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I just bought a GA-7DXR+ (AMD-761/V686 chipset) board from GigaByte to run my Athlon based RT2500-NLE machine and I'm wondering what VIA drivers to install.
Regarding the GA-7DX (the first version of this board,w/o the Promise controller) Matrox states they installed the 4-in-1 VIA drivers after the AMD AGP Miniport driver (v.5.22 for W2k,v.4.80 for WMe,although they say it's v.5.22 also which I think is wrong).
What's bugging me is that the board installation CD-ROM only comes with two VIA drivers, the PCI IDE Device Driver v.3.01.1 and the VIA Bus master IDE Filter Driver v.1.10. Moreover the "4-in-1" set of drivers also include the VIA AGP VxD driver. Well,shouldn't this driver be for VIA chipsets only (N-Bridge & S-Bridge) and wouldn't it conflict with the AMD driver already installed?
So where do we stand? 4-in-1 or installation CD-ROM? And if the latter should I go to the VIAHardware/VIArena site(s) to download the latest release(s),individually?
Another thing: In the BIOS there's the choice of interrupt mode APIC & PIC. What is I/O APIC? Should I use it instead of PIC (which I don't know what is either)? Under which OS's?
On one of my first installs I noticed that IRQ assignments under Win 2k where up to 19 (IRQ-19?!?!?) WITHOUT the RT2500 card.
Advise on this please,thank you.
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MyPC:
-AOpen HX08 case,300W p/s
-GigaByte GA-7DXR+ (AMD-761/VIA 686B),w/ onboard Creative CT-5880 (SB PCI128) sound chip,Promise PDC20276 RAID ATA-133 controller,NEC D720100AS1 chipset USB 2.0 controller
-Athon 1.2GHz/266,w/ Zalman CNPS5005-Cu cooler
-256MB DDR SDRAM Non-ECC
-Matrox G400 DH/32MB AGP
-Matrox RT2500
-Intel PRO/100 S Desktop network adapter
-Adaptec AHA-7850 SCSI adapter
-LiteOn LTD-163 DVD-ROM (Primay IDE,master)
-LiteOn LTR-24102B CD-RW (Primary IDE,slave)
-IBM Deskstar 60GXP/41.17GB,ATA-100,7200rpm,FAT-32,c:/,d:/,e:/,f:/,g:/ (Secondary IDE,master)
-IBM Deskstar 60GXP/41.17GB,NTFS,h:/,i:/ (Secondary IDE,slave)
-Western Digital Caviar WD1000BB/100GB,ATA-100,7200rpm,NTFS,j:/,k:/ (Promise1,master)
-Western Digital Caviar WD1000BB/100GB,NTFS,l:/,m:/ (Promise2,master)
-Win ME on c:/ (for Web browsing and some gaming),Win 2k Pro on d:/ (for video-editing),Win XP Pro on e:/ (for testing).
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Regarding the GA-7DX (the first version of this board,w/o the Promise controller) Matrox states they installed the 4-in-1 VIA drivers after the AMD AGP Miniport driver (v.5.22 for W2k,v.4.80 for WMe,although they say it's v.5.22 also which I think is wrong).
What's bugging me is that the board installation CD-ROM only comes with two VIA drivers, the PCI IDE Device Driver v.3.01.1 and the VIA Bus master IDE Filter Driver v.1.10. Moreover the "4-in-1" set of drivers also include the VIA AGP VxD driver. Well,shouldn't this driver be for VIA chipsets only (N-Bridge & S-Bridge) and wouldn't it conflict with the AMD driver already installed?
So where do we stand? 4-in-1 or installation CD-ROM? And if the latter should I go to the VIAHardware/VIArena site(s) to download the latest release(s),individually?
Another thing: In the BIOS there's the choice of interrupt mode APIC & PIC. What is I/O APIC? Should I use it instead of PIC (which I don't know what is either)? Under which OS's?
On one of my first installs I noticed that IRQ assignments under Win 2k where up to 19 (IRQ-19?!?!?) WITHOUT the RT2500 card.
Advise on this please,thank you.
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MyPC:
-AOpen HX08 case,300W p/s
-GigaByte GA-7DXR+ (AMD-761/VIA 686B),w/ onboard Creative CT-5880 (SB PCI128) sound chip,Promise PDC20276 RAID ATA-133 controller,NEC D720100AS1 chipset USB 2.0 controller
-Athon 1.2GHz/266,w/ Zalman CNPS5005-Cu cooler
-256MB DDR SDRAM Non-ECC
-Matrox G400 DH/32MB AGP
-Matrox RT2500
-Intel PRO/100 S Desktop network adapter
-Adaptec AHA-7850 SCSI adapter
-LiteOn LTD-163 DVD-ROM (Primay IDE,master)
-LiteOn LTR-24102B CD-RW (Primary IDE,slave)
-IBM Deskstar 60GXP/41.17GB,ATA-100,7200rpm,FAT-32,c:/,d:/,e:/,f:/,g:/ (Secondary IDE,master)
-IBM Deskstar 60GXP/41.17GB,NTFS,h:/,i:/ (Secondary IDE,slave)
-Western Digital Caviar WD1000BB/100GB,ATA-100,7200rpm,NTFS,j:/,k:/ (Promise1,master)
-Western Digital Caviar WD1000BB/100GB,NTFS,l:/,m:/ (Promise2,master)
-Win ME on c:/ (for Web browsing and some gaming),Win 2k Pro on d:/ (for video-editing),Win XP Pro on e:/ (for testing).
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