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Inconsistent Intel Web sites for driver updates
Intel be consistent!!! In the beginning for me, you could get the latest
drivers by going to your development series website. Then you eliminated that and gave the latest drivers on the specific technology's site (e.g. chipset driver update vs. the chipset driver update on a specific motherboard update site). Then, you either didn't update the motherboard updates (even when an update that applied to that motherboard was on the technology update site) or more lately you started switching which site you updated (except that you always had the latest on the technology site vs. the motherboard sites). Now for the first time, you have updated the chipset software for various motherboard sites but not on the technology site. Now for some illogical reason you have changed your websites various URLs only slightly; only just enough so you can't get there at all. After a lot of searching , I finally found the correct URLs and rebooked them in my browser. Now , I haven't the faintest clue about where to go to find the latest updates. This is plain foolish and totally confusing probably both for your users and yourself. Obviously, no one is in charge of the updates on the various Intel sites (or then again many people are in charge who don't coordinate with each other). As an example, you can go to http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...?ProductID=816 for your chipset updates but the latest is listed as 8.1.1.1010 11/21/2006. However if you go to http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scri...4&submit=Go%21 for the 925xcv Motherboard (not the latest and greatest of your motherboards by any means) site you will find that you have the 8.3.0.1013 3/11/2007 Intel chipset installation software. And the site is not internally consistent: you have the 5.5.0.1035 11/4/2005 Intel RAID storage manager listed, yet on the technology side you have the 6.2.1.1002 version available (the readme says it does apply to the 925xcv chipset). Plus your LAN Marvell Yukon EC Gigabit Ethernet Software is listed as 8.49.2.3 3/20/2006 (it used to be continually updated) but it is severely out of date as the current driver listed on the Marvell website is 8.61.7.3 for Windows XP and Windows 2003 (there are others for Vista). In other words. Intel needs to fire whoever is in charge of its websites and get somebody who either knows what they are doing or gives a damn about internal consistency. |
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