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Having Trouble with Windows 7 Install & ULi 1573 drivers

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gjkozick   08-17-2009 at 03:45:37 PM

I'm trying to install Windows 7, I've run into issues with my hard disk controller drivers. I have an Asus Vintage AH-1 barebones system. It's socket 939 (ATI XPRESS 200 chipset), and includes a ULi 1573 Southbridge. Windows can't seem to automatically detect it, and when I use the driver disk provided by Asus, it says that it doesn't include any signed drivers (the closest match to Windows 7 x64 is Windows XP 64-bit drivers). When I get into startup, it can't detect my drives and doesn't accept any of the drivers that I have.

ULi Electronics was apparently purchased by nVidia. Their driver page include executables, but nothing I can throw up on a floppy for windows install. Has anyone else encountered a problem with this Southbridge? or know of any drivers I can use?


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joeblow_69   10-13-2009 at 08:21:27 PM

I got around it by downloading the ULI drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html. The "Integrated 220" zip file turns into an EXE that is used for installation onto an existing Vista OS. However, if you run the setup.exe, you can get the drivers from your "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp". Before running the setup.exe, deleted the contents of your "C:\Documents and Settings\hemyv\Local Settings\Temp" folder so that you can see what is decompressed. Copy these files to a CD or SD card and use the uncompressed driver from one of the SATA folders (can't remember which one) to install a driver during the Windows 7 install.

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xarrek   10-22-2009 at 06:49:16 PM

joeblow_69 wrote :


[...] decompressed. Copy these files to a CD or SD card and use the uncompressed driver from one of the SATA folders (can't remember which one) to install a driver during the Windows 7 install.



Thanks for the help. One question though: did you install Windows 7 32bit or 64bit?

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swadeg8tor   11-02-2009 at 03:23:05 PM

joeblow_69 wrote :

I got around it by downloading the ULI drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html. The "Integrated 220" zip file turns into an EXE that is used for installation onto an existing Vista OS. However, if you run the setup.exe, you can get the drivers from your "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp". Before running the setup.exe, deleted the contents of your "C:\Documents and Settings\hemyv\Local Settings\Temp" folder so that you can see what is decompressed. Copy these files to a CD or SD card and use the uncompressed driver from one of the SATA folders (can't remember which one) to install a driver during the Windows 7 install.



Thank you, worked like a charm (its one of the AMD64 drivers). I had all the pieces, just couldn't seem to put them together this morning. Nvidia's download link seems to be broken, but anyone looking for the Integrated 220 drivers should be able to find them elsewhere. Thanks again joeblow_69.

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mrubin641   11-04-2009 at 01:29:35 AM

I had the same issue until just an hour ago. I went into my bios to install a spare video card since the onboard one would not go above 1024X resolution. while in the bios I noticed PnP OS was disabled. I enabled it for the heck of it. Rebooted and it picked up everything it would not before. So make sure PnP OS is ENABLED in the BIOS

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phiquantu   11-20-2009 at 04:14:39 AM

Thanks JoeBlow. Your method works like a charm!!! To contribute back, I have uploaded the ULI220 file with the exact SATA folder (where the RAID controller driver is) in the following link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N3LQ69W2

I can get my A8r32-MVP Deluxe to recognize my Raid-0 drive now and able to finish the rest of Windows 7 installation.

When Windows 7 say no drive detected, click on "Load driver" and browse the USB or CD-ROM where you copied the ULI file into. Then point to the following directory to load & install it.
---> G:\ULI_220\SATA\M5289\i386

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