Ultra ata 133 ide controller........i installed this on a brand new gigabyte MB with windows 7..........Device manager knows its there but with a problem. I cannot locate drivers for this device anywhere........Onboard IDE has two HDD attached. The PCI is for the two optical drives......anyone know the answers here please. Ta. Jack. Newcastle

Driver is for Vista but should hopefully for Windows 7. This is a legacy card no further driverswill be added past Vista.

http://firstweb.promise.com/upload/Support/Driver/Ultra133%20TX2%20windows%202.1.0.3%20logo%20driver.rar

You can if you have an IDE connector on that motherboard.

No I do not think there is unfortunaely. Contact Maxtor and ask if they are going to support it under Windows 7?

Follow this link and choose Serial ATA from the dropdown list.
Then choose SA-IDE88 and the driver download will start.

http://www.sabrent.com/#section=Drivers&itemName=&itemID=0

The drivers for this ATA Controller Card are resident in Windows, just like the Motherboard's onboard ATA/IDE Controller. If they don't autodetect and load make sure you are running at least Service Pack 2 for Windows XP and SP4 for Win 2000. Vista and later will have resident drivers.

You can plug it in and see if Vista can use any of its drivers for it. In many cases it has drivers for the chipset on the card which will work perfectly well with the device.

Well first I would pull the hard drive out of the case. I would then get a USB to IDE/SATA drive cable. I would connect the drive not being able to be detected to another computer via USB.

If it works the drive is still good but the data might be corrupt. If the data is corrupt I would be sure to get any stuff you can off of it and basically reformat and reload.

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Sounds like the system is trying to boot from the drives attached to the controller. Go into your setup and make sure the system is set to boot from the proper drive.

I don't think you can boot off of the ATA-133 so you will have to boot off of the IDE on the mobo and have the DVD drive jumpered cable select on the 2nd IDE. Boot that way to make sure the system boots. Shut down. Then instll the ATA-133 adapter with NO DRIVES on it and boot. The system should ask you for drivers for the new hardware. Intall the drivers. Shut down. Attach the new drives to the ATA-133. Reboot. You still might have to go into admin in windows and assign drive letters to the new drives. Anyway, if you are trying to boot off of a drive on the ATA-133 adapter, I don't think you can do it. I have mostly used Asus boards with Award Bios and there was no way to point the boot process to an add-on ATA Controller.