New drivers for Promise 20376 SATA/RAID controller on A7V8..

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Hi Mark,

I have no idea about the error you are having, but I do have the .37 drivers
installed yesterday on a brand new system. Not in raid mode, just one single
s-ata drive. I haven't had much time to field-test it properly but
everything seems to work allright.

One question, did you *need* to install the promise drivers at the beginning
of your OS install?
I had a epox board with a normal s-ata controller and that one was properly
detected when I tried to install xp.
But with the asus board, the xp installation reported that there wasn't any
fixed drive available for installation, even if I changed the s-ata
controller settings to win9x/me/nt compatible mode.

regards,
Marcel


"Mark" <markscol@msn.com> schreef in bericht
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> This is a three-part question.
> 1) Can the FASTTX2K.SYS driver for the on-board Promise 20376
> SATA/RAID controller be updated (from 1.00.0.8 to 1.00.1.37). The
> newer driver, which is WHQL-certified, is listed on ASUS's download
> site for other AMD/Via boards that use the same Promise controller. I
> ask because ever since I went to a single SATA drive on my system,
> Windows XP's Hibernate function causes an instant BSOD referencing the
> driver and some kind of IRQL stop error. Standby works OK, by the
> way.
>
> 2) If the answer to the first question is Yes, can the update be done
> simply by "installing" the .INF file without messing up an otherwise
> working system. In other words, can I do it without reinstalling XP?
>
> 3) Are there other possible causes for the Hibernate BSOD? My system
> is A7V8X with AMP XP1700+, 512MB PC2700 RAM, XP Home w/ SP1, Maxtor
> 80GB SATA, no IDE hard drives, two opticals on IDE primary, and the
> usual other stuff. I'm guessing that SP2 won't have any positive
> effect on this problem.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for the long post.
>
> Mark

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"Marcel Overweel" <moverweel@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<41946f8f$0$48933$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> Hi Mark,
>
> I have no idea about the error you are having, but I do have the .37 drivers
> installed yesterday on a brand new system. Not in raid mode, just one single
> s-ata drive. I haven't had much time to field-test it properly but
> everything seems to work allright.
>
> One question, did you *need* to install the promise drivers at the beginning
> of your OS install?

I switched from an IDE drive to an SATA drive (after mirroring the
contents) without re-installing the OS. I did have to interrupt the
boot process to install the SATA/RAID drivers from the ASUS CD that
came with the MBboard. I'm not using RAID either, but the Promise
20376 controller handles both SATA and RAID. Once I adjusted the
necessary BIOS settings, XP saw the new drive and I was able to remove
the IDE drive. Now I'm wondering if I can update the Promise drivers
using either F6 during boot or by installing them from the .INF file
that is part of the driver set.

> I had a epox board with a normal s-ata controller and that one was properly
> detected when I tried to install xp.
> But with the asus board, the xp installation reported that there wasn't any
> fixed drive available for installation, even if I changed the s-ata
> controller settings to win9x/me/nt compatible mode.
>
> regards,
> Marcel

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"Mark" <markscol@msn.com> wrote in message
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> This is a three-part question.
>
> 3) Are there other possible causes for the Hibernate BSOD? My system
> is A7V8X with AMP XP1700+, 512MB PC2700 RAM, XP Home w/ SP1, Maxtor
> 80GB SATA, no IDE hard drives, two opticals on IDE primary, and the
> usual other stuff. I'm guessing that SP2 won't have any positive
> effect on this problem.

I have the same Hibernate BSOD problem. What is your Stop Error Code? I am
getting 0x8E (KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) with the 0xC0000005
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION code. The system is however quite different. The
only common thing is that it boots from a SATA drive. Otherwise I have K8V
SE Deluxe with Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB PC3200 RAM, XP Pro w/ SP2, Maxtor
160GB SATA, another 30GB Maxtor on IDE1, DVD RW on IDE2, GeForce 4 video
card. I also have a UPS, which I connected to the machine with a serial
cable. I configured it to send a message through native windows messenger
service on power failure and on restoring power. When it comes out of
hibernate state successfully I am getting one of these messages. So, I've
been thinking this had something to do with the error... It needs networking
to send this message, so I thought if networking is late to come up it might
cause a problem... Do you have a similar setup by any chance?


/MM