Windows Vista Set-Up Won't Recognize Promise Driver - **UPDATE April 15**

In my ongoing efforts to format and set-up a Maxtor 15K Atlas II as a boot drive,
I am still unsuccessful. The latest roadblock is that in attempting to install Vista
Business 64-Bit, Windows Set-up does not recognize any of the Promise drivers
as compatible with my hardware.
MSI K9A2 Platinum - version 1 (currently using v1.4 BIOS)
AMD 5000+ Black Edition CPU
MSI Radeon 3870 GPU
WD6400AAKS (Boot Drive)
G.Skill DDR2 800 (1GB stick)
Corsair VX550W PSU
Logitech cordless Keyboard & Mouse
22" Viewsonic Monitor
Windows Vista Business 64-Bit
Any suggestions?
Tia.
JB

Quote from: richunix on 14-April-08, 20:56:43
Make sure you are BIOS version 1.3.  BIOS version 1.4 will not support the Promise RAID.   You would believe how many days I went through  :wall:until I contacted MSI only to be told you have remove BIOS version 1.4 and re-flash to version 1.3.   Sometime I hate tech supoort .
Richard
Yep, went through the same thing here, and re-flashed back to 1.3 a couple weeks ago.
Got my Maxtor 15K Atlas II SAS drive back from Seagate, and the drive they sent me
seems to be healthy -- at least now it can be SEEN in the Promise FastBuild Utility.
Problem now i, Windows Set-up still refuses to SEE the drive, even after installing
the correct Promise drivers -- which means STILL no way to get this drive
working with this board.
I even tried booting off a SATA drive and seeing if Windows could format it that way,
but it still doesn't see the drive in the Drive Management control panel.
My drive is good. My SAS cable is good. I just can't get this SAS drive formatted.
This is going beyond suckish. 
discouraged.
JB

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