XP x64 Edition with A8V?

[RadiclDreamer]

I tried installing XP x64 edition on my machine running an Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard with 3500+ cpu. I used the 378 Promise drivers for my RAID controller and it sees the drives and installs fine but when it gets to the point where it should boot for the first time it reboots with no error given. I have then tried doing a safe mode boot, last known good as well as a reinstall in case something didnt go right the first time. Is this maybe a bug in the prmise drivers and I should try installing on my non RAID drive?

Anyone with any experience with this would be a big help

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Anyone?

 

[CaptnKirk]

I don't think that the RAID drivers are fully functional in the 64-Bit mode.

My system has no problems with RAID from the 32-Bit side, but when
I boot from the 64-Bit HDD, RAID is not functional, so I live with Dual Boot for now.

Thats 2 separate hard drives - you can't partition & share a HDD between 32-Bit & 64-Bit,
separate installs on each drive.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I'll try it tonight with the single drive on normal IDE

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Are you sure the BIOS is set to boot from the SATA drive? It may be trying to boot off a non-attached IDE drive.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I've come to the conclusion that support for x64 edition of XP sucks the big one, creatives drivers suck ass and are time limited (they expire...wtf)

The drivers for my RAID controller on my mobo is not supported. And other drivers that are available are buggy. I see little to no speed increase so I'm sticking to 32 bit for the time being........

 

[Canterwood]

Early adopters generally have a hard time.

It will take a few months for drivers to be released and stable enough to use day to day.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I've come to the conclusion that support for x64 edition of XP sucks the big one, creatives drivers suck ass and are time limited (they expire...wtf)

The drivers for my RAID controller on my mobo is not supported. And other drivers that are available are buggy. I see little to no speed increase so I'm sticking to 32 bit for the time being........

Creative's drivers are time-limited so that people don't keep using them; they're still officially experimental drivers, so they don't want to get stuck supporting them in any way. On the plus side however, this also forces Creative to release new drivers periodically, since their old ones expired, so it's a neutral if not consumer-positive situation. As for your mobo RAID controller, what board and controller is it?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Uh, Try reading my first post. Its clearly stated there and in the title.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I've come to the conclusion that support for x64 edition of XP sucks the big one, creatives drivers suck ass and are time limited (they expire...wtf)

The drivers for my RAID controller on my mobo is not supported. And other drivers that are available are buggy. I see little to no speed increase so I'm sticking to 32 bit for the time being........

I think you may have not thought it through that well as I do when I am frusterated with my computer- remember that you will need X64 drivers for all your hardware ---- THIS this should solve your problem it is the promise 64-bit driver from ASUS - if you go with X64 you will need THIS Marvell driver for your LAN remember you need OS specific drivers

 

[Lukozer]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I tried installing XP x64 edition on my machine running an Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard with 3500+ cpu. I used the 378 Promise drivers for my RAID controller and it sees the drives and installs fine but when it gets to the point where it should boot for the first time it reboots with no error given. I have then tried doing a safe mode boot, last known good as well as a reinstall in case something didnt go right the first time. Is this maybe a bug in the prmise drivers and I should try installing on my non RAID drive?

Anyone with any experience with this would be a big help

I don't think the problem is to do with the RAID drivers. I have the same problem as you, the system gets to the point where it should boot and it then it just reboots without warning or error. Once it does manage to boot it, it's fine, but booting seems to be a real task. The only thing our systems seem to have in common (apart from the obvious Athlon 64 and XP x64 ones) is that we are both using VIA chipsets... I'm using the K8T890 chipset. It's possible that VIA's chipsets aren't so great when in a 64bit environment. I'm still looking for the answer, as event viewer and the MS knowledge base constantly says the error was caused by a device driver, but can't identify which. It could be chipset drivers, but then right now i still haven't been able to rule out graphics card or even RAM yet...

 

[Sparky19692]

Almost the same thing here but with a TWIST! RC1 1289 Runs Great!
I am Not using raid just the SATA VIA which I downloaded the driver for.
Everything worked Great in RC1 but I have the same problem at window first real boot. If I leave the system alone it will simply reboot all night with no errors. If anyone finds out why Please let me know.

 

[Sparky19692]

Well I'm up and running now. Needed aNew VIA DRIVERthe other one would allow me to load but not run see my post above.