Via 4in1 problems with burner

[mitaiwan82]

Sup ya'll
This is a problem I've had for a while now (but was too lazy to do anything about it =P) I have a Win2k Pro system w/ 2 HDDs, 1 CD-rom, and my plextor burner(12/10/32A). Whenever I installed the VIA IDE bus drivers, it would always work fine on my system except when I try to burn somthing in Nero it would give me an SCSI/IDE error. So the burner only works on the generic Microshaft IDE drivers. I've tried most of the official 4in1 releases upto 4.28 but ended up w/ the same results. I want to install the VIA bus drivers so I can get the ATA100 support for my KT133A mobo, but if I do that the burner won't exactly work...Wondering if any of you guys have any suggestions or solutions to this minor problem? thanks!

PS the rest of my system specs are in the signature so feel free to check that out
PSS what does IMHO stand for anyways?

 

[Aves]

VIA 4-In-1 4.29 Final is now available

According to ViaHardware.com

4.29 Final - New IDE driver, now labled 1.04 for Win2K.
Solves SCSI detection issues, and improves burner support under Win2K.
Also, new INF file (1.20a) is included.

Click here to download 4.29 Final


P.S. IMHO - In my humble opinion

 

[Joemonkey]

i uninstalled the entire 4 in 1 update to fix this, and waited for 4.29 to come out, works fine w/ 4.29

 

[iNo712]

For those that have the new 4.29's installed, do the some of the ide devices still show up as scsi? I remember when I installed via's ide bus drivers, some of the ide devices were reported as scsi and it screwed up my system.

oops! nevermind, just saw in another thread that they still show up as ide! 😱 🙂

 

[mitaiwan82]

yeah it still showed the primary and secondary IDE's under Hardware Manager...guess i'll give it a shot for a while and if it's bad like the others i'll just uninstall it...thanks for the help!

 

[KBtn]

Microsoft is releasing Service Pack 2 sometime at the end of this month. I would WAIT before trying any of the VIA drivers because the SP2 is SUPPOSED to have a fix for this issue, but its compatibality with theVIA drivers is unknown. I am runningthe basic Microsoft drivers(no VIA drivers at all) and everything works fine(i know the VIA drivers would tweaks a little more performance out of the system, BUT I would rather not have to reinstall Win2k again if the SP2 causes conflict with the VIA drivers.)