VIA 4-in-1 drivers installation procedures for WinXP

[ahsia]

I just tried to installed the VIA 4-in-1 drivers on my Windows XP system, and my system would not boot up. I installed them in safe mode, rebooted, and after the first Windows XP screen shows up, my system does nothing but display a blank screen. I remember there were procedures when installing these drivers, how do I install these drivers for WinXP?

 

[John]

XP has native support for them already. If you want to install new ones, all you do is run setup.

 

[LanEvoVI]

Yah my comp runs great w/o ever touching that 4-in-1 driver cd that came w/ my mobo (I run WinXP also).

 

[RalfHutter]

Back in the day, when I had an AMD system, I never installed any 4-in-1's. Both Win2000 and WinXP has native support for them. There seems to be too many issues with installing the "latest and greatest" 4-in-1 drivers. I always had 100% luck with the native drivers.

My $0.02.

 

[Mem]

Taken from VIAHardware,


<< Notes:

Do not update 4-1 drivers unless you are experiencing problems.

Microsoft Windows XP has native XP support and 4-1 drivers usually are not needed.

Please read over the VIA Driver Installation Guide before installing. >>




Guide is
here ,you will see it only updates the INF files for XP,I did try the latest VIA agp 4.10 driver in my WinXP and it`s fine on stability etc,also gave me a small increase in speed.

 

[Maggotry]

Same here. Never used 4in1's in XP. Been running XP for 2 months with no problems.

 

[ezdriver]

Out of curiousity, how and where do I find out what version of the 4-in-1's I have installed? Thanks.

 

[ahsia]

Thank god!

I would do anything not to have to deal with those VIA 4-in-1 drivers.

My system is running great without them anyways.....