How to rid myself of unneeded RAID controller?

[dugawug]

i have a RAID controller under device manager that is sitting there needlessly, and after doing research, may be the cause of some system errors i get.

but i can't figure out how to get rid of this thing! in device manager it's there, but there is no option to disable. only to uninstall, which i did and when windows re-boots, it auto installs a generic driver for it.

i don't see any RAID settings in my BIOS at all...what can i do? btw, i'm using 2 SATA drives on my Asus A8V Deluxe's VIA SATA controller...

 

[peterdiva]

The thing in the BIOS you're looking for is called Onboard Promise Controller,it's in the advanced menu section under onboard devices configuration.

 

[dugawug]

Promise Controller I already have disabled actually... And still my device mananger shows a SATA RAID device....

 

[peterdiva]

What have you got the VIA controller set as.

 

[dugawug]

thanks for reply peterdiva...i'm not in front of my machine, but i would guess my VIA controller is enabled as my two hard drives are run of it...
is the VIA controller aka SATA BootROM?
SATA BootROM i do not have disabled...

 

[peterdiva]

The SATA BootRom has to be the VIA controller,which means it has to be enabled,but as you said there's no RAID settings.

So I had a look on ASUS's website for a separate SATA driver and there isn't one.The only driver is called SATA RAID driver package,so I would just go ahead and install this driver,it should either ask to install just the SATA driver or it uses the same one for both.