VIA 4in1 Update problem

[Kenwood]

I have an ABIT KT7A that I just updated the chipset drivers to the VIA 4in1 4.4.3 up from 4.3.1. I am running Win98 SE and when I boot I get New Hardware Found box finding the PCI Host Bridge and it installs the driver. Next pops up an Add Hardware Wizard to search for drivers for the VIA Tech Standard CPU to PCI Bridge. I have to cancel this because I dont have a floppy or disk to point it to as it should have been installed with the update. This happens each time I boot and have tried re-installing the older version of the chipset drivers.

Any ideas on how to cure this problem?

 

[jamesbond007]

You can extract the files from the Self-Extracting Installer to a specific directory to your harddrive, like C:\via\ using a program like WinZip or WinRAR. I prefer the later, which you can grab over at http://www.rarsoft.com.

When it prompts you for the files, just point it to that directory and it should be A-O-K. I suppose if you are unable to BROWSE for the directory when it prompts you, you can extract the files to a floppy disk.

Good luck!

 

[HerbalKiller]

I am having a very similar issue. I have Windows XP and am tryign to install 443. The installer file I have doesn't expand into a directory. It just installs the drivers and asks for a reboot. Then when I come back up I get similar messages to Kenwoods. Mine are on the line of the DMA controller though. It asks me where to find the drivers... and I don't know where to point him because it never expanded anything out. happens everytime I reboot and won't go away.

HK

 

[Jeff7]

I just tell WinXP to look for the drivers automatically, and it finds them. I think they're in the Windows/INF folder, or the Windows system folder (windows/system in Win9x, system32 in WinXP).

 

[HerbalKiller]

I pointed it to system32 Dir and it still doesn't find the necessary softare.. any other ideas?

 

[kursplat]

try windows\system32\drivers
good luck

 

[DarknRahl]

I just let it search some irrelevant directory and it seems to find them no matter where you direct it. I run win98se...

 

[Mem]

I just point it to Windows directory and it always find them for my Win98( for the VIA PCI bridge part when it wants the driver after reboot ) .

 

[HerbalKiller]

Well I have Windows XP, and it won't even let me select the Windows Dir. As I said, I select System32 and it doesn't work. I will try adding drivers to that. Mine is some DMA issue, not an IRQ driver.. I am not sure what the problem is ... am I missing sometihgn here. I download the 4in1 zip... it only has one file in it. I run the exe and it auto installs everything and we I reboot it asks me for the drivers!! someone with XP please help.

HK

 

[Mem]

I download the 4in1 zip... it only has one file in it. I run the exe and it auto installs everything and we I reboot it asks me for the drivers!! someone with XP please help.

I`ve XP as well and it installs ok,you could try going to
VIA Arena and if you know what driver it wants you should be able to download the drivers from that link,they also have a good support forum there as well.Btw did you try pointing it to Windows\inf directory?

 

[kursplat]

works on XP here too , no problem. i hate to say it , but somtimes it's just easyer to reinstall windows than to keep beating you head against a strange problem .
good luck