Originally Posted by emkaydist
Fabulous I'm on a thread that is two years old with no solutions.
Someone made comment earlier about getting ASUS only..........well on someone else's suggestion to do just that replacing a burnt Soyo Dragon I bought an ASUS that just so happens to have that Promise controller. I swapped out the Soyo and the old chip for the ASUS and a new chip and did a Repair install to avoid a clean install with a bare version of XP no service packs. Yes there were some issues and I knew I was on borrowed time. NYE I'm moving about 5GB from the C drive to the D drive and this reboot and deleting of orphan files had started blanking out 60GB of data. So I research the prob and wind up here with the Promise driver issue I cannot get around.
Recently I grabbed a version of XP with sp2 on the disc and some of the files will not copy as we have heard..........I contacted the vendor and they are resending the disc which I thought was a nic or scratch keeping me from copying the setup files. This does not sound like it will be fixable unless I get rid of the board and get something without the Promise drivers. Tell me I'm nuts.
I am NOT running RAID or using the serial ports. All of my drives are on IDE.
ASUS P4800E
2.6 Prescott
1.75GB Corsair
200GB Seagate Barracuda
250GB Seagate Barracuda
40GB Maxtor as Photoshop scratch disc
NEC DVD-RW 3550A
UltraX 500W PS
ATI Radeon 9550 256mb
