beta 2 not detecting harddisk

Hi
I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available. Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk on the ATA100 Primary.
On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box saying none could be found.
Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to get it working if at all possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
kaitain

How did you launch setup, boot from the DVD or launched setup from within an existing version of Windows? If you booted off the DVD I would try launching setup from within XP or existing version of Windows if you have that if its installed on your computer, choose Custom to and select the parition dedicated to Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"kaitain" wrote in message

Hi
I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available. Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk on the ATA100 Primary.
On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box saying none could be found.
Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to get it working if at all possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
kaitain

Hi Andre,
I installed from the DVD. Also I'd read that Vista needed at least 15GB free space and the drive was only 20GB, so I wiped it clean. I could reinstall a copy of XP and try it from there, or I could move the harddisk to the standard IDE primary connector and try using the DVD again. I'll keep everyone posted.
ps. Ignore the additional post as the posting window threw an error yesterday and I assumed that this post had been lost.
Regards
Kaitain
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

How did you launch setup, boot from the DVD or launched setup from within an existing version of Windows? If you booted off the DVD I would try launching setup from within XP or existing version of Windows if you have that if its installed on your computer, choose Custom to and select the parition dedicated to Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"kaitain" wrote in message Hi
I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available. Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk on the ATA100 Primary.
On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box saying none could be found.
Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to get it working if at all possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
kaitain

You probably need to load a Vista-compatible driver for the Promise ATA100 interface.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:28:02 -0700, kaitain wrote:

Hi
I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available. Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk on the ATA100 Primary.
On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box saying none could be found.
Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to get it working if at all possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
kaitain

Hi,
Well I got Vista installed by moving the disk to the standard IDE connector, and everything seems fine. Currently the device manager is showing a missing mass storage controller (probably the promise chipset) and a missing "PCI input device".
Also the machine used to crash on a regular basis which I took to be bad capacitors on the motherboard, as everything else worked fine. Now having the disk on the IDE connector and no hangups, bsod or random freezes. So maybe its the promise chipset that's got a problem.
At least this is my test machine now and not my main gaming system.
Thanks for everyone's help.
"andy" wrote:

You probably need to load a Vista-compatible driver for the Promise ATA100 interface.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:28:02 -0700, kaitain kaitain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi
I tried to install Vista Beta 2 on my old dual CPU box at the weekend, but found that it couldn't detect the spare 20GB IBM drive I had available. Motherboard is an MSI 694d Pro v1 (1GB SDRam, 2*733Mhz P3s) with Promise ATA100 Controller chip (PDC20265), as well as standard IDE. I've got a DVD/RW and 120MB Floppy unit on the standard IDE Primary, and the Hard disk on the ATA100 Primary.
On the partition screen I was presented with an empty table and trying refresh didn't do anything. When I tried load driver it popped up a box saying none could be found.
Can Vista cope with this motherboard, or is it to old to be used for testing. It should be noted that Fedora Core 5 installed quite happily using the above configuration after I gave up playing with Vista, but I'm keen to get it working if at all possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
kaitain