KT7A-Raid & WinXP & Via 4-in-1????

[CRParker]

Hi - I have a KT7A-Raid mb, with 4 hard drives hooked up to it. I'm not using the raid functionality, but I do have 2 drives hooked up as normal IDE on the raid controller.

Athlon XP 1700 processor, 512meg PC133 ram, no overclocking


Here's the problem - Under Windows 2000, anytime I put a significant load on the PC (such as the SETI app), it would blue screen. Sometimes it happened at random while I was using the PC. I reformatted, and reinstalled (it had been about 18 months anyhow, and it was time), and the problems continued. I should mention that I always installed the VIA drivers, latest versions.

Since I was at wits end, I decided to try WinXP Pro. Much to my surprise the system is now rock solid. However I haven't installed ANY drivers (except Matrox video), so everything is using the default stuff that comes with WinXP.

Am I really missing anything by not using the VIA drivers? I can live with a small performance loss, as long as this thing stays stable. I'm afraid to install the VIA stuff since everything is working now.

Opinions?

Thanks!

 

[Vette73]

You already have some 4in1's installed. they come with Win XP.

If you like you can always uninstall the 4in1's. So try the newwest ones and if any problems come up then just use the go back feature of win XP.

I installed the newwest 4in1's when I had a Via board and Win XP, no problems. You may have had other issues that Win XP just cleared up?