Asus K8S-MX 64 bit drivers

[wolluf]

Question 1 (must admit I'd be very pleasantly shocked if someone knows this!)

Any idea how to integrate 64 bit SATA/RAID drivers for this board into a 64 bit XP install CD? (its SiS 965L controller). Got 32 bit version to work - 64 bit doesn't work same way. Tried many variations based on sites I've researched. Tried getting nlite to do it. No joy. The driver definitely works - via F6 and a floppy (but had to connect floppy specially for the job - intended having none on the machine in question, as they seem to be on their way out - 64 bit SATA machines with no floppy will surely be standard
shortly.

Question 2

Has anyone got 64 bit sound drivers to work with this board and XP 64 bit? Latest drivers on the Sis site do not work (LAN and Graphics do work). Another post on Asus forums for K8S-MX with same problem is all I've seen for this.

PS. You may have guessed that I've decided to check out 64 bit processing (but with my limited resources, may give up shortly!)

PPS. Rhetorical question - why haven't MS incorporated SATA/RAID drivers in 64 bit version of XP. I hope longhorn will be better in this respect (both 32 & 64 bit).

 

[micker377]

Now you know the problem with 64 bit systems, there aren't many drivers yet. The drivers won't be written until the 64 bit is more common - the 64 bit won't be "mainstream" until the drivers are available! The same thing happened when we went from DOS (16 bit) to Win XP (32 bit). If you are old enough, the same thing happened to AM-FM radio and B&W-Color T.V. In fact, the same thing is happening now with digital TV: the networks aren't going to transmit full digital, until the T.V.'s are out there - the T.V.'s aren't going to sell until they start transmitting full digital signal! You are currently in the fore-front, what you do will help the rest of us. (Does that make you feel ant better?) <grin>

 

[wolluf]

micker - no! (well ok, if I can help the rest of the world with 64 bit, because I agree with you about 16 - 32 bit and any transistion in IT, nobody takes responsibility for it, and until the 'new' standard has been picked up by everybody...) - Cos I've got a driver that works (from the floppy) - its just integrating it into the install CD that doesn't work. Its not really a big deal - I take your point about 'when 64 bit is more common' - just thinking I could fill a gap!

PS - MS really could do with overhauling their set up processes for Windows. With this issue I've had to look at what happens in some detail - and on the web at least (which is surely best public resource), the sites with the best information are full of 'I don't know what this bit means'. Inf files, sif files, oem files etc, they all need a translator which isn't easily available (unless bill castner knows where!). To solve this problem, I just need to translate what's in the Txtsetup.oem and possibly sisraid2.inf file into what windows set up (txtsetup.sif?) will use. But there's no Rosetta stone. I can 'intelligently guess' in both directions, but some explicit 'this means that' help would be useful! My point is surely it should be transparently easy adding a mass storage driver to windows set up (put file a into place a, add this line to set up file under this heading sort of simple).