lynnm
November 30th, 2000, 09:31 AM
Hello Dere
I realize that I am taking liberties by posting a hardware issue in this forum but I feel that the following may be of help to users who are having fits trying to get their Asus A7V's to make nice with Windows 2000:
I recently built a new toy based around an Asus A7V and an Athlon 800. All was well until I installed Windows 2000.
Suffice it to say I wound up in a digital rodeo of epic proportions. The installation crashed umpteen times and in the end I wound up losing the ability to see either my CD-Rom drive or my CDRW.
Here is What Worked For Me.
1).Formated all partitions and created a FAT 32 partition as my primary active partition.
2).Installed Windows95 on the boot partition.
3).Ran the Asus support cd and installed the bundled drivers for the Promise Controller.
4).After installing the Promise driver I used the BIOS Flash Utility included on the CD to update my system BIOS to the A7V1004d version.
5).So Far Everything now works.
This issue has been driving a lot of users up the wall because they cannot access the drivers on the CD after installing Windows 2000.
I hope this helps some others that have been crawling the net,(and the walls)
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It is meet to recall that the Great Green Heron Rarely flies upside down in the moonlight.- (Foo Ling ca.1707)
I realize that I am taking liberties by posting a hardware issue in this forum but I feel that the following may be of help to users who are having fits trying to get their Asus A7V's to make nice with Windows 2000:
I recently built a new toy based around an Asus A7V and an Athlon 800. All was well until I installed Windows 2000.
Suffice it to say I wound up in a digital rodeo of epic proportions. The installation crashed umpteen times and in the end I wound up losing the ability to see either my CD-Rom drive or my CDRW.
Here is What Worked For Me.
1).Formated all partitions and created a FAT 32 partition as my primary active partition.
2).Installed Windows95 on the boot partition.
3).Ran the Asus support cd and installed the bundled drivers for the Promise Controller.
4).After installing the Promise driver I used the BIOS Flash Utility included on the CD to update my system BIOS to the A7V1004d version.
5).So Far Everything now works.
This issue has been driving a lot of users up the wall because they cannot access the drivers on the CD after installing Windows 2000.
I hope this helps some others that have been crawling the net,(and the walls)
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It is meet to recall that the Great Green Heron Rarely flies upside down in the moonlight.- (Foo Ling ca.1707)