Install Windows 7 on Asus KV8 SE Deluxe Motherboard with Promise 378
To start this seems to work on other motherboards that use the Promise 378 chipset, so give this a shot and let me know how it works. When I did my comparison of Windows 7 to Windows XP (which you can read here) I needed an XP machine to install 7 on. I chose my Dads it is an Asus KV8 SE Deluxe motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ running at 2.2GHz, 2 Gb of ram and an ATI X800 All-in-Wonder. I partitioned the hard drive and booted up the Windows 7 disk. Now this motherboard has the Promise 378 Sata chipset and if any of you are familiar with the Promise 378 chipset for sata you know how much of a pain it is. It’s hard enough to get Windows XP installed. Well I tried to install Windows 7 and things went fine until I got to the point in the installation to select the hard drive where Windows is to be installed. There were no hard drives listed!!! I was confused. I did some searching and found that there were no Promise 378 drivers made for Windows Vista let alone 7. So I got to thinking and working.
I knew I was running the Promise 378 in ATA mode so I could connect only one hard drive. So I thought of loading an older driver and looked at Asus website for one. But before I did that I thought for a moment, an XP driver might not work. Windows 7′s code is based on of Vista’s. Vista’s code is based on Server 2003. And that was the ticket. I went here http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
1. Under General Download the first Select Product select Motherboard.
2. the second one is Select Series select Socket 754
3. the third one is Select Models select KV8 SE Deluxe
Then hit search then when it asked which operating system you are using select Win 2003. (if you are installing the 64-bit version of 7 or Vista try downloading the Windows 2003 64-bit driver instead)
Now it will say XX Files Found and under there click on IDE
Then down load the second driver (pictured below), Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode)
The Second Driver is the ATA Mode Driver
Expand the zip file to a folder and burn that folder to a disc.
Then restart your installation and when you get to the point that no hard drives show up take out your Windows 7 install disc and put in the one with the drivers, or if you have a second optical drive insert the burned disc into that. And then in setup hit load drivers and select the 2003 driver, it should find it automatically. It did for me and after a while of searching the drive shows up. Continue the setup as you normally would. That is all you have to do. This should work for Windows Vista or Windows 7. Here is the end results.
Device Manager Showing The Win2003 SATA Driver Installed
It took some doing but here is the proof, a screen shot of the Computer Properties.
Asus KV8 SE Deluxe running Windows 7
It does not do too bad performance wise although I get weird graphic glitches, AMD is not going to release a Windows 7 driver for the X800 graphic card in this machine, but the card could be going bad as well. Below is the Windows Experience Index.
Windows Experience Index
Well I think I would leave 7 on here if I could get the graphic glitches fixed, but this computer is old and is slated to be rebuilt. It does not handle Microsoft Flight Simulator X very well. I hope this helps people figure out how to get Vista and 7 installed on their Promise 378 hardware.
You are the sh*t. This worked perfectly even though I did not have the motherboard you mentioned, the driver worked exactomundo with an A8V Deluxe and W7 64. You rock.
BillaBong
October 10, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I’m glad this helped, it took me some time to figure this one out but I got it working. Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you keep reading.
usefulwindows
October 13, 2009 at 2:16 AM
If it worked for you then you must have installed W7 32bit, NOT 64, because the post was for “32-bit Operating System” See screen shot. I have same K8V SE Delux mobo. The 2003_64bit driver does not show up on ASUS web site under IDE. Only 64 bit VIA RAID appears. There is a 2003_64 for Promise 378 RAID on ASUS, A8V mobo. This might work if BIOS is set to RAID, not IDE. With one drive set to IDE, teh 64 bit driver loads and appears OK in Device Mngr, but SATA drive still does not show. Screen shot with driver is not proof because system can be running off other HD on PATA IDE port for VIA southbridge, not Promise 378. If someone really has W7-64 running with 1 SATA drive on Promise 378 SATA drive, that will be the sh*t!
rlounsbu
December 24, 2009 at 7:07 AM
I saw the selection for X64 2003 and assumed there would be a driver there. Also there is only the Sata drive in this machine no IDE hard drive. The method above works for 32bit Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Also this computer it in the process of being replaced so I will check, test it, and post the results, Thank you for letting me know.
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October 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM
This is about what I had done, except you cannot install Win 7 64-bit on this motherboard since Asus has no driver for Win 2003 64-bit and the driver from Promise is a beta and crashes Win 7 64-bit. I tried over and over and over again to get this running and it just refused to accept the driver. It pisses me off that I have a perfect 64-bit motherboard that I cannot use all the features. The 32-bit version works great and scored high. I just want my IDE port back and my computer set up again for RAID 1.
Andrew
October 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I’m not totally sure what you are trying to do, there are two sets of Sata ports on here one is Via and the other is Promise. The Via ones are for raid so try thoes, This post is to get one of the Promise Sata ports working in the IDE Mode so Windows can be installed on one hard drive conected to the Promise Sata port, this is not for the IDE port. If you want contact me on the Contact page and I will try my best to help you out.
Thanks
usefulwindows
October 30, 2009 at 6:39 AM
Worked perfectly on a Asus A8V Deluxe with Windows 7 32bits!!
Did exactly as stated and did not have to trash my old PC.
Well done! Thank you very much!
Felipec
November 2, 2009 at 7:28 PM
That is great to hear, thank you for your comment.
usefulwindows
November 3, 2009 at 5:54 AM
Hi,
Thank you for the detailed instructions. For some reason I am still unable to see my drives in the installation process.
I have my drives connected through SATA and they are visible in the Promise FastTrack utility. I am also able to boot in XP with the current drive setup. However, Win 7 32-bit or 64-bit cannot see my drives. Is there any specific BIOS settings that I need to do? The drives have been setup as an Array in the Promise FastTrack utility.
Thank you for your help
Ammar
November 4, 2009 at 5:46 AM
Nevermind. Windows 7 sees it after I changed the BIOS setting to IDE mode under Promise controller setting.
Thanks Again!
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March 10, 2010 at 2:24 AM
Sweet!!! I’m glad it helped. I have this computer just about ready to test for the 64bit version, it may be hard to crack but I might as well do it.
usefulwindows
March 10, 2010 at 7:24 AM
this was well written. let me know how your 64 bit runs go. i’ve also been babying a a8v deluxe model with windows 7 64 bit and i’ve been trying to solve all the compatibility problems with it so far…last problem i have to solve is the ram mystery and why enabling the memory hole crashes the computer blaming it on the vid card.
maxxxelectronics
March 23, 2010 at 4:06 PM
I was able to load Windows 7 x64 on my K8V SE using the x64 Xp driver found here http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=725888
Be sure to hit Refresh after installing and be sure to put the Win& install CD back in after loading the driver else you will get a 0×8030001 error meaning installation cd not found.
Thanks for the Great Post.
Andy
April 11, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Thank you, I will be trying this and updating the post
usefulwindows
April 12, 2010 at 6:38 AM
We have an ASUS PCH-DL with the Promise 378 and run correct the SATA Controller with the W2003 driver from the Promise Web:
http://firstweb.promise.com/support/file/Driver/2_SATA150_TX_Series_Driver_1.00.0.27.zip
Is the driver for the SATA150 TX Series (The Promise378 is the TX2 Plus)
I hope solve a part of problems.
Thanks for the initial post.
Flash
April 12, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Hey there,
Thanks very much for the instructions. They looked promising for use with the Fastrak 376 Controller as well, but tried the same steps with those drivers and it didn’t work.
After a day, decided to give up on it and just get a different IDE drive to use with my K8V board. Rather unfortunate, though.
Cheers.
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For the past year (on and off)I’ve been trying differnt methods to get my A8V-Deluxe mobo to recognize SATA drives. Luckily I seemed to have typed in the right search string and your link was the 1st one from Google. Everything works like you said; one thing though (for novices like myself), when it came to finding the 2003 drivers during the install I actually had to browse for it, the Windows installation could not find it automatically. Otherwise all I got to say is “Thank you, thank you, thank you………thx
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June 14, 2011 at 6:06 AM
I was happy that I had found this but i had tried this and still got no where with it. Windows still will not start its process since it will not notice the hdd. This had windows 7 on it before the previous windows crashed and the disk went bad. Now I had been given a 1Tb Hdd. Would you possibly be able to help?
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Mark
October 6, 2011 at 4:54 PM
An important blog post, thanks to contributors – K8V SE Deluxe is a great model.
First I have a warning about a Promise driver and IDE data corruption.
Several have reported about a Windows driver which appears to work. I think this could be the ATA/IDE mode driver on ASUS site (some are dual RAID/ATA but will not install at boot time). I installed it to a working 32-bit Windows XP, hoping to see my Caviar Black 1TB (jumpered for SATA150). I did, but the driver caused severe IDE corruption – this affected two other IDE drives! I was lucky to see Disk errors (check Event Viewer System events), remove the device, and repair my drives. Others were not so lucky and lost it all. So if you are not sure, it’s safer to disconnect other drives.
I’m still trying to find a working Windows 7 64-bit driver (ATA/IDE mode) and unfortunately, none of the drivers and tricks yet worked. One driver allowed setup to continue, but the system could not boot -restarted with a blue-screen disk “Stop” error. I’d like to post a solution if I can find one…
Abiogenesis
October 20, 2011 at 4:44 PM
An important blog post, thanks to contributors!
First I have a warning about disk corruption.
Several have reported about a Windows driver which appears to work. I think this could be the 1.00.0.26 ATA/IDE mode driver for XP on ASUS site (some are dual RAID/ATA but will not install at boot time). I installed it in a working 32-bit Windows XP, hoping to see my Caviar Black 1TB (jumpered for SATA150). I did, but the driver caused severe IDE corruption – this started to destroy two other IDE drives! I was lucky to see Disk errors (check Event Viewer System events), remove the device, and repair my drives. Others were not so lucky and lost it all. So if you are not sure, it’s safer to disconnect other drives.
I’m STILL trying to find a working Windows 7 64-bit driver and unfortunately, I have tried at least 6 and I think only one driver (1.00.0.26) recognized the drive, but the system could not boot and restarted with a blue-screen disk “Stop” error. I’d like to hear a solution or post one if I find it.
Mechanix
October 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Thanks for the info!
I had a lot of trouble installing Windows 7 x64 on Promise FastTrak 378, ATA mode. One driver that worked for me: “Microsoft Windows x64 miniport driver” “1.00.1.41″ Date in .inf: 05/23/2005
I uploaded this here in hope it might be useful: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DBJMOG5X
Mechanix
October 25, 2011 at 6:01 AM
Thanks for the post. But I have not found an x64 driver that works right in ATA mode (the VIA controller won’t recognize one drive, and I didn’t want to set myself up for data recovery issues with RAID). Getting to this point was a nightmare of Windows 7 installing and CD burning that finally ended with me shutting off the machine when I realized the driver was actually corrupting sectors on my other ATA drives. A shame because this old board really rocks. But I’m encouraged to try x86… Good work!
Mechanix
October 26, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Thanks for all the info, I never could get Windows 7 to see that drive on the Promise Sata ports (the Via ones worked fine though) I unfortunetly fried the motherboard trying to get it to work and have since accepted it a loss. Oh well on to the next issue. Hey I hope you check out my new website http://www.usefulwindows.com
Thanks again
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