Are these drivers necessary for a fresh XP SP2 install?

[tcsenter]

the USB driver is native to XP w/SP2 so you won't need to install that. However there is an update to that vis a vis windows update.

And yet VIA has a USB2.0 companion driver released one year AFTER SP2, for issues discovered AFTER SP2. Windows Update has nothing later than SP2. Hmm...

So it is not correct to say that you have to force those to install by a command switch because they are already checked by default by the installer.

The AGP driver will not install by default on any AGP3.0 chipset running XP patched to SP2, period. In fact, since Hyperion V4.56, the VIA AGP driver will be removed and replaced with UAGP35 from Microsoft on any AGP3.0 system running XP SP2.

Again the benefits of the VIA AGP driver in concert with the embedded UGART3.5 AGP that's in XP w/SP2 is to streamline the core-logic for VIA Northbridges in particular that the default UGART3.5 which was generically designed for all Northbridges (Intel, NVidia, SIS .... The driver has indeed been updated and again the info that TS has is simply incorrect.

The AGP driver for XP/2000 has <u>NOT</u> been updated since version 5.1.0.3442, which has a build date of 07/02/2003. This driver has not changed since it first appeared in VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 V4.53. Further, the VIA AGP driver does not work 'in concert' with the UAGP35 driver. Only one or the other can be installed, not both.

Go ahead, look all you want for a newer AGP driver from VIA. It doesn't exist. VIA has updated the AGP driver for Windows 98/ME, but not for XP/2000, exactly since 07/02/2003.

Likewise the same logic applies to the PATA/IDE drivers to streamline the I/O Buss on VIA chipsets.

I have 10 years of experience with VIA's 'streamlining' IDE, ATAPI (VSD), and Bus Mastering drivers dating back to VP1/2. Anyone with that much experience would tell you VIA's IDE drivers tend to cause more problems than they solve, the default Microsoft provided driver is more stable in most cases, and would only recommend installing the VIA IDE driver <u>IF</u> there is a problem with the default MS driver. I stand by that advice.

You may beg to differ as much as you wish.

[SaphireX]

........wheres your signature tscenter ?

enough said!

Saphire

[tcsenter]

...wheres your signature tscenter ?

I figured most persons would reasonably deduce I had a computer given I am posting to an internet forum. Its awfully hard to do this from a cell phone browser.

But, here you go:

<u>My Sig</u>
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
A monitor
and an OS (no, really, I am using an operating system right now. Seriously!)