Why won't my VIA bus master IDE install?

[Sniper82]

I can't find a driver my VIA bus master IDE decide likes. Its built on my Asus A7M266 mobo. It pops up everytime I restart my PC. I have WinXP Pro and have tried latest 4in1's can't find a IDE driver on AMD's site for the AMD-761 chipset.

Any ideas?

 

[Pariah]

Use the default MS driver that comes with Windows.

 

[bozo1]

That motherboard has an AMD 761 northbridge and Via Southbridge. You want to install the AMD AGP driver (XP has it built-in and I don't believe AMD has released a later one) and the Via 4-in-1 drivers WITHOUT the AGP driver.

or like Pariah said, just use the built-in ones that come with XP.

 

[busmaster11]

Originally posted by: bozo1
That motherboard has an AMD 761 northbridge and Via Southbridge. You want to install the AMD AGP driver (XP has it built-in and I don't believe AMD has released a later one) and the Via 4-in-1 drivers WITHOUT the AGP driver.

or like Pariah said, just use the built-in ones that come with XP.

uuggghhh....

VIA is suck...

 

[Mem]

It pops up everytime I restart my PC. I have WinXP Pro and have tried latest 4in1's can't find a IDE driver on AMD's site for the AMD-761 chipset.

The way I install it on my VIA/XP combo is when you install the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers,it does not install the latest VIA IDE driver by default,what I did was go to Control Panel then System icon then Device Manager,after that go to the "IDE ATA Controllers" section then select "VIA IDE Bus master there ,right click on it with your mouse and select "update driver",XP will do an auto search and find the newest VIA IDE Bus Master driver and install it .

 

[Sniper82]

I've tried the auto search for driver with no luck. It says cannot find any drivers for device or something.

 

[Mem]

You tried pointing it to the Windows directory? Try c:\windows\inf or system32 folder.

 

[Sniper82]

havent tried inf but have tried system32.

 

[Mem]

Forget what I said here since it`s still an exe.file still even unzipped, you could try downloading the driver on it`s own from

here .

 

[Sniper82]

still says cannot find hardware driver or something. Pointed it to XP folder and inf folder(in windows).

 

[AtomicDude512]

Dont mix two chipset drivers! Use the driver supplied from the manufacturer. Besides, with Bus Mastering installed and enabled in BIOS my PCMark HHD scores went from 85x to 1111. Impressive.

 

[Sniper82]

Asus doesnt have a stand alone driver they only have 4in1's

I know theres something fishy going on because I don't have any other onboard IDE device just have 2 IDE slots.

 

[AtomicDude512]

They really dont? That is unbelievable.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ^Sniper^
I've tried the auto search for driver with no luck. It says cannot find any drivers for device or something.

Ok, what I did to update my IDE drivers:
Download the EXE file from VIA.
Open it with Winzip and extract all files to a temporary directory
Go to the VIA Bus Master IDE controller, hit the Update Driver option.
Install from list or specific location
Don't search, I will chose the driver to install
Have Disk
Direct it to the IDEWinXP directory in the temporary directory.

(Yeah, maybe those instructions weren't the clearest in the world; should be enough for an experienced PC user though. Hopefully anyway.)