VIA 4-in-1 4.31

by Maarten Goldstein, May 14, 2001 6:57am PDT

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Are these the drivers that make a VIA motherboard stable?

May 14, 2001 7:32am PDT

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Are these the drivers that make a VIA motherboard stable? : GravyBoat
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  That will never happen! We all know intel boards are the most stable ;) : MarksmanX
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    Personnaly I hate the Asus A7V. It locks up when you scroll a web page if you have the motherboard set t... : GravyBoat
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      I have an A7V-133 and it is stable unless you try to use the onboard RAID. I hate it all the same thou... : lee majors
      
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      I have the old A7V and it's extremely stable. Most reliable machine I've ever owned, bar none (Intel, A... : Sludgehead
      
      btw I use an SB Live and do large IDE to IDE transfers without incident. : Sludgehead
      
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      Do you run the A7V in optimal or normal mode? Because unless you are doing some kind of trick I dont kno... : GravyBoat
      
      I have an A7V running in optimal just fine, that freeze while scrolling only happened before the AMD reg... : hawkeye
      
      Weird. I run in "optimal" mode...because it just sounds faster to me. =) My specs: Asus A7V (BIOS : Sludgehead
      
      There is a general issue with the AMD Processor with Windows 2000. There is an AGP patch from AMD t... : LOD-Glock
      
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      Um, I hope that temp monitor is too high. It tells me my CPU is at 60c, frequently. : seemlar
      
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      shit. that sounds way too high unless maybe the monitor is one of those little strips that sits right on... : foof
      
      ell - the old A7V is supposed to give between 5 to 10 degrees higher then the abit boards (the temp monit... : Deternal
      
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      Me too. Mine is always around 56-58C, even with a MASSIVE fan on the heatsink and 3 case fans not inclu... : Sludgehead
      
      Won't be a problem with the Athlon 4's. Plus, I'm considering water/gel cooling, myself. : LOD-Glock
- My KA7 has always been stable with the previous drivers... : Stormrider

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Well duh the A7V is stable, it uses the old ATA66 686A southbridge, most of the 686A boards are rock solid. The issues are with the live and the ATA100 686B southbridge.

BTW, the VIA chipsets may be stable most of the time, but they are the PRIME source of pain and tech support at my PC store. NEVER have I had a customer have a problem or ask a question down the road when we set them up with an 815E or 810E chipset.

Hence, we slag AMD and push Intel. Less headache, more margin.

May 14, 2001 11:48am PDT

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Well duh the A7V is stable, it uses the old ATA66 686A southbridge, most of the 686A boards are rock soli... : Ahzman
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  My A7V has an onboard ATA100 controller, not ATA66. : Sludgehead
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    You have the integrated (more lke soldered-on) Promise ATA100 controller. Your integrated VIA controlle... : Ahzman
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      I stand corrected. However, if you've truly NEVER had an Intel customer have ANY trouble then I would s... : Sludgehead
      
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      Oh our Intel customers have had problems, but they have ALL been problems that happen between the keyboa... : Ahzman
      
      I still say it's a creative problem if the only soundcard having problems is a Live. Get a Santa Cruz or... : CharlieManson
      
      Then you'll be glad to know that Nvidia is getting into the AMD chipset market. : LOD-Glock
- Uh, A7V is ATA100, not ATA66. : seemlar

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Can't wait to try these. The last drivers kept locking my pc up. :?(

May 14, 2001 8:20am PDT

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Can't wait to try these. The last drivers kept locking my pc up. :?( : baron calamity
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  You get what you paid for! :) : MarksmanX
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    ahha! Jokes on you. I didn't buy it, it was a gift! So there. :P ;) : baron calamity
    - What a mean way to fuck you over like that! :( : MarksmanX
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    yes I got what I paid for, a rock-solid athlon 1.1 that has had no problems whatsoever since I built it ... : CharlieManson
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      Well good for you! But you don't speak for the masses :) : MarksmanX
      
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      yes I do, the fact is that people will go to forums to bitch about problems but seldom will someone go t... : CharlieManson
      
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      If he wants to needlessly pay more for inferior Intel hardware, let him. People like him keep Intel a... : seemlar
      
      Most of your hardware is designed under Intel motherboard specifications. Don't forget that :) Companies... : MarksmanX
      
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      The fact is...Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, the Hercules Game Theator XP, and the Philips Edge series of ... : LOD-Glock
      
      I have no problem with my SMP system with SBLIVE in Windows 2000. Did you try placing the soundcard in d... : MarksmanX
      
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      Fine, AMD good processor that sucks up a lot of power and produces plenty of heat!AMD processors work be... : MarksmanX
      
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      umm, P4's require a new power supply with a separate 12v cable to the mobo, let's not talk about power u : CharlieManson
      
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      eeewww, I made a mistake I hate your= you're, sory for the inconvenience. : CharlieManson
      
      ugh, I miss my old keyboard with real switches, I could tell when key was depressed with it, these new ... : CharlieManson
      
      It's ok you can make mistakes. I won't judge your intelligence by how you typos :) : MarksmanX
      
      I would assume Windows NT isn't a relic OS :) I haven't seen DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on any of those s... : MarksmanX
      
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      Who gives a fuck if the university or hospitals or colleges use Intel. What matters is us, the perf... : LOD-Glock
      
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      I just wanted to remind you that Intel will be here for a VERRRYYY longtime. AMD could easily go under w... : MarksmanX
      
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      The only good? AMD is saving you about $500 on your next P4 purchase, and giving the Celeron users 10 : Sludgehead
      
      w3rd : LOD-Glock
      
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      Intel P1's and P2's, around 200mhz with 32-64MB of RAM, with Windows NT 4 Workstation with no servic... : LOD-Glock
      
      Some companies don't need to update frequently. If it's working fine for them, they don't need to upgrad... : MarksmanX

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I used to not be able to burn cd's or rip mp3s with 4.29 but now that I installed the 4.31 drivers, it all works.
Thank you VIA.

May 14, 2001 4:52pm PDT

I used to not be able to burn cd's or rip mp3s with 4.29 but now that I installed the 4.31 drivers, it al... : bRAINsick

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Well, I just installed this. Pray for me.

May 14, 2001 2:23pm PDT

Well, I just installed this. Pray for me. : andromeda

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What type of problems do you get with the SBLIVE! and the ATA100 conflict? I have a friend how is having Hard Drive issues right now with an A7V.

May 14, 2001 12:17pm PDT

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- I would get bsod's (win2k) while installing from my cd drive on ide2 to the hd on ide1. Putting the cd ... : Mad Cow

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I have the ABIT KT7-RAID and its rock solid, even with my Duron 600 OC'd to 1000.

May 14, 2001 12:17pm PDT

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I have the ABIT KT7-RAID and its rock solid, even with my Duron 600 OC'd to 1000. : boseefuss
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- i have kt7 non raid and ive never ever had a problem with it i have 4xagp enabled for my radeon 64...... : -=kodiak=-

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Clean install with no problems in W2KSP2. (thnk GOD! after the 4.29's borked my system last time)

May 14, 2001 9:55am PDT

Clean install with no problems in W2KSP2. (thnk GOD! after the 4.29's borked my system last time) : stack

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The description says it has an official 686B southbridge issue patch in it. Sweet. I'll definitely have to try these out later tonight... 1.333 T-Bird + ABIT KT7A + SB Live = fun times and guessing games :|

May 14, 2001 7:02am PDT

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The description says it has an official 686B southbridge issue patch in it. Sweet. I'll definitely have t... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
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  yeah, tell me about it.. rebooting every 30 minutes after hard locks gets annoying : LightningBoy
  - O_O mine isn't nearly that bad.. It's only an occasional thing. You may have other issues. But the... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-

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Heres a direct url to the downloads

http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index_new2.htm#3

May 14, 2001 8:55am PDT

Heres a direct url to the downloads http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index_new2.htm#3 : aggressor

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Just checked www.viatech.com (VIAs USA website), and it lists these as well, no BETA listed anywhere...Safe to say these are final, not beta

May 14, 2001 8:54am PDT

Just checked www.viatech.com (VIAs USA website), and it lists these as well, no BETA listed anywhere...Sa... : aggressor

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Taken from the page: 4.31 FINAL- Now integrates the new official VIA 686B issue patch

Shack calls them BETA, VIAHardware calls them Final...which is lying? =D

May 14, 2001 8:50am PDT

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- I think it's safe to keep this classified as a beta; better safe than sorry. Also, is that "686B issu... : the archvile

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Should i install these?

May 14, 2001 8:29am PDT

Should i install these? : firebone

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Die, Klerck, DIE!

May 14, 2001 6:57am PDT

Die, Klerck, DIE! : BlahBlahBlah

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