Question about Via 4in1 installation

coomarlin

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I'm building a new 1.1ghz athlon system. At what point during the install process do I add the 4 in 1 drivers from Via. The motherboard is a MSI K7t-Pro2a. Do I do it before I add the video card drivers and other peripherals, or do I do it imediately after I load windows '98. Thanks.
 

RM1

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It is recommended to install the VIA drivers after WIn98. Exception is that if u have a SB Live! I had to install SB Live drivers first, disable SB Emulation, and then install VIA drivers
 

tjll11a

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Why after sblive i have sblive gamer 5.1 and i don't have too. I just install 4 in 1 drivers after OS
 

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Lifer
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Normally I would install them first,btw my own MSI K7T PRO board driver wise, was Via 4 in 1 drivers first then the the rest afterwards, I also have a SBlive which did not give me any problems being installed later on after the Via drivers.

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Lifer
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To disable SB16 emulation,go to Device manager through Control panel,& then systems icon, select Creative Miscellaneous devices then select SB16 Emulation next on the General tab select "disable in this hardware profile" at bottom & you are done.

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bluesky

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I didn't installed this via driver, but I didn't have any problem for 3+ weeks. Do all systems need this driver, or is it just for some specific uses?
I have k7t pro 2a board, and I didn't install sb live yet, still waiting to get delivered.
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Lifer
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bluesky,the Via 4 in 1 drivers in general improve overall stability,the Via AGP driver(part of the 4 in 1 drivers) improves stability in 3D games & stops most people getting problems running 3d games in general.

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bluesky

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Mem, thanks.
So, if I don't play any games, I don't have to install the driver, do I?
 

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Lifer
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Well I normally would install them anyway, but if you are happy with your system on stability & performance then it`s up to you,look at it this way MSI,ASUS etc don`t supply the Via drivers on CD with the motherboard for nothing .

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PlunX

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Make sure that your video card drivers -are not- installed when you install the Via drivers.. Also, choose to install the AGP VxD driver in "standard" mode as opposed to "turbo" mode.. This could cause lock-ups in games and even in Windows.
 

bluesky

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What! Is it on the cd.
Anybody tell me the file name of the via driver. I'd like to check it my system if I already installed it.
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Lifer
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Should be something like VIA chipset drivers or VIA service pack 4.24 or 4.25,or even 4.19 which are old, the 4.25a are the latest official drivers,you can also get them from here

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John

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I just got my 1GHz @ 1.4GHZ Tbird setup on my MSI K7T Pro2. I have a Promise FastTrack 100 raid card and did a clean install on my twin 30GB 75GXP's in raid0. Win2K installed fine, and I chose to install Liveware! 3 first, then the 4.26 4-in-1's. I recommend that you do NOT install the IDE Busmaster driver because it will detect your IDE drives as SCSI. I could not play DVD movies till I uninstalled it from add/remove programs and rebooted.
 

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Lifer
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John, the 4.26 drivers cause that problem(they are beta), the Via 4 in 1 drivers 4.25 drivers work fine.

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John

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Exactly, and I now had to reformat because my plextor chooses to make coasters w/ NERO &amp; Adaptec since I installed that IDE busmaster driver.

Avoid it like the plague !
 

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Lifer
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LOL...that`s probably why I don`t use beta drivers unless there is no choice.
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John, I thought it gave you the option of removing the drivers during the installation process?
 

tjll11a

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JOhn I have the plextor 12/10/32a and i installed the via bus master drivers. Also the dmatools. And it seems to work fine. Plex is set master all by itself
 

tjll11a

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I install the new via 4in1 drivers and i was wondering why they never intall the bus master drivers. I had to download those drivers seprately off via web sight and install them.

I was under the impression that when you hit setup its supposed to install everything.

P.s
Sorry about my spelling