Nodens wrote:
In addition to what cx-ray said, make sure you put them either on a usb flash disk on a USB 2 port or a floppy disk.

Ummm...what's a 'floppy disk'? 😄

Thanks for the responses cx-ray and Nodens.

I'll give this a whirl and report back. I am using a 2nd USB 2 stick for the driver install.

Cheers!

No luck.

"The [Intel(R) C600 Series Chipset SATA RAID Controller (C:\RSTe_f6_iaStorA_64bit\iaStorA.inf)] device driver could not be installed. Contact your vendor for an updated driver."

...msg appears after some sort of time-out I believe, as the green progress bar cycles thru multiple iterations and then the driver install eventually gives up.

Win7 Professional SP1 is on a bootable USB 2 stick inserted into the ROG USB 2 port.
I tried putting the drivers on a separate USB 2 stick, and also on the Windows bootable stick. Neither worked.

Any other options?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe for any assistance provided.

Cheers,

FirstFlyte.

Nodens wrote:
Try a different driver version. The one before 3.5.0.1101. If that fails as well then there's something wrong with your setup as the driver files read must be corrupted. That could be for a variety of reasons but try using another driver version and if it fails we'll get to that:)

So...I gave the drivers listed in this thread over at hardforum.com a whirl and they worked! (wasn't entirely thrilled that the driver file was a Mediafire download - typically try to stay away from that sort of thing).

Snippet from the txtsetup.oem file:

# Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Intel Corporation
# *****************************************************************************************************
# *****************************************************************************************************
# ** Filename: txtsetup.oem
# ** Revision: 12/02/2011,3.0.0.3011
# ** Abstract: Windows* OEM File for Intel(R)Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise RAIDPort SATA Drivers
# *****************************************************************************************************
#

Regardless, I seem to be much further along now. Thanks very much for the 'try a different driver' suggestion. I'd already tried several, but thought I'd give this one a whirl, and voila! 🙂

Cheers,

FirstFlyte

ps. the Starting Windows screen is up now...has been for a while. Fingers X'd.

Nodens wrote:
Glad you sorted it out. Any of the RSTe drivers should be installable on your board though so try installing the latest from Intel after the installation finishes. Get the installer package for this not the F6 one 🙂

But alas, no success just yet. The Starting Windows screen remains for quite some time, eventually crashing and causing a machine reboot - this in a loop. I will try the other RSTe drivers from here and see if that helps any.

Cheers,

FirstFlyte