G50Vt Raid drivers for Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

For the life of me, I cant get Windows 7 ultimate to work in the G50vt. I created a clean raid and its ready to be used. When Windows 7 Ultimate boots of CD it will ask for drivers, I downloaded the drivers from Asus for Windows 7 64bit and it wont work. "It gives out the error no new devices could be found"

I then went and tried the Vista 64 bit driver and got the same result. I then went to the intel web page and got the same result with those drivers. I dont know what else to try. Has anyone been sucessful of installing the Raid 0 options from scratch on a G50vt? Anyone have any other drivers to try? I also tried some from other laptop manufactures and got the same issue. Any help will greatly be appretiated.

 

I put Win7 Home Premium recently on my G50Vt with RAID0. I tried upgrading from the stock Vista Home Premium, but it failed. Then I did a clean install, but I think I started the process from within Vista, as opposed to booting from the Win7 DVD. The install proceeded without issues, then I used all the Win7 drivers from the Asus support website.

I suppose if you can't boot properly from the Win7 DVD you can start from within Vista and trick it into working that way. Hope this helps.

 

Mind giving a better explanation on the Vista trick? Thanks

I disabled the raid for grins and I still get stuck at the same part, so its not the Raid driver as I taught originally. Its something else it is not seeing. Ne1 done any clean install of Windows 7 on a G50?

Maybe change the bios settings from enhance mode down to compatible mode to get it to install.

Even in compatible mode I get the same error. It will ask to install some driver, I have tried chipset drivers and Intel storage drivers with no luck.

I cant believe I having such a hard time installing Windows 7 on this laptop

 

Hmmm, very strange. It does appear that the driver is not the problem. Perhaps your DVD is bad?

I wouldn't call my Vista thing a trick. I was just trying to do an in-place upgrade because I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my programs and settings. The upgrade thing seemed to get stuck at some point for half an hour, then it kept going. I wandered off to get some other work done and when I came back again it was back at my old Vista desktop and there was an error message saying that the upgrade had failed. So then I did a clean install, but I don't recall if I ran setup from within Vista and then chose the clean install option, or if I restarted and booted from the DVD itself.

I recall you are currently running ubuntu; maybe Win7 doesn't like the way ubuntu does partitions? (I know very little about linux)

 

Hey it was a bad DVD download. I got on my technet account and redownload and it work without a glitch. I installed just about everything and its working great. I only have 1 issue as of now. In my device manager it still shows 2 unknown devices. All of my hot keys work, my touchpad workes just about everything. If anyone know what it could be please let me know.

In the Device Manager, it shows the 2 devices as a base system device. Dont know what it could be. Any sugestions? Thanks

 

joeelmex i belive one of your unkown devices is the ir reciever