JabbaPapa wrote:

Just go to a proper computer shop, with real computer techies who work there instead of simply salesmen in a suit

He said "They only have Fry's" he is either going to have to order online or have enough info that when he goes into the store he will know what he is talking about, so he is going to have to have some suggestions as to hardware.

I am thinking he needs something like this..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280003

yeshuas wrote:

JabbaPapa wrote: Just go to a proper computer shop, with real computer techies who work there instead of simply salesmen in a suit He said "They only have Fry's" he is either going to have to order online or have enough info that when he goes into the store he will know what he is talking about, so he is going to have to have some suggestions as to hardware. I am thinking he needs something like this.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280003

Yeh sorry, I was just coming on to edit that comment -- thanks for helping out

Unfortunately he is correct about Fry's the people there are clueless. They appear to have a list of items for the day to sell, e.g. the sales add of the week and are instructed to sell off of it. I.e. If you come in for say the SAT-A controller card and they don't have that on the sales add, they try to sell you a harddrive or a graphics card because it is on the sales add and they want to sell you something.

I did check out Fry's online site and they are very limited as to that type of controller card, that is why I checked out NewEgg.

After I got this big speech abou how is not going to work @ micro center store he gave me wrong card(lol)Finally I went back and got this,Made By BYTECC ,PCI Express Controller Card,part#BT-PESAPA PCIE-SATAll+PATA CARD.I put in and hooked the 2 lines,and the computer does not start right.It can't get to window.Do I need to use that little driver disk comes with it?I should ask have I got the right card?AI think this not working with vista.

I noticed when u hit ESC to boot only sees the hdd.

You may have to install the driver off the disk yes

I don't think this card supports vista,I think he just lied.

scrambledlife wrote:

I don't think this card supports vista,I think he just lied.

Yes, I think you're right -- and it doesn't appear to be on Microsoft's hardware compatibility list.

Useful tip -- when a product supports Vista, it has the Vista logo printed on the box

I guess you could *try* loading the XP x64 driver, it can sometimes work.

Go to http://www.byteccusa.com/driver.htm and click on the BT-PESAPA link. Save the unpacked contents of the archive to the USB flash key.

Make sure both the optical drive and the hard drive are wired to the card.

Then when attempting to run setup try and load drivers contained in the folder at \JMB36X\Floppy64

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However it is unlikely to work, and yes I think the guy just lied to you

I know u guys checked and didn't see no more questions....OK,A BIG GOOD NEWS.We got it.Now I went got the pci card with 64 friendly and Papa it did not work,so as I am playing around I deleted the recovery file from FACTORY-IMAGE on my computer and it mean time computer is downloading new uploads(I saw this later It may have some to do with it too) after finishing I put the 64 OEM Ultimate and ran it from computer I think u call it as a upgrade and Body marry marrrry christmas for both of u and because of u guys and teaching and teaching me NOW I got vista ultimate on hp and I just finished downloading sp1.As I learned 30 years ago coming this country anything it's possible as long as u have couple of good friends and I never could do without u so I thank both of u and again and again.tyvm

Oh by the way I had some driver issues with pci,ethernet and...4 or 5 but since I had the factory image file with all the drivers and I had no problem I just update them from there.Now u see I am learning.thanks a million again