Trouble getting mobo drivers installed and other issue

[mevensen]

I put my major "upgrade" together last night -- essentially moving my old hard drives, optical and FDD into a new case with new mobo (ASUS P5W DH Deluxe), CPU (C2D 6600), and GPU (eVGA 8800GTX). I got the Repair install to work properly. When I went to install the mobo drivers from CD, I keep on getting an error message with Select.exe, basically the window that tells you it had to shut down. Tried 2 boots, same results.

Any idea? Either to resolve this error, or to work around so I can get all the drivers I need off the CD?

One other issue, I moved two IDE opticals over from my old system -- a DVD burner and CD burner. I believe they are set to Cable Select, but when both are plugged in, the DVD doesn't get recognized by the BIOS, and I can't boot to it (only the CD shows up, and I can't boot to that either). Unplugging the CD drive allows me to function normally with the DVD as a single drive.

[ktkendall]

I assume they are on the same IDE channel, correct??? If so try setting them as master and slave, I think optical drives sometimes need to be set up that way still.
Give a little bit more info on that driver issue. How exactly are you trying to install those??

[MaxRat]

go into the device manager and make sure all the old drivers are uninstalled...cpu, board and what ever else your not using...then check the add/remove programs also for old drivers...

[telegramsam]

Just leave one optical in for now and install the drivers from the device manager. You'll have lots of time later to put the other drive in and figure out how to configure them.

[blue60007]

Try installing the drivers individually. I don't know why you're getting the error, but you can install drivers without the little interface.

Open up the CD in Explorer (a right click and Open works from My Computer) and go to the Drivers folder. Use appropriate AsusSetup.exe installers from each folder. You'll want the 32bit Audio driver (unless you're using 64bit Windows). Use the one in the INF folder for chipset. LAN's under Win XP. USB's under Xp. When I installed these I think I used the interface, but all the interface does is start the individual installers from one place. Doing that manually has the same effect.

Do you have the opticals installed on the primary ide port? and not the secondary thirdy party port? Also, if you are using Cable select you need to have a 80-pin IDE cable.

[mevensen]

Thanks for the replies.

I tried switching to an 80 pin IDE cable and it actually resolved both issues!

[blue60007]

Cool, glad to see you got it working. Switching the dirves to master/slave probably would have fixed it too.