SATA Driver for 64 bit (Tyan s2875 mobo)

[Arkman]

I have a tyan s2875 mobo with a sata hard drive. When I try to install windows 7 64bit it says it cant find a hard drive. Its done that to me every since I got the mother board. No biggie, I just put in my usb with the drivers and got it to work. Now with windows 7 i cant get it to see the drivers. Am I doing something wrong. I can't find a driver that will work. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[fireman604]

I am using tyan 2885 mother board windows 7 7100. With a highpoint raid card. I am not using on board sata for the operating system hard drive. Try the usb in another port, or try using a floppy drive, even with update not clean install I need to add drivers. using the floppy keeps the install simpler because it lists floppy as A drive the usb is listed at first as c drive, It does install on c drive but it takes time to think about it

 

[Arkman]

Ok, I will have to hook up my Floppy drive. Any thoughts on where to find the driver though? I can't seem to find any. I have an older IDE drive sitting around that I think I might use instead. That one should work.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[fireman604]

Go to Tyan web site, find drivers for your mother board, you can use vista drivers, I just checked there where drivers for your board there.2007/04/27SiliconImage_SiL3114_SATARAID_2k_XP_2k3_Vista_64.zip OS: Windows XP 64-bit / Windows 2003 64bit / Windows Vista 64-bit /
SATA (Ultra/RAID) for embedded chipsets
Silicon Image SATA Driver for S2850, S2875, S2881, S2882, S2882-D, S2885, S4880, S4882, S4882-D, S5112 - RAID (WinXP, Win Server 2003, Win Vista 64-bit)

2007/04/27SiliconImage_SiL3114_SATARAID_2k_XP_2k3_Vista_32.zip OS: Windows 2000 / Windows XP 32-bit / Windows 2003 32-bit / Windows Vista 32-bit /
SATA (Ultra/RAID) for embedded chipsets
Silicon Image SATA Driver for S2850, S2875, S2882, S2882-D, S2885, S4880, S4882, S4882-D, S5112 - RAID (Win2K, WinXP, Win Server 2003, Win Vista 32-bit)

 

[Arkman]

Well, thanks for the drivers. I couldn't get them to work. I tried both of them but nothing worked. I can see the driver it just says they are not compatable with this hardware or something. I also tried all the usb ports and was going to try a floppy but i guess my drive is bad I'm thinking I'll just use and old ide drive instead.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Arkman]

I got it to work on the ide drive after a bit of playing around. Thanks for the help fireman!

 

[fireman604]

I think that to use the sata drive it needs to be set as first drive seen. My Tyan board checks the ide drive first by default. Get into bios and check boot order. My guess is ide is before sata drive, leave dvd first you are not using floppy sata than ide drive. remove ide drive before install so boot secor does not get placed on it

 

[trapp2612]

i have a tyan s2895 and win7 doesnt work on my computer because i have 2 sata hdds in raid 0. i tried many drivers but no one worked. what can i do?

 

[fireman604]

I am using a Highpoint card 1820 with 5 raptor drives in raid 5. I am not using the onboard SATA raid. I believe if you use the onboard sata connections there is a setting for using them in raid or as single drives in th bios., hope that helps

 

[trapp2612]

that means that i can not use the onboard controller for a raid bundle and i have to use the hdds as singles?

 

[fireman604]

Raid driver is different than single driver. Also make sure raid drive is seen first in bios, before ide drive.

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1) Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Fresh Installation
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Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new
installation of Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, and you wish to
boot from a device attached to the SiI SATARaid controller.

1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI SATARaid
controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up
the system.
2. Put your Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive.
3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning
of text mode installation. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to
specify an additional device, and insert the diskette labeled
'Silicon Image SiI SATARaid Driver Installation Disk'.
Press 'Enter'. From the menu presented next, select
'Silicon Image SiI SATARaid Controller'
4. Press 'Enter' again when prompted to continue on with text mode setup.
5. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for
partition and file system.
6. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to
Windows installation folders and restart the system.
The setup program will continue and finish the installation
after restart.
7. Wait until Windows finishes installing devices, regional
settings, networking settings, components, and final set of
tasks, reboot the system if it is required.
8. See instructions in section 4 to verify controller was installed
correctly.

 

[fireman604]

I believe I only installed one set of drivers because I was not using onboard raid. Make that I did not have to insstall any drivers for silicon drivers. let windows 7 install. If you want to use on board raid need to press F6 when it askes for drivers in install set up. It was at this point I install drivers Hi point raid card. It has been some time since I installed fresh from beginning using on board raid. I use a raid card for more drives and my Hi point card bypasses some of the hardware bridges, I apppoligise for being brain dead I spent most of the night fighting a structure fire. Ask questions to get me thinking .

 

[trapp2612]

thank you for your help.

but when i installed windows xp or vista with raid, i had to use nforce 4 drivers because my motherboard has a nforce raid controller "Nvidia nforce RAID class controller". And those drivers doesnt work for win7 i tried diffrent versions from tyan.com, nvidia.com,...

so maybe the nvidia 4 raid controller isnt compatible with win7 and i have to configure my hdds as singles not as raid.

or is there any way to get the nforce 4 sata-raid 0 working with win7?

 

[trapp2612]

i have windows 7 installed successfully. Thank you. But now my sound card doesnt work :-( and there is no audio driver for windows 7 x64

 

[fireman604]

go to tyan look which chipset it is using, I think it is a realtec driver down load and install. with telling us, the forum what you got it is tough to pick a driver for you sorry out last night again fighting fires

 

[tiertier]

Hi... im having a similar problem with my tyan s2875. I am trying to use a seagate 500Gb sata hdd and install windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. I downloaded the sata drivers and attempt to load them when windows is looking for the harddrive. It does see the driver and lets me select it, however after clicking next it tells me that i cant use the driver because it is not signed. How can i get this install to work? Thanks!

 

[vtry]

In case anyone else runs across this thread looking for a solution (as I did) here is what I found:

If you can identify the SATA driver used on your Tyan motherboard there is a chance you can find the right driver at the manufacturer's site. I have an older Tyan S2882-D MB which uses a Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA RAID Accelerator. After a little work investigating the specific version of the Sil3114 (based on status messages during boot up) I was able to find a suitable driver on Silicon Image's site - Silicon Image - Support | Search Results. To my surprise the "SiI 3114 64-bit Windows BASE Driver for Windows 7" worked and I was able to easily install Windows 7.

Hope this helps someone else as well... (and why can various Linux distributions include this driver but MS cannot??)