939Dual-SATA2 vs. 939Dual-VSTA

[Dean]

I just ordered a 939Dual-SATA2 recently and noticed it is not listed as Vista Compliant on the Asrock Website. The VSTA model does have that stamp of approval however.

I thought the boards were basically the same until I noticed the VSTA board has Vista 64 bit agp drivers and the sata2 does not. Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

[StormRider]

I thought the only difference was the VSTA model used a CMedia soundchip while the SATA model had a Realtek.

I'm surprised you were able to get one -- it seems like it's out of stock at all the places where I usually shop....

 

[Bill Kunert]

I had a Dual SATA2 and it ran Vista just fine. I had a problem with the first public beta but the 2 later public releases ran very well.

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by: StormRider
I thought the only difference was the VSTA model used a CMedia soundchip while the SATA model had a Realtek.

I'm surprised you were able to get one -- it seems like it's out of stock at all the places where I usually shop....

Yeah I got one that was "open box" from NCIX on the cheap. Does not look like it was ever opened though.

Right now I am just shopping for a good airflow case to put it in.

 

[MatthewF01]

Will the DualSATA2 run under Vista x64 though?

 

[Dean]

Update:


Put my system together yesterday. Had bios revision 1.2 so I decided to update it. It keeps saying the rom id was invalid.

So I logged into the bios and found out this is actually the vsta model according to the bios revision.

looked at the box again and it is model 939dual-vsta/a/asr

 

[Bill Kunert]

Originally posted by: MatthewF01
Will the DualSATA2 run under Vista x64 though?

Had Vista RC-1 64bit on my SATA2. Ran fine as far as I used it. Lack of driver support at that time caused me to remove it in favor of the 32 bit version.

 

[WT]

Only issue with my Asrock setup and Vista RC1 was the onboard LAN not working at bootup. The only easy workaround up to this point was to put the PC in sleep mode, then wake it back up right away. Worked fine after that, but I needed to do that every time I rebooted.

 

[tcsenter]

looked at the box again and it is model 939dual-vsta/a/asr

The SATA2 model was replaced several months ago with the VSTA revision, it would be unlikely there are any of the former left new in the channel. Even the VSTA revision is hard to find these days.