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Realtek Lan and ITE Raid drivers upgrade...Giga-byte 7N400 Pro2 Rev 2...Update??
quick question...i prefer to stay current on all my driver revisions.
how do i tell the driver revs for the LAN and ITE Raid Driver?? here's what i see: Realtek driver in System Properties is: 5.611.1231.2003 Realtek Driver on the Giga-byte website is: 6.15 Should I read the System Propp driver as 5.61?? any suggestions? ITE Driver in System Properties: 1.4.1.6 ITE Driver on Giga-byte webiste is 1.4.1.6 YET...ITE website has version for download: 1.7.1.9 Should i upgrade or not worry about it and stick with the Giga-byte site driver rev?? any suggestions? Thanks in advance... tw |
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GolfNut wrote:
quick question...i prefer to stay current on all my driver revisions. how do i tell the driver revs for the LAN and ITE Raid Driver?? here's what i see: Realtek driver in System Properties is: 5.611.1231.2003 Realtek Driver on the Giga-byte website is: 6.15 Should I read the System Propp driver as 5.61?? I would read it as either 5.61, or 6.11. I've disabled the LAN on my 7N400, so I can't actually help you there.. sorry. any suggestions? ITE Driver in System Properties: 1.4.1.6 ITE Driver on Giga-byte webiste is 1.4.1.6 YET...ITE website has version for download: 1.7.1.9 Should i upgrade or not worry about it and stick with the Giga-byte site driver rev?? any suggestions? Thanks in advance... tw The first piece of advice I have, is if your system is working fine and doesn't need anything fixed, don't worry about updating the drivers. Until recently, I felt the same as you... until I realized the latest NVidia drivers actually cause my particular system to lose some performance. That being said, you might want to look at the NVidia website for the absolute latest in NForce2 driver sets. However, in theory, the driver set included on Gigabyte's website are the "officially" reccomended ones that have been "throuroughly tested." Ryan |
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"GolfNut" wrote in message ... quick question...i prefer to stay current on all my driver revisions. how do i tell the driver revs for the LAN and ITE Raid Driver?? here's what i see: Realtek driver in System Properties is: 5.611.1231.2003 Realtek Driver on the Giga-byte website is: 6.15 Should I read the System Propp driver as 5.61?? any suggestions? ITE Driver in System Properties: 1.4.1.6 ITE Driver on Giga-byte webiste is 1.4.1.6 YET...ITE website has version for download: 1.7.1.9 Should i upgrade or not worry about it and stick with the Giga-byte site driver rev?? any suggestions? Thanks in advance... I agree with Ryan that you shouldn't fix it unless it is broken. I have the original drivers on my 8KNXP except for Realtek and the 82801ER (RAID controller). My version numbers for Realtek don't jibe with your's, so I assume we have a different hardware version since I just upgraded drivers from the GB site last week. I updated Realtek because of an odd error message I received last week ("Bad DirectSound driver...." and another too long to post), and the RAID drivers just before creating an ICH5R RAID0 array about a month ago. I also don't update the bios unless there is a clear reason to do so, even though I've never had an errant bios update in 22 years fooling with computers (knocking firmly on wood). I figure the odds are against this good fortune continuing forever, as my number is long overdue, so I don't do it unless there is a reason. |
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"GolfNut" ha scritto nel messaggio
... ITE Driver in System Properties: 1.4.1.6 ITE Driver on Giga-byte webiste is 1.4.1.6 YET...ITE website has version for download: 1.7.1.9 Those on ITE website are for the standalone PCI card, not for the integrated mobo chip, so stay away from them V |
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"Karen Parker" wrote in message news On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:57:11 +0100, "Visual" wrote: "GolfNut" ha scritto nel messaggio . .. ITE Driver in System Properties: 1.4.1.6 ITE Driver on Giga-byte webiste is 1.4.1.6 YET...ITE website has version for download: 1.7.1.9 Those on ITE website are for the standalone PCI card, not for the integrated mobo chip, so stay away from them V They are updating there bios's, as I have a Bios for my MoBo with the latest ITE 1.7.1.9 bios, I kept bugging Gigabyte and they gave in, plus it fixed a boot and drive problems and also lets you boot from any of the 4 drives.. I contacted them about the ITE Bios updates plus a boot problem with 2 hard drives on the ITE controller, but it was OK with 4 drives. They more or less did not want to know about the ITE Bios update, but when they supplied me with a new bios for the Boot problem the new ITE Bios was there. I had made 2 separate posts to them, one regarding the ITE Bios and the other to do with the Boot problem.. Hi Karen What board do you have ? I have a 8-knxp rev 1. I contacted Gigabyte also about the ITE controllers and they said the bios update was only for the pci card etc etc. My problem is that I am running my optical drives on ITE raid controllers and the boot up time is slow while the ITE controller scans for devices. I did a bit of searching on the internet and patched a bios myself and it has been working now for a couple of days. The only drawback with my patch is that I do not have raid support but this doesnt worry me as I dont intend to use the ITE controllers for raid regards Denis |
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"Karen Parker" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:42:40 +1100, "Denis Fitzgibbon" (Trimmed) They hog washed you, read the FAQ on the ITE site as it does say to pester your MoBo maker, follow the ITE 8712 link to the FAQ. Mine is the 8I875 Ultra with a F11a bios as supplied by Gigabyte, this MoBo is the same as the 8KNXP Rev 2.0, but with out the DPS2.. I am also not using Rail, but I did need more IDE ports, that is why I am using it plus it far better the have the hard drives not on the same port as the CD Roms.. Plus I get the feature to boot from any Hard drive of the ITE controler. Hi Karen Thank you for your very helpful reply. I ran my optical drives on the raid controllers as I dont like sharing HD's and the Dvd drives on the same controller. I also had drive issues with the ITE controller so I decided to run the optical drives on the ITE controllers regards Denis |
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