Via BM/IDE drivers prefered for Win9X?

[NuovoTech]

I got a TBird800 running in a Epox7KXA with ATA66 HHD, ATA33 DVDROM (on Primary), ATA4/DMA CDRW, ATA3/DMA LS-120 (on Secondary). Things seem to run fairly well, except for burning CDs "on-the-fly" with my PlexCDRW 8432, my DVDROM is a new AOpen DVD-1240. In ECDC4.02 I can burn 4X Data, 2X Audio at best. In PlexMgr2000 v1.08 I cannot burn at all using DiscDupe, as it views my DVDROM as 2 slow...

I was wondering if maybe I should use the newest Via BM/IDE drivers(v3.011) instead of my Win95B native ones? Anyone have any opinions bout this? Has anyone ever tried em in Win9X & liked em better? TIA

 

[Pederv]

VIA updates thier drivers evrytime they change something in any of thier chipsets, and sometimes in-between to fix mistakes. Since your opperating system predates the chipset your motherboard is using, by a few years (win95B?). I'd be wondering why you didn't at least install the drivers that came with your motherboard? That may be the fix you need.

 

[NuovoTech]

I did install everything else, but the BM drivers. The buzz at that time was to stay with native W95B drivers, since that was the first version to support UDMA & many thought Via drivers inferior. Guess I'm lookin 4 an update from someone who knows if they now exceed the native ones...in W95B(or W98).

 

[NuovoTech]

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[NuovoTech]

I tried the "VSD BM helper" v3.011 update from VIA that came with v4.28 All-in-one drivers. Not much difference, problems with burning are the same.

Anyone try using the "full" BM VIA miniport drivers for Win9X? IE they replace native Win9X BM drivers with VIA's own...

 

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