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Via drivers and ATAPI.SYS BSOD
Windows 2000 server sp4 w/all hotfixes.
Added Promise TX133, three HD on this. P3V4X Bios 1003 1128M PC133 RAM SB Ensonique PCI 3Com 3c905X rev.b nVidia MX440-SEN1 64MB DDR 128 MB USB drive. Toshiba CDRom Samsung Combo drive DVD/CDRW I am running a Promise TX133 card as my main IDE channels with boot SCSI first., and boot harddrive on this. I still use the onboard IDE (Via) for CD Roms, DVD, etc. I have recently added the DVD Combo drive burner. I am not sure why, but when I update the VIA drivers using their installer, I get a BSOD on ATAPI.SYS. The system then fails to boot giving an error on VIAAGP1.SYS. Countless reboots, still no boot. Last known doesn't boot either. Luckly I am using FAT32 and have older copies of VIAAGP1.SYS on the drive. Each time this happens, I can replace the VIAAGP1.SYS with an old copy and boot. Zonealarm gets coorupt, as it always does on a BSOD, so I uninstall this. I go into devices and VIA IDE is not enabled and is in compatibility mode. I take the latest greatest VIA drivers setup and unextract it. I point the VIA IDE to the correct path and it installs. I update the VIA AGP drivers using this method to the latest greatest, and it updates. Any ideas why I cannot use the VIA Installers anymore? Edwin Davidson |
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