xp pro

hi everyone long time reader first time poster(this being the first prob i aint been able to resolve reading other posts)
anyway after being a relative novice then using this site and others became a bit of a geek and knew my old compaq with windows me inside out decided to build my own and have booted win xp pro with sp1 and all other updates installed my problem is installing the via 4-1 drivers i can run the setup reboot then nothing just carry on with the drivers from xp, when i first installed chipset drivers after building pc i ran setup and just assumed they installed but if i run normal installation i dont get the option to uninstall asa they arent there ive tried many things yet nothing i had similar probs with nvidia detonators but after reding stuff here and using driver cleaner i got that sussed but vias are a no go any help would be gratefully accepted sorry this seems live a novel just trying to give much info as possible
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ATHLON XP 2400 266fsb
MSI KTV4
512 PC 2700ram 333fsb
MAXTOR DIAMOND PLUS 80GB 8 mb cache
ASUS GEFORCE 4TI 4200 8x agp
LIAN LI 601 CASE with a few mods done

 

You can't uninstall the VIA drivers. I've built 3 PCs in the last month using the same motherboard and after the first one never used the setup CD. According to the vendor it's a problem with the IRQ but I just reinstalled XP Pro sans VIA drivers. Worked fine without them.

 

Well, yes and no. Try playing an OpenGL game without them. Mr. Gates wants all gamemakers to use DirectX, so his verson of VIA support doesn't include support for the competition. There are some other things that won't work as well either. WinXP has far better support for VIA chipsets than earlier versions of Windows, but very much not perfect. Install the VIA drivers.

 

thanxs guys for your replys i may have confused some of you but it was late and i had been chillin ;-)
anyway problem is i want to install 4in1s but after setup i reboot and they are not there maybe just my motherboard then, still pc is running pretty smooth without them so if i cant install them its not the end of the world

 

How do you know they are not there..?
they do not create a program group or anything like that..

it will show upp in your hardware profile, but heck I can't even remember how to find the version..

If you ran the install with no errors, everything rebooted fine,. then they are there

 

thanx for response exeter but when i used to install them on me when it rebooted i used to screens showing windows updating hardware etc which i dont get in xp or is that normal?
also if i rerun the setup in normal mode i dont get the option to uninstall suggesting they didnt install properly
is there anywhere specific in device manager i should be looking as everyone ive searched shows nothing relating to the 4in1s just windows drivers
any help much appreciated

 

Open Device Manager, expand System Devices, and toward the bottom you should see VIA CPU to AGP controller, VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge, and VIA Tech CPU to PCI Bridge. Expand Universal Serial Bus Controllers and you should see a string of VIA host controllers. All listed as VIA in Properties, not "standard blah blah" which Windows uses. You don't see a new install screen on reboot, and they don't put an uninstall routine in Add Remove Programs, or a Start Menu group. If you ever DO want to uninstall them, say, to install an older version, run the install program a second time, and uninstall is an option for each function. (Upgrading to newer ones doesn't reaquire uninstalling, the install routine works over the old one.) Confusing, but that's how they do it.

 

thanx gt checked that and they do say via so guess its just the fact iused to get a hardware update on reboot in me and i aint getting one in xp
funny though i used to love millenium thought it was great but two weeks of xp pro and not one crash yet i aint never going back

 

The NT kernel has always been superior to Win9x, just not as friendly to games. XP is great. There are still a few things that can crash it, mostly buggy games, but it's way better than 9x.