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mSI P35 Neo2FR and SI3112 drivers loaded

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stevvie

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I have just done a FRESH install of windows XP with SP3 slipstreamed into it and noticed that in Non plug and play drivers in the device manager I have a SI3112 driver loaded and it says in the properties that this device is working correctly. Now If I remove the driver and reboot iy just comes back. I was under the impression that the SI3112 was a silicon Image driver like I had on my great NF7S V2 mobo. When I click on driver details it say's it is indeed from silicon image and it's version 1.3.68.0. Has anybody else with this MOBO got this driver loaded ?
 
Come on somebody with this mobo must be able to look in non Plug and play drivers in device manager and see if they have a SI3112 driver loaded and the device running.

Thanks
 
I'm using Vista, cant see anything that looks Silicon Image, only ICH9 under ATA controllers. Perhaps XP doesn't have ICH9 and is just loading SI3112 as compatible.

The Neo2-FR uses ICH9R & Marvell 88SE6111 chips for SATA, FWIW.
 
Cheers gillbot I removed the device and all registry entried to si3112 and silicon image. And removed sil3112.sys/inf/cat/pnf fron all the windows folders and still booted fine. Styrange that XP seemed top install it though.
 
That driver is for your ide hard drive to sata converter module. It should work okay without the driver as the Silicon Image module will just work in "compatibility" mode. I would recommend putting that driver back in to prevent any future disk i/o issues. It may also speed up your access times.
 
Disk speeds are identical with and without the driver. And the IDE2Sata converter is a driverless piece of hardware.
 
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