i do about that?
 
hmmmm.. what driver is it specifically asking for? Is it perhaps for your optical drive? that would stop you...

try this. take out the card. only connect the hard drive you want 7 on and the optical drive. HDD master OPT slave. see if windows will install. then once you are in windows environment, shutdown, install card. boot up. it should install card drivers. or you will have to. shutdown again. connect other HDD to card. start up again.

we try not to confuse the poor little windows discs with too much info all at once.

PS: if the 7 disc is a burned copy, try burning it again as slow as possible (1X) to avois errors.
 
Troncoso said:
when i install 7, i get to a screen that says i need required drivers to continue, so i try to install them off a flash drive, but the only real driver was that bios update and that didnt work.

i tried the harddrive with the slave dvd drive deal and it stills ends up asking for a driver? what do i do about that?
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You need to install the driver for the expansion card, not a bios file. Look the card up and see if there is a 7 driver.
 
I don't remember exactly what it asks for but its like a standard error message that says I need required drivers to install 7. Now that's the message I got when I tried the hdd and dvd drive on slave I may have to re burn as that disk. Gives me a lot of problems
 
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