Driver for PM800 Motherboard

[rgray0521]

I have a PM800DMS motherboard that I bought from Mach Speed. I went to the VIA website to try and find a video driver, however, when I go to install the driver it comes up with an error of "Windows .net" error or something in those lines. Just wondering if someone could help me locate the driver and maybe the software to go with the video driver. It worked fine with Windows XP but not Vista. Thanks!

Chipset ∗ VIA PM800/PM880/PT880 North Bridge Chipset
VIA VT8237 South Bridge
∗ VGA memory share 16~64MB from system memory
∗ 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 250MHz pixel rate
∗ Resolution up to 1920x1440

[tcsenter]

The Vista driver listed for PM800 is not the correct driver for PM800. I'm not sure what the dealio is with that, but VIA should remove mention of PM800 being supported by that driver.

All S3/VIA UniChrome chipsets are incapable of supporting the minimum specifications required by Vista's WDDM driver model. Therefore, there can never be a real "Vista" driver for any UniChrome graphics, only Windows XP drivers.

Windows XP drivers can be used in Vista but its a solution that provides bare-essential compatibility only. Support for enhanced features will be significantly limited if not totally crippled. The only solution to this is to upgrade the graphics hardware, if supported.

The latest PM800 drivers for Windows XP are here:

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/unich..._169452-04.zip

If the drivers won't install using the Setup.exe auto install, you'll have to update the drivers manually by clicking 'Update Driver' from device properties for UniChrome display adapter in Device Manager, then point Windows to the driver files.