Vista Beta 2 Installtion Help Please

[Winchester1897]

HI Guys,

I am trying to install Windows Vista Beta 2 but it says I need a driver that I don't have and I can't find one that it likes. Heres a Picture of the screen of the message that comes up.
http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4395/dsc038426jc.th.jpg (http://img438.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc038426jc.jpg)

In my computer I have two dvd drives a NEC 3500a and a Lite-On SOHD-167.

If you guys could help me find some drivers for them that would be great.

Winchester1897

[djnes]

What type of controller are they connected to, because you don't need to load drivers for optical drives.

[Winchester1897]

I just have them connected with an ide cable to an ide slot on my motherboard.

[djnes]

What's the chipset of your motherboard?

[Winchester1897]

nForce 4 SLI

I have that one sli evga motherboard 133-K8-NF41-AX

[OldPueblo]

Does it have non-nvidia RAID controllers? Are you possibly using drives plugged into a Silicon Image RAID controller or some other vendor that Vista isn't detecting? I ask because the NV controllers should be detected by Vista, at least they were on my nforce4 board.

[Winchester1897]

They are EVGA raid controllers if I were to use them. But I am not using raid. I only have one hard drive pluged in as well.

[djnes]

eVGA doesn't make RAID controllers, so they are either the Nvidia ones or the Silicon Image ones, as OldPueblo mentioned. Do you have them set correctly in the BIOS, to have RAID functionality disabled?

[nobody_here]

remove the LiteOn drive and try it again. I had the NEC 3550A and installed Vista with that drive just fine.

[OldPueblo]

No offense, but I suggest you read your motherboard manual from cover to cover to get really familiar with what your motherboard does. You may have RAID controllers turned on whether you know it or not. They can be flipped on and off in the BIOS, use the same IDE ports you could be using, and they may be on by default from the factory. If they are, you have two options. Find the driver (harder possibly) or go into your BIOS (using your manual for reference) and make sure all RAID options are turned off. Then try again.

No CD-ROM/DVD-ROM should require a driver, that'd be incredibly rare and un-likely. What could also be happening is you might have a hardware issue (RAM, etc.) that is manifesting itself as an error reading from your DVD drive. The install program throws up "I can't read this disk, need driver" when what it really means is "error reading from that device because your RAM is bad/misconfigured, your processor is pooched, etc."

As the above said, simplify it to one drive at a time, make sure your jumpers are set properly, maybe run memtest (find and download ultimate boot cd) or even the vista memory checker that is supposedly included on the DVD drive somewhere.

[nobody_here]

they require a driver still, but the one included with Vista works fine, for the CD Drive at least...Vista also recognized my chipset, the NForce4

the only part i couldnt get a driver for is my crappy HP products, HP has other priorities, like ripping you off by telling you your ink cartridges are empty when not, etc...

[Winchester1897]

remove the LiteOn drive and try it again. I had the NEC 3550A and installed Vista with that drive just fine.
Thats what did it. Thanks for the help :)