The PC that I assembled at home has an Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard. This board has a build-in Promise Fasttrak 20378 SATA controller. The Vista default installation did not recognize this controller.
I did some googling and found this article that describes the problem. I tried the solutions that are suggest in the article, but with no success.
I am also having trouble getting Vista to recognize my external USB sound card (Creative Audigy 2 NX).
If someone has any idea on how to solve this, please let me know by dropping a comment.
technorati tags:Vista, Audigy 2 NX, Promise Fasttrak 20378 SATA controller
I'm not sure if you are using the 64 bit version or not, but I have the same controller on my motherboard and wrote up an article about it. See here
I recently installed Vista 64-bit/x64 and had trouble w/ my Audigy 2 NX as well. Vista recognized the NX, and said that it was successfully installed, but it did not work.
I have a partial solution. I downloaded the XP x64 driver for the NX from Creative (USBD_WEB64_W1_LB_1_00_0020.exe) , then uncompressed it (using WinRAR 3.7 beta 2, http://www.rarlabs.com). I then used Windows' Device Manager to update the drivers for the NX. I then selected "Browse my computer for driver software" and pointed it to the folder where I had uncompressed the driver.
I call this a partial solution because I don't have access to the EAX control panel, EQ, etc. (because the Creative software is not installed, just the device driver), but I now at least have sound coming out!