Trying to install Vista.

the SCSI RAID drivers came in a drivers CD along with your laptop. You can also download it on Sagers website. I know with windows XP at the beginning of installation it says to press f6 to install outside SCSI/RAID drivers. Im sure its the same thing with Vista if it gives you that error. You might need to put it on a floppy and use the external floppy drive to install the drivers. thats what i had to do when i installed XP for the first time on my laptop.

u may need to put only the driver data(i installed vista @ an d900t which has an raid ata controler and). I downloaded the drivers from the sager side. there were 2 folders one for win2k ond one for xp i put the data from the xp folder(not the foldern only the data which is in the folder) onto a floppy and then i worked.
u have to include the driver when u are asked on which hdd u would like to install vista on(put in the floppy right @ the booting(before the vista setup boots).

it might help^^

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I have a 5710 and when I tried to install the camera drivers and the Intell Wireless card I got the same message. The next day when I booted I got a message that their was a windows update out there and when i checked what the upgrades were it was the camera driver and the wireless card driver. I do have a problem with it not recognizing my cd/dvd drive. I deleted it using the device manager and rebooted to have Vista say the cd driver is corupt. I have the toshiba (lightscribe) CD/DVD drive that was discontinued by Sager.

Vista will allow you to load the drivers for the Promise controller from a USB floppy in a manner similar to XP (not exactly the same, but you'll figure it out). As another poster alluded to, while XP doesn't care that the drivers aren't in the root directory, Vista expects them to be there, so just copy all of the driver files from that directory to the root directory.

The update advisor probably told you that no action was required to obtain support for your Realtek High Definition Audio device. However, this information is incorrect. In fact, Vista will probably not even recognize that you have an audio device. I don't know of any 98xx owner who has been able to confirm that they got sound working in Vista. If you get it working, I would like to know how you did it.

After you get Vista installed, and you go online, Windows Update will offer you a driver for the SmartLink modem. However, I would recommend that you install all other drivers except that one since it may or may not cause your system to go haywire (like it did mine). Create a restore point if you can, reboot and then install the modem driver.

The TV tuner will most likely not function. I was able to get the software installed, and the device were recognized and I was able to manually install the drivers for the Video devices. However, when the tuner launches, the program reports an error, and when I go into the device driver file list, I can see that the list of files used by Vista is much smaller than that used by XP.

If you want to use the Aero Glass feature of Vista, then you will need to upgrade the Vista drivers for your NVidia card. The MS drivers will work, but they won't give you the Aero Glass option. The best drivers I know of for Aero Glass on Vista can be found at laptopvideo2go.com (the Vista drivers), make sure you download both the drivers and the modded inf file. After extracting the driver file, overwrite the nv_disp.dll file with the modded one you downloaded and then run the diver setup program.

I don't know what SiW and the 1394 net adaptor are, so I can't help you with those.

I've found Vista looks very nice, and though it normally runs fine, there are a large number of problems (mostly minor), so I still prefer to use XP for the moment. Good luck!

My soundcard is working with Vista with no problems on my Sager 9880. I just installed driver from Realtek site.

Do you know if Vista reported the device as unknown in the device list (before you installed the driver)? The reason I ask is because I tried a number of drivers to get mine working, but none worked, I suspect because Vista wouldn't even recognize the device.

XP lists my device driver details for the Realtek High Definition Audio device as:
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0880&SUBSYS_08800000&REV_0905\4&59835F1&0&0001
Note it's Realtek ALC880. Is this the same as yours?

Are you sure you downloaded the right drivers? Go to http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True

And get the Vista Beta drivers. Worked fine for me on a 9860 which uses the ALC880.