Chipset drivers for VIA chipsets
danball1976
Wichita Falls, TX
I really wonder if it is a good idea to install these drivers for the chipset, VIA released an updated driver set back in September for their chipsets. Will it improve performance any since I never bothered to install the drivers, I just used the default drivers that come with Windows.
In fact, I've never installed the chipset drivers for any motherboard I've ever owned.
In fact, I've never installed the chipset drivers for any motherboard I've ever owned.
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Chipset drivers are specifically designed because the default Windows ones are absolutely awful.
Although, thinking about it, I only attempted the install in Windows 98/98SE/ME but never in Windows XP.
--EDIT--
Installed the drivers, well, now Windows boots up, then the screen goes blank, and there is a little bit of hard drive activity, and then Windows restarts, then asks if I should start normally or start in safe mode. I'm in safe mode right now.
I booted to "Last known configuration that worked" and uninstalled the drivers. Am I not supposed to install using the setup file? I guess it would be better if I manually installed the driver.
--EDIT 1--
Success, but re-detected everything on the PCI bus, required two re-boots.
--EDIT 2--
Updated driver for VIA Standard Host bridge, no re-boot required
--EDIT 3--
Installed VIA CPU to AGP2.0/3.0 driver, reboot required -- testing
If you run dxdiag, and see that AGP Texture Acceleration is disabled/not available, the board is running the AGP card in PCI mode, and there's nothing you can do about it.
This time, I am installing the full package, minus the AGP driver.
And if it matters, the voltage is 1.54V
--EDIT--
Do you think I should go buy an AGP 2x/4x video card from NewEgg and see what happens? There's nine of them, all under $50.
--EDIT--
Also of note, I can't run PCI-E in my old KD7-RAID and Athlon XP2600+, so your suggestion wouldn't work.
I should mention that on the KX7-333R that AGP Texture Acceleration does work properly and is enabled in dxdiag. So, therefore, it seems that I got a a strange anomaly with the KD7-RAID.
Anyway, there are other questions I have that need to go into other threads about my Mom's computer.