What have you experiences with the VIA 4in1 drivers been like?

[Stephen24]

I just recently built my first AMD system and I had a lot of problems. It's a long story but I have the system running right now and I am not using the VIA 4in1s. It seemed as though all my problems when I was initially building it were related to the VIA 4in1s.

I am considering installing them now because after reading many tweaking guides it seems as though the majority of them recommend them. I am just worried that I might have to format again after installing them.

 

[LXi]

The 4-in-1s arent just "recommended", they are not even a consideration. They are, there I say "required" and therefore should be installed without further hesitation.

 

[Renob]

yuo must install the 4in1s its easy. What sorta problems did you have??

 

[Sunner]

Fine and dandy here.
Installed Win2K, installed 4in1's, installed all other drivers, installed everything else, went fine.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Installing the 4in1s are a must particully if you are going to be playing DVDs, you need the 4in1s to enable DMA mode in the system properties (or using the VIA Tool)

However with some older VIA boads the IDE driver does cause problems.

 

[AdamK47]

Hmmm... it always suprises me by the number of people who are affraid to install the 4in1 drivers. Whuts up wit dat?

 

[Moving Target]

Worked great for me! Installed in all 3 of my VIA mobo's with great results.

 

[Stephen24]

I can enable DMA on my devices and I have not installed them yet. In fact, after benchmarking them they are working really well. The first 2 times I installed them I had all sorts of errors so I decided to try without them and I havnt had any problems thus far.

 

[Brian48]

Some folks are apprehensive about the 4in1's because they don't want some of the components in it like the BM drivers, which you don't really need if you have Win98 or Win2k. Other folks, just like to install the components individually, which I recommend, 'cause the installer tool VIA uses can be buggy sometimes.

In any event, you definitely need the IRQ router and the .INF. The AGP driver is only a necessity if you're running an AGP card. PCI display adapters, like the V3's, don't require it.

 

[damien6]

I installed + keep updating them (when ever there's any updated version) in my Win2K machines but to tell you the truth, I don't notice a damn bit of difference.

 

[owensdj]

I have a VIA Apollo Pro133A Chipset mainboard(Tyan S1854 Trinity 400) running Windows 2000 Pro. Do I need to install any of the VIA chipset drivers? It seems like everything has been detected and is working correctly. I don't have an AGP graphics card, but I plan to get one in the future. I don't use any USB devices yet, but the support seems to be there in Win2K already.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Yeh the default windows (98 & later) VIA IDE driver does seem to cause less problems than VIA's own VIA IDE driver on some of the older boards.

But some boards (although not all) need VIA's own IDE driver, before DMA can be enabled in the system properties (or using the VIA tool).

MY AX59Pro board wont enable DMA mode unless VIA's own IDE driver is installed. But my KT7 board will let me enable DMA mode whether I'm using the MS VIA IDE driver or VIA's own IDE driver.

 

[Oyeve]

To be perfectly honest, I see no difference with installing these drivers or not. My systems are win98SE, winME and win2k. I saw absolutely no difference with or without (and I have reinstalled these oses MANY times) and I still cant get AGP4x to work properly. My advice is this. If it aint broke, don't fix it".