MSI 880gm-E41 BUOS backup and upgrade procedures AHCI SATA RAID driver  

Kind of curious. You have an 880GM motherboard but the driver you're trying to install is for a different motherboard. Are the drivers supposed to be the same?

I'm not aware of any discrepancies since they both come off the same link. Always a possibility of error like misspelling the subject line. What should I be looking for?

Jeez, yes. I just reread what you saw. I may have my wires crossed. Will look again.

Here is the thing itself. The instructions shown in the screen shot mention floppy drives so this routine might
be just too old. I do have a 1.44 in storage but the details start with XP and the go on to show
Win7 which does not pause for that old F6 routine which I remember trying on a PC that is even
older than this.

Can these be extracted to pen drive or cd?

The page is simply the one given from my previous question on BIOS upgrades which
are finally done. I have made an SSD and it runs on the 880gm. That may be all there is, but

I understood that SSD efficiencies and utilities do not function without these upgrades.

Support For 880GM-E41 | Motherboard - The world leader in motherboard design | MSI Global

I will try to do the procedure they give while waiting for reply and using a cd.

Ok I went through everything again and have a screen shot showing the prompts.


At the last select, that prompt looks for something it can't find which is ATI Catalyst Installer.


Anything I find related to Calalyst installer and reinstalling that is all about graphics drivers

since that what Catalyst is. Any search links go to the ubiquitous Toms Hardware (always what Google presents regardlless of the question) which is always on top and does not provide any adequate answers.


When Windows says it cannot open the thing and and presents some options, Catalyst is not in that nor
can I find it any other way on a browse. I have installed it several times-- it's all graphics setup.-- and ads.



This is why I mentioned an insertion dll or something to install the thing direct.

I didn't look at the MSI link your provided. I did a search on the 880gm-e43 and came up with a similar page. Basically, they're the same and the drivers do apply to a 7xx motherboard (and others) so you have the correct one.

I can't answer why the setup is having a problem with the Catalyst installation manager. If you look in the Bin 64 folder, it's there as InstallManagerAPP.exe. It might be helpful to run it first rather than run the setup.exe.

Thanks for this response.

Where is the bin install manager then: In Windows folder? Can you give the directory tree for that?
Anything to bypass what is certainly a broken link or bad program element. In the folder under discussion there is four elements. One is AHCI64.exe and some dll and text files to describe. It doesn't complete either.

I don't know if these problems are historic-- going back to when the board was current. One thing I can think of is the fact that the video is onboard. Both of my MSIs have that and I have never moved off of it.


This Catalyst business seems to be a lot more trouble for driver install than I am getting out of it. Right now it's just something I want to fix.

I'll see over the days what the 880 - 43 board build has in the way of an AHCI driver download.

Catalyst has always been something I thought to be an interference and intrusion on system. Now when I need to access the install manager I cannot even see it in the programs list.

Veneet,


Thanks for the diagnostic tips I overlooked on this. I'll report back any findings.
I recall that even finding the right submenu to locate the setting is not straightforward.
With all the BIOS upgrade steps completed, there are no obvious BIOS menu changes.

This search for AHCI error started when I wanted to use Adata SSD tools from their Utilities disk. I'll see if I canduplicate that error.

Also from earlier response on looking up 880gm E43, I saw no difference in the RAID driver
offered there: Exact same number, date and file size.