SATA Drivers and BIOs Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss SATA Drivers and BIOs in the Windows Vista forums; As most know I wanted to clean install Vista.. which I had been using for over 1 yr. betas to Full upgrade to RETAIL on 2 Feb 2007. When I ...

[Snuffy]

As most know I wanted to clean install Vista.. which I had been using for over 1 yr. betas to Full upgrade to RETAIL on 2 Feb 2007. When I decided to upgrade I went all the way...

1. flash Bios from 1.80 to 2.20
Nothing but problems... Vista will not install... on F6 I used prior made floppys to add drivers for Ultra 100 IDE PCI card and SATA Drivers. Set Bios to PCI-E and and ACHI, all went well except Vista failed to complete installation...

2. Seems that many people all over the net are having the same problems with different machines.

3. I have not tested but after reading the very small print... upgrading bios from 1.80 (XP and Vista compatible) Bios 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 demanded a new set of SATA drivers... the original SATA drivers were (in-fact Beta Drivers). Nice for my Mobo Manufacture to tell me... (had to read the .inf to find that.

4. Found that Promise will not upgrade the Ultra 100 drivers, so found that Maxtor has the same system...only upgraded drivers.

MORAL IS IF YOU HAVE FLASHED YOUR BIOS.. you might need a complete new set of Vista Drivers for your mobo... for RAID or S-ATA drivers.

[felix8406]

In my case, I can't get Win XP to install on the PC I just built. I just installed a 500GB SATA drive. When I try to install Win XP, I manage to install the NVIDIA drivers, but when XP tries to reboot, it just hangs. I went to Western Digital website for help, but could not find anything. I can install Vista without any issues, but not XP. Any suggestions?

[Snuffy]

You have basically the same problems I ran into.
SATA drivers for XP are different than SATA Drivers for Vista.
That is what messed my system.

carefully checking drivers.. for my system
1. Sata drivers XP = v2.5.1540.28
2. Sata drivers for Vista = v2.5.1540.43

I have to use F6 depending on the OS your using. before the install.

[felix8406]

I did use F6 (Win XP) and it goes through the process of installing the drivers; then it tries to restart, but just hangs there. I tried both, chosing the Windows driver and the NVIDIA drivers from the floppy, but it still hangs either way.

[tomherry]

Hi,
If you want to install windows vista u need atleast 128 mb graphics card