Via IDE drivers

[Harold7]

For anyone interested here's something I found out after several hours of troubleshooting:

If you have a Via chipset and experience trouble getting Windows to recognize a DVD-ROM or a CD-RW drive, try uninstalling the Via Atapi driver and instead install the Microsoft IDE drivers from your Windows CD.

In particular, enter Device Manager, update the drivers for IDE 1 and 2 and update the bus mastering drivers as well by forcing the use of the bus mastering drivers from the Windows CD and not those Windows tries to force you to use.

Apparently some CD-RW or DVD drives have problems with the Via IDE drivers (as I found out) in the Via 1in4 driver sets.

Now I can see my Plextor CD-RW again and I even can now set DMA, and have it stay set, for my DVD drive which I couldn't do before.

I guess I'll have to apologize to Creative tech support for the long message I sent them about why I couldn't get DMA to work with their DVD drive...ooops! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Bovon]

Long thread...interesting

Covers this subject from stem to stern...no solutions...yet.

If you have found the answer, I'm sure many would be happy to hear from you.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=108963

[codybear]

Thank you...it worked for mine!!!tried all the drivers I could and reinstalled with different drivers everytime and your advice worked. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

doing the transfers I could not before right now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by codybear (edited 03-25-2001).]

[Harold7]

Wow! After reading the link Bovon provided I feel like I only had some minor glitches with the Via 1in4 Drivers.

I haven't experienced any of the severe problems that others at that link are getting... guess I've just been lucky because so far, my T-Bird 1.2 Gig/266FSB on this Asus A7v KT133A/266FSB board is very stable... haven't had any crashes or lockups yet, maybe because I have my 2 HDs on the promise ATA100 Controller instead of on IDE 1.

I'm glad I could help codybear, I guess for minor problems such as unable to select DMA or failure to detect some CD-Rom/DVD/CD-RW drive types, the solution I found will provide relief... as to the other problems people are having, try it and if it doesn't help, you're no worse off.

I can't take credit for this solution BTW, I came across it at the Plextor site under their FAQ section while trying to find info on why my PlexWriter wasn't being detected... tried it and it worked for me. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Variable]

Just don't enable DMA and use the standard Windows Drivers that are installed when you install windows!
I never installed those VIA drivers and I don't have any problems!