Where to find VIAs 4-in-1 v.4.17 ???

[Surfwienix]

Where to find VIAs 4-in-1 v.4.17 ???

[MotherDawg]

http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index.htm

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[paulcs]

Don't bother. You're only going to find the latest VIA drivers on their site.

The only place I know where to find them is on the CD for the new Asus VIA motherboards. There are issues with Asus's Apollo Pro 133A board and newer VIA drivers.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[MotherDawg]

Well sorry me, I can't conceive why somebody would be looking for out dated drivers!

Here, I found those:
ftp://ftp.aopen-usa.com/pub/driver/mb/via/4in1419.exe

ftp://ftp.mwmicro.com/pub/bbs/MISC/4in1418a.exe

ftp://ftp.soyo.nl/Drivers/Chipsets/VIA/All_in_One/Old/4in1416.exe

But there are no 4.17 on the web!
If there is, tell me... I'll be able to tramp on some poor souls.

Cya

[paulcs]

I could only find v. 4.20 on Asus's sites in Taiwan, the US, and their European FTP site.

This is really silly, because their hot new VIA motherboard takes a performance nose-dive with the 4.19 and 4.20 drivers.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Sanjuro Makabe]

I think the drivers on the ASUS CD that comes with your mobo is the version 4.17
hope this helps

[paulcs]

Surfwienix, why are you looking for the 4.17 drivers? I know there are some problems with 4.20, but I believe the need for 4.17 is pretty much an Asus issue. Like Motherdawg, I could only find 4.16, 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 on the Internet.

Motherdawg, reviewers have recently discovered that the Asus P3V4X, a hot part these days, takes the most ridiculous speed hit you've ever seen when newer VIA drivers are used. I'm talkin' a loss of close to 50 fps in Quake3. Fifty fps is enough to get people to use outdated drivers. Fifty fps might inspire some people to rob banks, corrupt nuns, kick puppies, steal candy from babies, and use foul language in front of their mothers.

Fifty fps is enough to get the rumor mill running in full gear.

I think the buzz about this has morphed into "the 4.17 drivers are faster" or "the 4.17 fixes stuff the new drivers screwed up" or " the 4.17 drivers cure cancer" amongst non-Asus users.

No one has claimed these drivers fix any issue other than the speed problem with the Asus P3V4X. In fact, some have claimed they slow down other boards.

Like Sanjuro said, if you're thinking of buying the Asus board, they're on the CD. I just checked.

And now we will wait in silence for Kruzin to boot us over to General Hardware.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[paulcs]

Ugh! Kruzin, don't bother. Someone is already asking for the 4.17 drivers on the General Hardware forum.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[mak168]

I running VIA 4-1 Driver 4.19 @my K6-2 400mhz(spare) using DFI P5BV3+ mobo 128mb.

So far, the system is rather stable. But matter of facts, the system is used for CDwritting. So i hv'nt really bench the system for gaming. Anyway, the 2D card is ET6000 4mb MDRAM. Kinda history there. But i can pop in my mismatched Voodoo 2 SLI anytime there. Since i used it for CDwritting and testing various OS (Linux and NT4.0)there. Graphic card selection is not the main moot point.

I can recalled tat VIA did not released 4.17 on their website. I hv upgraded most of the device driver as soon as its released. So i pretty sure u might not find it in the web. No doubt i quite keen abt it. But hellz, its running ok so i dun bother much.

I did not update the VIA IDE busmastering for every updates. I still using Win98 default VIA busmastering driver. Kinda stable here. I encountered CDwritter's software likes WinOnCD could'nt run after after updating the VIA Busmastering driver, lucky there is an Uninstall feature. Else hv to mess wif the registery to get things back in shape

[paulcs]

After seeing that there was considerable interest here about the magical and elusive VIA 4.17 drivers, I checked much of the USENET alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.* hierarchy for posts about these drivers.

Sure enough, there was a thread on the Soyo group. I posted an article about how these drivers appear only to correct an Asus problem, and that it probably wasn't a good idea to install them on a Soyo-based system. I was ignored, someone posted them on an ftp site, and someone claimed they wouldn't even install on his system. Someone else claimed he got them to install and would post benchmarks. Anand claimed they slowed non-Asus systems down.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Zyn]

Check out Matrox Hardware forums, there is a post called Via 4n1 drivers found..

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