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More info?)
Well, then download the drivers from ASUS's website. AFAICT, whatever
is on the ASUS CD can be found on their website... latest versions, too!
"DaveJr" <davesbrain@qwest.net> writes:
> This is an A7V rev.1.02 board. And I have no mobo driver cd. I bought it
> from a friend with an Athlon 950 and 512ram for a whopping $20.
>
>> Speaking from memory of my experience with the P4T533:
>>
>> * Copy the Promise MBFastTrack Lite 133 drivers from the ASUS CD to a
>> floppy disk.
>>
>> * Connect up a pair of drives to the onboard raid connectors and set
>> the onboard jumper for raid.
>>
>> * Boot the system and hit <ctrl-F> to enter the FastTrack RAID
>> configuration utility and configure either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
>>
>> * I had a pair of Maxtor ULTRA ATA 133 drives, so I booted into the
>> MaxBlast CD and partitioned and formatted the drive for NTFS.
>>
>> * I then re-booted into the WinXP setup disk with the drivers disk I
>> made above in the floppy drive.
>>
>> * Hit F6 to tell WinXP to load the additional drivers from the floppy.
>>
>> * Hit S to select exactly which adapter driver to load.
>>
>> * Finished the install and set the BIOS to boot from the "SCSI/ATA"
>> adapter.
>>
>> I can't imagine that it's too much different for other onboard Promise
>> RAID controllers.
>>
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