Re: P4PE - not seeing SATA drives or network card.
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:54:45 -0500
GS wrote:
DaveW wrote:The P4PE, which I used to own, is an older motherboard whose BIOS can only recognize up to 137 GB harddrives. Secondly you have to install the motherboard's SATA controller drivers from the motherboard's installation CD before the board will see SATA harddrives.
Is there any way I can find out the exact model of the MB and download the iso or needed programs so that I can enable the SATA? I have no cd with this PC.
p4pe
P4pe2-x
p4pe-bp
p4pe-x
p4pe-x/se
p4pe-x/te
Two different LAN chips were used. One option was
gigabit lan BCM5702. Another was 10/100BT lan BCM4401.
You can look at the board and see which one you got.
Check the white lettering on the motherboard for a
motherboard name. You can also use a utility to try to ID the
board. This is the download page, and you'd type the name in
there, to get to the driver files.
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
CPUZ is a pretty small program, and will display a name for the motherboard.
There are other utilities as well, but some install more unnecessary
software than others. This program is pretty lightweight.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
In terms of getting a SATA driver to install, most of this
fine tuning of motherboard name is not necessary. The download
is eventually going to lead to this directory.
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20376/
The small files are three different versions of INF based
driver files. pdc20376_15.zip is 349KB. You would copy the
contents of the "Promise" folder (but not the Promise folder
itself), to a floppy, such that txtsetup.oem was at the top
level of the floppy. That makes the floppy suitable for
pressing F6 during a Windows install, so that you have an
opportunity to install a RAID driver and install the OS on
the SATA disk(s) in a RAID mode.
If you go to Device Manager, you could also use the contents
of that ZIP, to satisfy a driver update operation for the
PDC20376. That would prepare the PDC20376 for the connection
of a data disk (using Lars's recommended fake RAID setup, of
using a single drive and declaring it as some kind of RAID).
You'd shut down, connect the disk, enter the BIOS and press
control-F to enter the Fasttrak BIOS screen, set up the single
disk RAID, save and exit, then boot into Windows and use
Disk Management (in one of the Control Panels) to finish
preparing the disk for data storage.
The other thing in that FTP directory, is the PAM file. It
is larger than the driver files. PAM stands for Promise
Array Management, and is a program that runs in Windows.
You use it for monitoring the status of RAID arrays. For
the operation of a single disk RAID, it would be a pretty
useless program, but you can download it and play with it
anyway.
HTH,
Paul
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