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Vista 5744 and Promise Drivers WARNING

post #1 of 7
10/8/06 at 9:11pm
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This is the short story. Vista 5744 actually has SATA Promise Drivers built-in. The bad news is they suck . I tried to make the setup use the drivers from a USB Floppy like normal but it work take them. So I had to wait through 2.5 hours to install Vista. It is very sluggish once you finally get to do something. As soon as possible manually install the WinXP Promise Drivers. Do this by going into Device Manager and manually update and choose let me select. It will give a not signed warning but ignore and continue. It should ask to reboot and when it reboots you will notice that Vista is fast again.
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post #2 of 7
10/9/06 at 4:33am
Strange that it wouldn't take the drivers. Was it that they loaded, but Windows automatically figured that it would use the built-in drivers instead?

Will have to report it after I try it out myself. Hopefully, the performance issue exists across the board so they'll have it fixed in Vista RTM.

What concerns me is the possibility that the Realtek drivers might make it into Vista RTM. Realtek has been continuously developing their HDA drivers in conjuction with the beta. Since none of the drivers work with the 9860, that might mean no way to boot into Vista without bluescreening. There's another reason it would be nice to have the ability to disable hardware recognition and/or driver installation at install.
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post #3 of 7
10/9/06 at 10:43am
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Originally Posted by Starcub
Strange that it wouldn't take the drivers. Was it that they loaded, but Windows automatically figured that it would use the built-in drivers instead?

Well it would take the drivers during setup but when it did a refresh my internal HDDs would no longer show up. So Vista might not take outside drivers if it has its own and the ones you try to substitute are not not signed. I checked the MD5 hash and restated setup several times to make sure it was not a quirk. Doing an Upgrade from a later version of Vista might work but since this is Beta/RC, I also do a clean install.

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Originally Posted by Starcub
What concerns me is the possibility that the Realtek drivers might make it into Vista RTM. Realtek has been continuously developing their HDA drivers in conjuction with the beta. Since none of the drivers work with the 9860, that might mean no way to boot into Vista without bluescreening. There's another reason it would be nice to have the ability to disable hardware recognition and/or driver installation at install.

Well Vista 5728 and 5744 have not tried to install the Smartlink Modem Drivers or Realtek Drivers. The Vista Smartlink Modem Drivers are the ones that caused BSOD for me. I did install the last known WinXP Smartlink Modem Drivers and the Beta Vista Realtek Drivers but neither work.
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post #4 of 7
10/11/06 at 4:18am
I've got the same problem with promise driver and RC2. I've updated the drivers and it gave me a performance boot (my index score for the HD was 2 and with the driver 4.2 )

But i've got a problem with the RC2. A very very loog boot time (2-3 minutes). No problem with the 5600 and the 5728,as fast as XP.

During the boot, i've got a black screen with no HD activity and no fan ! It's like the CPU does nothing, because fan start when the desktop start to display.

I've updated the nvidia driver which on on the nvidia site (96.33) but no difference. Vista ask mo to update the driver with a WDM version and i did it but no change ...

Any idea ?
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post #5 of 7
10/11/06 at 9:27am
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Originally Posted by deuch
I've got the same problem with promise driver and RC2. I've updated the drivers and it gave me a performance boot (my index score for the HD was 2 and with the driver 4.2 )

But i've got a problem with the RC2. A very very loog boot time (2-3 minutes). No problem with the 5600 and the 5728,as fast as XP.

During the boot, i've got a black screen with no HD activity and no fan ! It's like the CPU does nothing, because fan start when the desktop start to display.

I've updated the nvidia driver which on on the nvidia site (96.33) but no difference. Vista ask mo to update the driver with a WDM version and i did it but no change ...

Any idea ?

Same problem with the 2-3 min boot but much faster then using the Vista Promise Drivers. As for the Nvidia Drivers, it should have installed the 96.77 because it is built into the Vista DVD. Try installing these.
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=11329
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post #6 of 7
10/11/06 at 9:41pm
I had the same problem when installing RC2, it immediately BSOD on reboot. However, I didn't have any problems installing the drivers from the floppy.
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post #7 of 7
10/28/06 at 6:02pm
One thing I've found recently: after installing the XP Promise drivers over RC2's included driver, even though disk performance is increased to normal, transferring files between partitions now takes forever.
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