and bashrat, plz remember the probleme with the promise 378 controller not working in xp (driver installed but device not available, with the need of use the http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/i … 104528.zip   driver)
and via sata+promise378 not present with win2000

regards and thx for your job!

on my asus a8v deluxe with 1gb ram amd 3000+ (promise 378 NOT in raid, via sata NOT in raid, via pata controller) i have just tryed the newest dp-base +all off dp + all 3rd party dp
with the default settings (only the ati control option is changed)

with win2000: finally no error at all during the first install boot (first time!!, the previous times i had always some error before and the first boot stops) , i see the hard disk selection page, but, unlucky only the pata connected hds

with winxp i have a strange problem, never see it before, the mouse is jerkily during the hard disk access (not only during the boot, but eg with opening a browser page), and during the boot the first windows sound is jerkily too
this is the first times i have this problem, and i have tryed many dp release
..and the promise 378 controller is recognized but not working unless i install the asus driver , like already reported

i hope in some, appreciated, help for the mouse/sound problem (driver conflict?)
i'm avaible, obviously, for any further information and sorry for the bad language