No VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!

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thewizard-oz - 05 Jul 2006 19:16 GMT

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!

Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all
non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that
out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.

Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it
finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I
had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI
Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but
without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or
CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for
them.

Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!

What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if
half of my hardware cannot be installed??

Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised
basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.

If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP
Pro until the drivers are available.

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Chris S - 05 Jul 2006 20:01 GMT

Every XP driver I needed was installed fine in Vista-64bit and 32-bit. You do
have to disable Vista's Driver Signing in 64-bit Vista. To do this create a
shortcut on your desktop for the command line. Once you have done that right
click on the short cut and click "run as administrator" and type this line in
- bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON - then hit return.

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> NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
>
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> If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP
> Pro until the drivers are available.

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thewizard-oz - 28 Aug 2006 06:51 GMT

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they
were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard
is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that
was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and
not working.

There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to
reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files -
which I found impossible.

> Every XP driver I needed was installed fine in Vista-64bit and 32-bit. You do
> have to disable Vista's Driver Signing in 64-bit Vista. To do this create a
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> > If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP
> > Pro until the drivers are available.

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Rick - 05 Jul 2006 20:29 GMT

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have
installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA
800Pro chips and never needed any additional
drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.

What board do you have that you claim VIA
drivers for it?

> NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
>
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP
> Pro until the drivers are available.

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thewizard-oz - 31 Aug 2006 03:46 GMT

> There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have
> installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA
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> > If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP
> > Pro until the drivers are available.

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