new VIA 4 in 1 drivers (new AGP driver incl)... CAUTION!

[billko]

Be careful about upgrading the IDE drivers - they disabled my second IDE port. Re-installing the new drivers, uninstalling then re-installing the new drivers didn't work. Only re-installing the previous version brought it back to normal.

Bill

[rylan]

Hmm.. didn't have any problem with the new VIA drivers here. works fine with turbo agp (2x mode) and udma 2 for hard drives on both channels

[Homer]

Hey:
Are you guys using the via ide drivers with win98?
I tried an earlier version of those drivers and they really slowed speed of my drives connected to a promise ultra66 card. went back to the windows drivers. Does anybody have promise card and using the newer via ide drivers? What are your benchmarks like?
TIA

[Himself]

No problems here, check your bios, perhaps the drivers are enabling the second port instead.

[billko]

I wasn't inferring that they would work badly on everyone's machine, merely that if you ran into that problem, hopefully this will be useful as a troubleshooting tool.

The BIOS is set up correctly, with an LS-120 as the primary master and an ATAPI CD-ROM as a secondary master. I have no IDE hard drives.

The previous IDE drivers work fine, but the new ones, no matter how many different ways I could think of installing it, caused the secondary channel to become disabled with the exclamation point. (It wasn't even conflicting with anything.)

Weird, huh?

Bill


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