On 2014-03-09 20:07, James Maki wrote:
I have installed Windows Home Server 2011 on an ASRock FM2A88X
Extreme4+
FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD
Motherboard.
The drivers installation disk does not seem to do the job of installing
all
the drivers, leaving the Sata RAID, USB 3.0 and two USB drivers not
installed. I tried to manually install the RAID drivers but get the
error
message:
"This package requires AMD Catalyst Install Manager, but it is not
found on
the system. Please obtain and install AMD Catalyst Install Manager from
AMD.com to continue installing this package."
When I used the disk-based Catalyst install software, it generated an
error
message, but did install the video drivers.
Is this just an incompatibility with the new chipset and Windows Home
Server? Is there a way to get the drivers to install?
Thanks for any insight or direction you can provide.
Thanks,
Jim Maki
[email protected]
The driver CD on the Asrock is worthless because it's expecting Windows7
(or maybe 8) WHS2011 is more closely to Server 2008R2.
So, here's what you've got to do.. Forget the 'manual install' method
you may be trying, the best method is to grab AMD's latest.. and EXTRACT
it. Don't even try to run any part of it's install.
Download the SATA Floppy Install.
FYI, Do NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT use the RAID function on the board. While
Server2011 doesn't do drive pooling the same way that WHSv1 did, the
RAID controller support in it is not good for the way that AMD does it..
you'll find yourself losing a ton of data with it. Just grab Flexraid.
I use a lot of WHS2011 because it's cheap, combine with Flexraid and
you're still about $90 here (WHS: $39, FlexRaid: $39 when it goes on
sale)
As to USB 3.0.. That gets slightly trickier, but not by much. Grab the
AMD driver package, but extract it (WinRAR will) just use the INFs and
install through Device manager.
