Win8.1 installation: drivers missing

Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300

JiiPee wrote:
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300

Are you absolutely sure the BIOS is set to AHCI ?

I somehow doubt AMD RAID would be in the Microsoft
installer DVD. You'd probably start with AHCI, install
to one disk drive, then do RAID migration.

Wikipedia says Windows 8 has changed the name of MSAHCI to
"STORAHCI" or something, so this recipe for re-arming the
driver detection later (after installation), may need to be
updated a bit. The link is where I got the info, and the site
may not be around any more (OCZ owned by Toshiba). Each registry
key, when loaded, allows the OS to switch to that driver type
on a reboot. After a reboot "the door is closed" again until
you rearm the ones you want. This allows multiple drivers
to be present, and select one or more at boot time, as
candidates.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...p/t-57789.html

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\pciide\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\msahci\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\iaStorV\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\iaStor\Start == 0

Your motherboard has A88X Bolton chipset, total eight SATA ports,
of which six are on the motherboard surface, two are on the
back on the I/O plate. There are no add-on chips I can see,
so we cannot blame an add-on chip for the error message.
That leaves the BIOS and change from RAID to AHCI.

*******

Another surprise for me, is the presence of a miniport driver
on the Asus site, and a claim it is for Windows 8. Windows 8
should have a built-in AHCI driver, which makes the addition
of a "driver disk" on the Asus site, a bit strange. Maybe it's
intended for RAID or something. I would think you could
install with AHCI, re-arm drivers, and get to RAID that
way, if that's your eventual destination. And then the
icing on the cake, is I don't see any RAID Management
package. If they're intending to support RAID, I can't
see a user being all too happy doing maintenance on it
at BIOS level. Maybe you'd need to search the AMD
site and their drivers, for RAID Management software ?

It's obvious I don't understand anything about this board.
A few curve balls are present. Out of the box, it should
have "just worked"...

HTH,
Paul

Thanks for the long answer... this helps, at least some direction. I ll
check what you said and come back soon with answers...

This what I currently think: It starts installing Win8.1, so DVD SATA
logically works, right? So am I right that its not a SATA issue because
DVD starts installation and its in SATA port? or SSD uses different
kind of SATA? I dont know much about these...

But i ll check your earlier questions, back soon...

On 19/03/2015 12:11, Paul wrote:

Your motherboard has A88X Bolton chipset, total eight SATA ports,
of which six are on the motherboard surface, two are on the
back on the I/O plate. There are no add-on chips I can see,
so we cannot blame an add-on chip for the error message.
That leaves the BIOS and change from RAID to AHCI.


I just checked everything from the BIOS and could not find anything
"RAID" (on) there. I have:
SATA configuration/OnChip SATA type = AHCI
(and the next SATA option after that also set to AHCI)

so seems like everything is AHCI

JiiPee wrote:
On 19/03/2015 12:11, Paul wrote:

Your motherboard has A88X Bolton chipset, total eight SATA ports,
of which six are on the motherboard surface, two are on the
back on the I/O plate. There are no add-on chips I can see,
so we cannot blame an add-on chip for the error message.
That leaves the BIOS and change from RAID to AHCI.


I just checked everything from the BIOS and could not find anything
"RAID" (on) there. I have:
SATA configuration/OnChip SATA type = AHCI
(and the next SATA option after that also set to AHCI)

so seems like everything is AHCI

While you could switch to IDE in the BIOS, and finish
the install, I don't know if the driver re-arming is
going to work or not. Even if you install the AMD AHCI driver
by using the INF, right-clicking and selecting "Install", I
don't know if the driver rearm recipe will have an entry
that makes the AMD driver a "candidate".

This is for a previous OS.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\pciide\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\msahci\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\iaStorV\Start == 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\iaStor\Start == 0

OK, in Windows 8, the key has changed from "Start" to StartOverride.
I spotted this in Regedit myself, and used it as a search term.
And someone went through hell here, by not getting that right (
had to do a "Reset" of the OS).

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a-cea5e97b8d11

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\storahci\startoverride == 0

And that key is how you use the built-in OS driver for AHCI.
The trick would be, if you did manage to get the AMD driver
installed, what key would it use ? The "storahci" is for
the built-in Windows 8 driver. You have to re-arm, then
reboot, to get a new driver to be picked up. So if you
cannot currently install Win8, and have to switch to IDE
in the BIOS to finish the install, there's still the issue
of how you set the rearm to get the AMD AHCI driver to "pick up".
If you get it wrong, you can always switch the BIOS back to IDE
and I presume it'll be bootable again.

In that article above, one of the commenters writes...

"I change "StartOverride" to "0" but,
once I reboot, it changes back to "3"
"

And that's exactly how it's supposed to work. The registry
setting is a "one-shot". You load a zero in there, and the
setting is only considered for one reboot cycle. After that,
it sets itself to 3, to prevent "rediscovery". So this recipe
must be used every time you try to change drivers.

When I've tested this, I tend to set both IDE and AHCI
keys. Then the idea is, if I foul up, I still have the
choice in the BIOS of selecting either IDE or AHCI.
And one of the two registry keys will take effect.
So you can arm more than one, if you know you're
a butter-fingers. That's how I did mine on an older OS.

OK, I had a look at my test machine, and there is no key for
this one.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\storahci\startoverride == 0

However, I can see things like this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\PciIDE\startoverride\0 == 3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\iastorAV\startoverride\0 == 3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\iastorV\startoverride\0 == 3

So those three are ready to be re-armed. Why doesn't my
storachi have one ? More weirdness...

*******

I had another look at that driver with the INF, and I don't
know about it. The applicable OS is "6.2" and I think
that's Windows 7. The date is 2013. I'm just not feeling
very warm about the applicability of that driver. It should
tell you it's not for that OS.

Something doesn't add up here - the process shouldn't be
that hard. My new build last year, installed immediately,
and there were no dramatic events. And I was probably
installing my Windows 8.1 image and using the rollups
after that.

Paul

On 19/03/2015 14:11, Paul wrote:


Something doesn't add up here - the process shouldn't be
that hard. My new build last year, installed immediately,
and there were no dramatic events. And I was probably
installing my Windows 8.1 image and using the rollups
after that.


yes agree, it should not be hard.
My first SSD installation. Do SSD drives normally work without problems
from the box with Win8.1? Or they need to be prepared?

On 03/19/2015 05:38 AM, JiiPee wrote:
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300



Seems you've browsed to the wrong folder


try the win7/8 RAID folder (and sub folders)

JiiPee wrote:
On 19/03/2015 14:11, Paul wrote:


Something doesn't add up here - the process shouldn't be
that hard. My new build last year, installed immediately,
and there were no dramatic events. And I was probably
installing my Windows 8.1 image and using the rollups
after that.


yes agree, it should not be hard.
My first SSD installation. Do SSD drives normally work without problems
from the box with Win8.1? Or they need to be prepared?

That too should be "it just works".

Paul

On 19/03/2015 14:35, philo wrote:
On 03/19/2015 05:38 AM, JiiPee wrote:
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300



Seems you've browsed to the wrong folder


try the win7/8 RAID folder (and sub folders)

ok, I ll try that now... although why would that be correct because I do
not have RAID setting on? I have AHCI set on SATA ... but I ll try
anyway....

On 19/03/2015 14:35, philo wrote:
On 03/19/2015 05:38 AM, JiiPee wrote:
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300



Seems you've browsed to the wrong folder


try the win7/8 RAID folder (and sub folders)

I tried, it did not help.

On 03/19/2015 09:47 AM, JiiPee wrote:

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300



Seems you've browsed to the wrong folder


try the win7/8 RAID folder (and sub folders)

ok, I ll try that now... although why would that be correct because I do
not have RAID setting on? I have AHCI set on SATA ... but I ll try
anyway....



I have no idea, when one thing does not work, I just try something else.

On 03/19/2015 10:03 AM, JiiPee wrote:
On 19/03/2015 14:35, philo wrote:
On 03/19/2015 05:38 AM, JiiPee wrote:
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver -
A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash
disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while
I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I
browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I
actually tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to
change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my
Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300



Seems you've browsed to the wrong folder


try the win7/8 RAID folder (and sub folders)

I tried, it did not help.


OK I was wrong.


Try Paul's advice then he always seems to be right.

JiiPee explained :
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load Driver - A
media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug in my flash disk
with the latest "RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA
drivers from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a while I
get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were found". If I browse
the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any drivers neither. I actually
tried all driver folders but none works. Then I have tried to change where my
SSD and DVD are in SATA ports but nothing changes. In my Bios seems like its
correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300

Access your BIOS / UEFI, disable USB3, a.k.a. set USB to legacy mode
and try the Windows 8.1 installation again.

This usually happens when you attempt to install 8/8.1 from a flash
drive connected to a USB3 port.

After the installation completes, go back to your bios and re-enable
USB3 then download the USB3 driver from Asus.

On 19/03/2015 15:26, none wrote:
JiiPee explained :
Donno if this is purely a Windows issue but because many people have
installed Win8.1 and might have seen this issue before I put it he
When I try to install Windows 8.1 I get an error message: "Load
Driver - A media driver your computer needs is missing". Then I plug
in my flash disk with the latest
"RAID_XPWin7-8-8-1_V120010359_130010154_130010220_6125" SATA drivers
from Asus web site and from there I browse Driver/Win8.1/AHCI/W864A.
After I press OK it seems like its searching something but after a
while I get an error: "Load Driver No new devices drivers were
found". If I browse the folder "W8" instead , it cannot find any
drivers neither. I actually tried all driver folders but none works.
Then I have tried to change where my SSD and DVD are in SATA ports
but nothing changes. In my Bios seems like its correctly AHCI selected.

Any idea how to solve this?

My PC:
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11A)
MB: Asus A88X-PRO
CPU: AMD A4 5300

Access your BIOS / UEFI, disable USB3, a.k.a. set USB to legacy mode
and try the Windows 8.1 installation again.

This usually happens when you attempt to install 8/8.1 from a flash
drive connected to a USB3 port.

After the installation completes, go back to your bios and re-enable
USB3 then download the USB3 driver from Asus.

I am installing Win8.1 from DVD, original DVD I bought