Drivers for hard drive?!?

I'd navigate throughout the BIOS and look at any setting that was related to IDE, SATA, AHCI, Legacy support etc and try to find a combination of settings that will get you past the error. Make note of what the current settings are so you can always return to the current setup.

There's probably a place or two in the BIOS related to that stuff and it might have an enable/disable switch or it might have several choices. You just have to experiment if you cannot find a bona fide Win 7 driver--which should be out there somewhere.

Okay, I'm going to give that a shot now since I'm having no luck finding a driver.

Major props to you, sir. It worked.


I went into BIOS, changed the SATA operation mode from Enhanced to Compatible (I think. It was the only other option) and it worked. Installing seven right now.

Again, thankyouthankyouthankyou. Such a simple solution that I'd have probably never thought of.

Good--you may be able to go back into the BIOS after the installation and return that setting to the way it was, but I'm not sure if that would be of any benefit. You oughta Google for more detail on that after you are up and running. I don't know if there is any downside to leaving it set the way it is now.

Okay, changed it back to Enhanced and it wouldn't start up.

Then I went to ASUS's site to download the drivers. Couple of things:

1. It doesn't actually list any downloads for windows 7 specifically. The two OS's to choose from are Windows Vista, either 32 or 64 bit.

2. I CAN select "other" operating system, and the latest bios release reads as such:
"Fix Brightness level is not sync. to Windows Mobility Center in Windows 7". Would an updated BIOS even fix the problem??

1) Reset your BIOS to default.

2) What model do you have?

theog said:

1) Reset your BIOS to default.

2) What model do you have?

1) Default is enhanced mode. If I do that it won't start up. If it's in compatibility mode, it starts just fine, so that's where I am now.

2) It says the model is the X83V. A few lines down it says X83VM-X1. I'm reading off the sticker on the bottom of the notebook.

X83VM-X1 has a Intel Sata Controller:

Download from here: Intel Sata Controller Drivers


SATA Driver - Load in Windows 7 or Vista Setup

Well this is odd. I tried to install this one:
Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology



Then this one:

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager


And they both said my computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

...???