Error Installing VIA/S3 Unichrome II KM400 driver XPPro Asus A7V8X-MX SE

In article ,
lid says...

We have just acquired two new PCs fitted with the Asus A7V8X-MX SE
motherboard with integrated VIA/S3 Unichrome II KM400 graphics adaptor.

The computers were supplied with Windows XP Home edition preinstalled by
the OEM, which we upgraded by installing XP Pro over the top. During the
installation we were asked to provide the drivers for the graphics
adapter. The adapter installation from the CD supplied by ASUS failed,
and a separately downloaded set of drivers from ASUS's website also
failed to install. These installations used the setup installer included
with VIA's drivers.

We also tried the Add New Hardware wizard to install, this also failed
with a Code 10 could not start device error.

The user was logged into the local machine as Administrator with full
unrestricted access to the machine at the time.

It has been suggested that custom software installed by the OEM might
have blocked the installation. We have a separate site license for XP Pro
full edition and are going to try installing that before returning the
computers to the OEM for warrantied remedy.

Below are the results of the installation from the installer's own log
files as well as the setupapi log entries.

=========== S3SETUP LOG FILE - Started at 19:07:34 on 5-13-2004
===========
S3Setup v1.00.09-CL (1.01.16) on Win XP
bAllowReboot: TRUE
bSilentReboot: TRUE
bPromptReboot: TRUE
bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE
bDisableMenuAnim: TRUE
bDisableMenuShadow: TRUE
VendorID to find:1106
INF File Located at: X:\drivers\ASUS\A7v8x-mx se\via
km400\km400_window_035\W2K&XP\Viagfxk.inf
Found - ven:1106 dev:7205 ss_dev:8118 ss_ven:1043 rev:01 bus:01 devnum:00
func:00 (inVGA=1)
Enumerating Display class devices...
Display #0 has DevInst=00001AF8
Instance=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_80ED1043&REV _01\4&1FEB96E4&0&000
8.
Display #1 has DevInst=00001B7C
Instance=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV _01\4&1FEB96E4&0&000
8.
Found matching display.
No more displays.
Found
InstID=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_0 1\4&1FEB96E4&0&0008.
Found Mfg line: "VIA.Mfg".
Description="%viagfx.DeviceDesc0% = viagfx, PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205".
'DriverVer' is 6.14.10.0035, 'DriverDate' is 06/07/2003.
Calling UpdateDriver... with PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_01
and INF path at X:\drivers\ASUS\A7v8x-mx se\via
km400\km400_window_035\W2K&XP\Viagfxk.inf
Started Timer window in background.
Doing copy logging.
Finished with copy logging.
UpdateDriver forced install
(PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_01) failed--536870389.
UpdateDriver failed, returned -536870389. Cannot install.
DestroyTimerWindow OK, but no timer dialog action occurred.
- Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log
in your Windows directory for more details.

[2004/05/13 19:31:55 512.546 Driver Install]
#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): *pnp0501
#-198 Command line processed: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe"
shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\hdwwiz.cpl",Add Hardware
#I393 Modified INF cache "C:\WINDOWS\inf\INFCACHE.1".
#I022 Found "*PNP0501" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\msports.inf; Device:
"Communications Port"; Driver: "Communications Port"; Provider:
"Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard port types)"; Section name: "ComPort".
#I023 Actual install section: [ComPort.NT]. Rank: 0x00001000. Effective
driver date: 07/01/2001.
#I022 Found "*PNP0501" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\msports.inf; Device:
"Communications Port"; Driver: "Communications Port"; Provider:
"Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard port types)"; Section name: "ComPort".
#I023 Actual install section: [ComPort.NT]. Rank: 0x00000000. Effective
driver date: 07/01/2001.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#I063 Selected driver installs from section [ComPort] in
"c:\windows\inf\msports.inf".
#I320 Class GUID of device remains: {4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-
08002BE10318}.
#I060 Set selected driver.
#I058 Selected best compatible driver.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTERDEVICE.
#I289 Removing device "ROOT\*PNP0501\1_0_17_0_0_0".
#I048 Device removed.
#W154 Class installer failed. Error 0xe0000202: An existing device was
found that is a duplicate of the device being manually installed.

[2004/05/13 19:32:10 512.582 Driver Install]
#-124 Doing copy-only install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000".
#-198 Command line processed: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe"
shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\hdwwiz.cpl",Add Hardware
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTER_COINSTALLERS.
#I056 Coinstallers registered.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLINTERFACES.
#-011 Installing section [viagfx.Interfaces] from
"c:\windows\inf\oem1.inf".
#I054 Interfaces installed.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#I123 Doing full install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000".
#I163 Device not started: Device has problem: 0x0a: CM_PROB_FAILED_START.
#I121 Device install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000" finished successfully.

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In article , Patrick
Dunford wrote:

In article ,
lid says...

We have just acquired two new PCs fitted with the Asus A7V8X-MX SE
motherboard with integrated VIA/S3 Unichrome II KM400 graphics adaptor.

The computers were supplied with Windows XP Home edition preinstalled by
the OEM, which we upgraded by installing XP Pro over the top. During the
installation we were asked to provide the drivers for the graphics
adapter. The adapter installation from the CD supplied by ASUS failed,
and a separately downloaded set of drivers from ASUS's website also
failed to install. These installations used the setup installer included
with VIA's drivers.

We also tried the Add New Hardware wizard to install, this also failed
with a Code 10 could not start device error.

The user was logged into the local machine as Administrator with full
unrestricted access to the machine at the time.

It has been suggested that custom software installed by the OEM might
have blocked the installation. We have a separate site license for XP Pro
full edition and are going to try installing that before returning the
computers to the OEM for warrantied remedy.

Below are the results of the installation from the installer's own log
files as well as the setupapi log entries.

=========== S3SETUP LOG FILE - Started at 19:07:34 on 5-13-2004
===========
S3Setup v1.00.09-CL (1.01.16) on Win XP
bAllowReboot: TRUE
bSilentReboot: TRUE
bPromptReboot: TRUE
bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE
bDisableMenuAnim: TRUE
bDisableMenuShadow: TRUE
VendorID to find:1106
INF File Located at: X:\drivers\ASUS\A7v8x-mx se\via
km400\km400_window_035\W2K&XP\Viagfxk.inf
Found - ven:1106 dev:7205 ss_dev:8118 ss_ven:1043 rev:01 bus:01 devnum:00
func:00 (inVGA=1)
Enumerating Display class devices...
Display #0 has DevInst=00001AF8
Instance=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_80ED1043&REV _01\4&1FEB96E4&0&000
8.
Display #1 has DevInst=00001B7C
Instance=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV _01\4&1FEB96E4&0&000
8.
Found matching display.
No more displays.
Found
InstID=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_0 1\4&1FEB96E4&0&0008.
Found Mfg line: "VIA.Mfg".
Description="%viagfx.DeviceDesc0% = viagfx, PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205".
'DriverVer' is 6.14.10.0035, 'DriverDate' is 06/07/2003.
Calling UpdateDriver... with PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_01
and INF path at X:\drivers\ASUS\A7v8x-mx se\via
km400\km400_window_035\W2K&XP\Viagfxk.inf
Started Timer window in background.
Doing copy logging.
Finished with copy logging.
UpdateDriver forced install
(PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7205&SUBSYS_81181043&REV_01) failed--536870389.
UpdateDriver failed, returned -536870389. Cannot install.
DestroyTimerWindow OK, but no timer dialog action occurred.
- Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log
in your Windows directory for more details.

[2004/05/13 19:31:55 512.546 Driver Install]
#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): *pnp0501
#-198 Command line processed: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe"
shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\hdwwiz.cpl",Add Hardware
#I393 Modified INF cache "C:\WINDOWS\inf\INFCACHE.1".
#I022 Found "*PNP0501" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\msports.inf; Device:
"Communications Port"; Driver: "Communications Port"; Provider:
"Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard port types)"; Section name: "ComPort".
#I023 Actual install section: [ComPort.NT]. Rank: 0x00001000. Effective
driver date: 07/01/2001.
#I022 Found "*PNP0501" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\msports.inf; Device:
"Communications Port"; Driver: "Communications Port"; Provider:
"Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard port types)"; Section name: "ComPort".
#I023 Actual install section: [ComPort.NT]. Rank: 0x00000000. Effective
driver date: 07/01/2001.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#I063 Selected driver installs from section [ComPort] in
"c:\windows\inf\msports.inf".
#I320 Class GUID of device remains: {4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-
08002BE10318}.
#I060 Set selected driver.
#I058 Selected best compatible driver.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTERDEVICE.
#I289 Removing device "ROOT\*PNP0501\1_0_17_0_0_0".
#I048 Device removed.
#W154 Class installer failed. Error 0xe0000202: An existing device was
found that is a duplicate of the device being manually installed.

[2004/05/13 19:32:10 512.582 Driver Install]
#-124 Doing copy-only install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000".
#-198 Command line processed: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe"
shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\hdwwiz.cpl",Add Hardware
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTER_COINSTALLERS.
#I056 Coinstallers registered.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLINTERFACES.
#-011 Installing section [viagfx.Interfaces] from
"c:\windows\inf\oem1.inf".
#I054 Interfaces installed.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#I123 Doing full install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000".
#I163 Device not started: Device has problem: 0x0a: CM_PROB_FAILED_START.
#I121 Device install of "ROOT\DISPLAY\0000" finished successfully.

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And what happens if you uninstall whatever driver is currently there,
before attempting the new install ?

I don't think this is a "the data is invalid" type problem.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...ust.ihug.co.nz

That involves a permission bit in the registry for each PCI device,
and the permission bit has to be set to "Full Control" for a
driver update to work.

Also, have you gone to Viaarena.com , to try to get the latest
version of the installer ? The VEN_1106&DEV_7205 seem to match
the numbers in he

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=70
http://downloads.viaarena.com/driver...Shld_Logod.zip

Paul