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Intel Atom Co-processor
I was given a Zotak mini-PC with Win7 some time ago and just upgraded it
to Win10 In device manager no driver is present for the co-processor. (as best as I recall there were no drivers missing in Win7) So far I have not been able to find a driver either using the Windows search function or from the Intel website. Machine seems to work OK... What does this co-processor do? Is a driver really needed? |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
philo wrote:
I was given a Zotak mini-PC with Win7 some time ago and just upgraded it to Win10 In device manager no driver is present for the co-processor. (as best as I recall there were no drivers missing in Win7) So far I have not been able to find a driver either using the Windows search function or from the Intel website. Machine seems to work OK... What does this co-processor do? Is a driver really needed? When you use Device Manager, do Properties on the unknown item, can you get a HardwareID and a VEN/DEV or VID/PID ? As that's how you'd track down an unknown. This kinda sounds like your symptom, so it could be the ION GPU. https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...t-is-missing-/ There were a couple of IONs. There is another one, which is an "appendage" and connects via a PCI Express x1 lane, and it might not be as nice as this one. This ION has better connectivity. https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mother...erboard-Review The cheesy version of ION is on the right. These things tend to happen, when NVidia doesn't have a "bus license" for whatever Intel is using on a given day. At least connecting to PCI Express is free and clean, but a x1 lane is gutless (as at least in this example, it would not be Rev.3) . http://techreport.com/news/18546/nex...n-takes-flight Paul |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
On 05/08/2017 10:05 AM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote: I was given a Zotak mini-PC with Win7 some time ago and just upgraded it to Win10 In device manager no driver is present for the co-processor. (as best as I recall there were no drivers missing in Win7) So far I have not been able to find a driver either using the Windows search function or from the Intel website. Machine seems to work OK... What does this co-processor do? Is a driver really needed? When you use Device Manager, do Properties on the unknown item, can you get a HardwareID and a VEN/DEV or VID/PID ? As that's how you'd track down an unknown. This kinda sounds like your symptom, so it could be the ION GPU. https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...t-is-missing-/ There were a couple of IONs. There is another one, which is an "appendage" and connects via a PCI Express x1 lane, and it might not be as nice as this one. This ION has better connectivity. https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mother...erboard-Review The cheesy version of ION is on the right. These things tend to happen, when NVidia doesn't have a "bus license" for whatever Intel is using on a given day. At least connecting to PCI Express is free and clean, but a x1 lane is gutless (as at least in this example, it would not be Rev.3) . http://techreport.com/news/18546/nex...n-takes-flight Paul Thanks for the reply. The CPU is an Intel Atom 330 and I was able to manually install the driver by "Choosing device" selecting "CPU" and finally "Intel" I got the standard warning that the driver may not have been written specifically for your device, but it seems to have worked fine. There are no drivers missing now, though instead of showing four cores, it shows five. Still curious though what the co-processor does. |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
philo wrote:
On 05/08/2017 10:05 AM, Paul wrote: philo wrote: I was given a Zotak mini-PC with Win7 some time ago and just upgraded it to Win10 In device manager no driver is present for the co-processor. (as best as I recall there were no drivers missing in Win7) So far I have not been able to find a driver either using the Windows search function or from the Intel website. Machine seems to work OK... What does this co-processor do? Is a driver really needed? When you use Device Manager, do Properties on the unknown item, can you get a HardwareID and a VEN/DEV or VID/PID ? As that's how you'd track down an unknown. This kinda sounds like your symptom, so it could be the ION GPU. https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...t-is-missing-/ There were a couple of IONs. There is another one, which is an "appendage" and connects via a PCI Express x1 lane, and it might not be as nice as this one. This ION has better connectivity. https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mother...erboard-Review The cheesy version of ION is on the right. These things tend to happen, when NVidia doesn't have a "bus license" for whatever Intel is using on a given day. At least connecting to PCI Express is free and clean, but a x1 lane is gutless (as at least in this example, it would not be Rev.3) . http://techreport.com/news/18546/nex...n-takes-flight Paul Thanks for the reply. The CPU is an Intel Atom 330 and I was able to manually install the driver by "Choosing device" selecting "CPU" and finally "Intel" I got the standard warning that the driver may not have been written specifically for your device, but it seems to have worked fine. There are no drivers missing now, though instead of showing four cores, it shows five. Still curious though what the co-processor does. Get the HardwareID numbers and look it up ? You should also be able to look in the C:\Windows\INF folder and see which oemXX.inf file was just added. Opening the INF file with a text editor, may have comments about it. The text string placed in Device Manager for a newly installed device, is usually nearer the bottom of the INF file text. Paul |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
On 08/05/2017 16:10, philo wrote:
On 05/08/2017 10:05 AM, Paul wrote: snip Still curious though what the co-processor does. The driver you wanted enables 1080p HD video decoding to be offloaded from the Atom processor to the Nvidia GPU. Its not a "real" dedicated co-processor like the floating point math ones of long ago but I guess the effect is similar. |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
On 05/08/2017 10:27 AM, Paul wrote:
ews/18546/next-generation-nvidia-ion-takes-flight Paul Thanks for the reply. The CPU is an Intel Atom 330 and I was able to manually install the driver by "Choosing device" selecting "CPU" and finally "Intel" I got the standard warning that the driver may not have been written specifically for your device, but it seems to have worked fine. There are no drivers missing now, though instead of showing four cores, it shows five. Still curious though what the co-processor does. Get the HardwareID numbers and look it up ? You should also be able to look in the C:\Windows\INF folder and see which oemXX.inf file was just added. Opening the INF file with a text editor, may have comments about it. The text string placed in Device Manager for a newly installed device, is usually nearer the bottom of the INF file text. Paul Machine is put away , I'm working on an emergency right now. Had three jobs today, farmed one out to my wife as it was a Photoshop question |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
On 05/08/2017 01:27 PM, MikeS wrote:
On 08/05/2017 16:10, philo wrote: On 05/08/2017 10:05 AM, Paul wrote: snip Still curious though what the co-processor does. The driver you wanted enables 1080p HD video decoding to be offloaded from the Atom processor to the Nvidia GPU. Its not a "real" dedicated co-processor like the floating point math ones of long ago but I guess the effect is similar. Thank you very much. I am sure the machine is not ever going to be used for video decoding but I always like to make sure all drivers are installed |
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Intel Atom Co-processor
"philo" wrote in message
news I was given a Zotak mini-PC with Win7 some time ago and just upgraded it to Win10 In device manager no driver is present for the co-processor. (as best as I recall there were no drivers missing in Win7) So far I have not been able to find a driver either using the Windows search function or from the Intel website. Machine seems to work OK... What does this co-processor do? Is a driver really needed? Probably not. Mine ran months before I managed to find the correct motherboard driver from Intel. Can't remember what it was as the PC is long gone. -- Regards wasbit |
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