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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of
Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
"broccolibeef" wrote in message ... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! I don't know why you're surprised. We're all waiting on manufacturers to write drivers for Vista. At best, most are still beta. Why anyone would purchase Vista now for an XP machine is beyond me. It's stupid. -Pete |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
"Pete" wrote, among other things:
It's stupid. -Pete Maybe! But to be fair, I am not the only one! You could take a look at the number of people asking questions about Vista here! Get hold of yourself and have a nice day! |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
I've got the full version, aka final build, of Vista Ultimate (OEM), and I
ran into the same thing. Creative Labs does have a beta driver for the Audigy 2 Value card on their site. I've got it loaded, and it seems to work well enough. Unfortunately, you're hosed with NVidia for the moment. I ran into same thing with my printer, my fax modem, my SCSI card, and my webcam. They don't call it the bleeding edge for nothing. I'm hopeful the drivers will come soon. Buck up, camper! "broccolibeef" wrote in message ... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
In article ,
=?Utf-8?B?YnJvY2NvbGliZWVm?= says... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! My Vista build is on another board but I do have the A8N-E with MCE 2005 and my Sata is listed in DM as a PCI Controller drive. From what I understand this is not unusual at all, especially if you do not load the SATA driver or the bios. I never did but I boot from this drive and everything runs fine. How does the drive show in the bios? Mine shows in the bios. As long as it is fine there, I wouldn't sweat it. Ed_ |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
Thanks to everyone who has replied! Everything is working FINE, except that
they are not perfect! For instance, I would like my HD to be recognized as an SATA drive, because it is one in actuality and correctly recognized under XP! Under Vista, at this moment, it is only recognized as an ATA drive! With regard to Creative's sound cards, they are so prevalent on the market--so many people have their products. I am just quite surprised that Vista does not come with any native driver included for, at least, some of Creative's sound cards! Everything is working fine on my machine with Vista Ultimate (32 bit, Build 5840), but not perfect. I am a big fan of cutting edge of technologies, especially in the PC area! Thanks again for the reply! "Ed_" wrote: In article , =?Utf-8?B?YnJvY2NvbGliZWVm?= says... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! My Vista build is on another board but I do have the A8N-E with MCE 2005 and my Sata is listed in DM as a PCI Controller drive. From what I understand this is not unusual at all, especially if you do not load the SATA driver or the bios. I never did but I boot from this drive and everything runs fine. How does the drive show in the bios? Mine shows in the bios. As long as it is fine there, I wouldn't sweat it. Ed_ |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
SATA drives are designated under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers" or under the "SCSI and RAID controllers" depending on both the system BIOS and the driver for the controller. If the system BIOS has options for both SATA & RAID and the option is set to SATA they will be listed under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and usually do not need an additional driver. When listed this way you will usually see double entires for "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel" in the Device Manager. If the option is set to RAID they will be listed under the "SCSI and RAID controllers" and usually require an additional RAID driver. Either way is absolutely correct and does not affect your system performance when using SATA drives in a non-RAID configuration. When you have a RAID configuration they will always be listed under "SCSI and RAID controllers" and you will need an additional SATA RAID driver if it is not included in the Windows base. broccolibeef wrote: This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
From a VISTA OS point of view the same software controller driver interface
is used for Serial ATA(SATA) as is used for Parellel ATA(PATA/IDE) since the controller is what handles the actual physical interface and drive characteristics. "broccolibeef" wrote in message news Thanks to everyone who has replied! Everything is working FINE, except that they are not perfect! For instance, I would like my HD to be recognized as an SATA drive, because it is one in actuality and correctly recognized under XP! Under Vista, at this moment, it is only recognized as an ATA drive! With regard to Creative's sound cards, they are so prevalent on the market--so many people have their products. I am just quite surprised that Vista does not come with any native driver included for, at least, some of Creative's sound cards! Everything is working fine on my machine with Vista Ultimate (32 bit, Build 5840), but not perfect. I am a big fan of cutting edge of technologies, especially in the PC area! Thanks again for the reply! "Ed_" wrote: In article , =?Utf-8?B?YnJvY2NvbGliZWVm?= says... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! My Vista build is on another board but I do have the A8N-E with MCE 2005 and my Sata is listed in DM as a PCI Controller drive. From what I understand this is not unusual at all, especially if you do not load the SATA driver or the bios. I never did but I boot from this drive and everything runs fine. How does the drive show in the bios? Mine shows in the bios. As long as it is fine there, I wouldn't sweat it. Ed_ |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
SATA drives are designated under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers" or under the "SCSI and RAID controllers" depending on both the system BIOS and the driver for the controller. If the system BIOS has options for both SATA & RAID and the option is set to SATA they will be listed under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and usually do not need an additional driver. When listed this way you will usually see double entires for "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel" in the Device Manager. If the option is set to RAID they will be listed under the "SCSI and RAID controllers" and usually require an additional RAID driver. Either way is absolutely correct and does not affect your system performance when using SATA drives in a non-RAID configuration. When you have a RAID configuration they will always be listed under "SCSI and RAID controllers" and you will need an additional SATA RAID driver if it is not included in the Windows base. JW wrote: From a VISTA OS point of view the same software controller driver interface is used for Serial ATA(SATA) as is used for Parellel ATA(PATA/IDE) since the controller is what handles the actual physical interface and drive characteristics. "broccolibeef" wrote in message news Thanks to everyone who has replied! Everything is working FINE, except that they are not perfect! For instance, I would like my HD to be recognized as an SATA drive, because it is one in actuality and correctly recognized under XP! Under Vista, at this moment, it is only recognized as an ATA drive! With regard to Creative's sound cards, they are so prevalent on the market--so many people have their products. I am just quite surprised that Vista does not come with any native driver included for, at least, some of Creative's sound cards! Everything is working fine on my machine with Vista Ultimate (32 bit, Build 5840), but not perfect. I am a big fan of cutting edge of technologies, especially in the PC area! Thanks again for the reply! "Ed_" wrote: In article , =?Utf-8?B?YnJvY2NvbGliZWVm?= says... This is part of my first impressions of Vista--I have an evaluation copy of Vista Ultimate(32 bit, Build 5840) obtained from an MS launch event in Los Angeles. First, I have an Asus A8N-E mobo, supporting AMD 939 socket CPUS, and with BIOS 1080. But under Vista, my SATA HD--Western Digital WD1600JS--is not recoginized as an SATA device but an ATA device. In fact, NO SATA channels are installed or recognized in "Device Manager" at all! Anyone else has this experience? Second, Vista Build 5840 does not contain any driver for my sound card--Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value! When I went to Windows Update, there is no driver there either for the soundcard. I found a beta driver for the sound card at Creative's website! Is this normal, considering that Build 5840 is almost the final build? Final build of Vista is 6000. For those who have had Build 6000--the RTM Build, does that build have the driver for the aforementioned sound card as well as the sata driver for Nforce 4 motherboard? Thanks in advance for any info! My Vista build is on another board but I do have the A8N-E with MCE 2005 and my Sata is listed in DM as a PCI Controller drive. From what I understand this is not unusual at all, especially if you do not load the SATA driver or the bios. I never did but I boot from this drive and everything runs fine. How does the drive show in the bios? Mine shows in the bios. As long as it is fine there, I wouldn't sweat it. Ed_ |
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No sata driver for Nforce 4 mobo, no driver for Audigy 2 value
"broccolibeef" wrote in message ... "Pete" wrote, among other things: It's stupid. -Pete Maybe! But to be fair, I am not the only one! You could take a look at the number of people asking questions about Vista here! Get hold of yourself and have a nice day! OK. :-) |