Incompatabilities with chipsets

[Condor Beedee]

I have an older MSI Pro2A board with a Via chipset running on Win XP pro. I installed Nero's InCD and started getting blue screens. When I checked their website, they said that VIA chipsets were not supported!

Does anyone else run into these problems? I've had what seems an enormous amount of problems with my computer, and it seems to me that it stems from using the VIA chipsets. I upgrade the bios and drivers all the time, but it doesn't seem to help. The last problem I discovered was that my IDE drivers were setting everything to PIO mode 1. Needless to say my machine seemed slower than a dog. Anyhow, back to the subject. Does anyone else have compatibility issues with their chipsets? Are Intel chipsets the best for compatibility? For my next machine, I want a motherboard and processor combo that WORKS! Doesn't have to scream speed, doesn't need to be the cheapest (although cheap is good), it just needs to work with everything and be hassle free.

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Here's a better run down on my system:
MSI 6330 motherboard
AMD Athalon 1.3 mhz processor
SDRAM 133mhz 256K Corsair
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer Soundcard
GeForce3 Ti 200 graphics card
IBM Deskstar 40gig drive with 8gig Maxtor cheapo for backup purposes.
Two CD Rom Burners on second IDE channel
Not overclocked.

Thanks for input.

Condor Beedee

 

[Peter]

Nah, that's just FUD. Application software like InCD doesn't even get access to the chipset hardware. Your system has a hardware or driver related problem that is merely triggered by that application. Update the board's BIOS, give it the latest chipset driver set (www.viaarena.com), run a RAM test (www.memtest86.com), check your power supply unit.

 

[Vette73]

Nero will work with VIA.

But make sure the Nero version you have is compatability with Win XP. Get the newwest update.