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Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it won’t see my SATA Hard drives – as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn’t even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: “The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media.”
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers – same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb

"Reb" wrote:

Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it won’t see my SATA Hard drives – as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn’t even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: “The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media.”
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers – same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb

Try burning the drivers to the ROOT DIRECTORY of a CD or a floppy and Install Vista via boot-up, not upgrade. WHen it asks for the drivers put in your CD / USB key / Floppy and then select the appropriate driver. Get the drivers from www.promise.com
Download the ones for FastTrak and then burn the contents of the WinXP folder onto a CD. This has worked for people I have heard but I am still hvaing trouble installing Vista 32-bit with my Ultra 100 TX2 controller (another driver from Promise) "Reb" wrote:

Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it won’t see my SATA Hard drives – as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn’t even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: “The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media.”
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers – same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb