Has anyone tried the new Via 4in1v4.21?

[JohnT]

I see Via has released a v4.21 of their 4in1 drivers - anyone tried these with a G400Max?

JohnT

[Joel]

Where did you find those?

Joel

[paulcs]

They're not on the drivers page. And I couldn't help notice they removed the new 4.02 AGP driver and replaced it with Ver. 4.00.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[JohnT]

They are at:
ftp://ftp.via.com.tw/temp/VT5191B/

JohnT

[anid]

I'd heard that they were on the driver page earlier - either I was misinformed, they pulled them already, or they meant on the FTP server. If they have the 4.02 AGP driver packaged with it, it does work a little better on KX133 (KA7) with the G400 than the 4.0 driver did. I still think the 3.59 driver is the best one for the MVP3 with G200 though. And I also still think that everything else in the 4n1 packs are crap...

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[JohnT]

I expanded the exe file and the AGP driver is the 4.02 version. Also, the inf files have been added from v4.20. Otherwise, the subdirectories look the same. In the main directory, however, most of the files have newer dates, so I have no idea what's been changed, if anything, from a functional standpoint.

JohnT

[Joel]

I tried the FTP site but it said 'page not found'. Oh well it might just be the 4.20 driver pack with the 4.02 AGP drivers.

Joel

[paulcs]

HardOCP has a link to VIA's FTP site, and there appears to be something odd going on. Here's the link:

ftp://ftp.via.com.tw/temp/VT5191B/

I don't know how long this will stay up, as it doesn't look like VIA's corporate style.

One of the folders is called "HardOCP Lied! Where they at!"

A second directory is called "Yea I need some gd support for my kx133."

A third is called "Yea I want to dl those."

They all appear to be empty.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[paulcs]

I wonder if someone at VIA was having fun or if this was sabotage.

Kyle should be flattered.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[dZeus]

Probably that folder on the ftp site had read/write access, nothing special about that, is there?

[paulcs]

Personally, I don't like the idea of anyone outside of VIA having access to VIA's FTP site. While I chuckled a bit, it still made a confusing situation more confusing. There were over ten empty directories and no drivers to be found.

A lot of people have been wondering what exactly has been going on with VIA lately. The previous AGP driver broke more things than it fixed for a lot of people with new chipsets. Many people with new KX133 motherboards have an extremely limited upgrade path. I've *heard* that they posted the new Windows 9X as a W2K driver. They didn't post the new 4in1 set when they said they would. Then they went up for a brief period of time this week, only to be replaced by a couple of jokes at HardOCP's and KX133-users' expense.

It just seems really unprofessional to me, and it doesn't inspire confidence in new users.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[paulcs]

The HardOCP directory has been removed. Now there's a directory called "I Hump Monkeys."

And a Quicktime movie file called "One Question.mov"

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net