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Distribution Package Contents
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Verifying Installation of Driver
This setup package only service for Microsoft
Windows x64 platform of AMD K8 CPU technologies. The other platform are not supported
by this program. All the contents, drivers, are beta version for test purpose.
Besides, we only provide VIA Raid family and AC’97
audio driver here for installation.
Some hardware is not necessary to install driver
like: AGP Controller.
VIA Raid Family driver cover the following VIA RAID
controller:
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South bridge VT8237 SATA
controller
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VT6410 IDE Raid Controller
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VT6420 SATA Raid controller
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VT6421 SATA Raid controller
The AC’97driver cover the following VIA South
bridge chipset:
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VT8233, VT8235, VT8237
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Hardware
This package
should be installed on the system with VIA
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Software
This software package only supports Microsoft Windows© x64 Platforms. The setup program will detect the current platform and install proper driver on your system. The supported platforms are list below:
Windows NT
64-bits Platform: x64
Windows XP x64
Windows
Server 2003 x64
The default-supported language in this package is in English.
If the executed Windows OS is in an un-supported language to this package, the user interface will be represented in English.
This setup package support 34 languages as
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East
Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Thai, Turkish.
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West
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Finish,
French(
Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazi),
Portuguese(
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish.
All the language
sequence is arranged as alphabetical.
In this section, we show the detail file list of ZIP-compressed package in which include setup and driver files.
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Setup files
0X0409.INI,
INSTMSIA.EXE, INSTMSIW.EXE, ISSCRIPT.MSI,
License.rtf,
PCIENUM.SYS, README.TXT, SETUP.EXE,
Setup.ini,
SETUP.ISS, SETUP.MLF, SETUP.SCF,
viasetup.dll,
platform.msi 500x60.BMP 165x300.bmp
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Component
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VIARaid:
Driver: it is the
driver of x64 platform
DrvDisk: it is the
driver disk for Text Setup mode installation. User should copy all files,
folder under the folder to floppy disk root.
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RaidTool
Utility: the RAID
configuration tool
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VIAUDIO:
Driver: it is the
driver for x64 platform
There are two operation modes, Windows UI and command line, to execute installation and remove. The most popular is the Windows UI mode that provides convenient user interface and systematic operation. The command line mode, also called as silent mode, need user append more parameters behind SETUP.EXE as answer to make the setup program silence without pop any dialogs.
There are possible two types setup
package you may have. One is compressed as a zip file includes visible setup
and driver files. Another one is made as a self-extracted-execution file. In
the following, we will show you the steps to complete driver installation and
remove with both package types.
If the downloaded file is ZIP-compressed format, please extract it to proper location in your hard disk first. Then launch the SETUP.EXE by double-clicking. Otherwise, you could double-click the self-extracted-execution file and wait for few seconds for the self-extraction. The extracted file will be deleted automatically after setup has been terminated.
First time execution
If it is the first time to execute the setup package, you will only have the choice of installation.
Maintenance
After the first time execution, you could have choice to make Update and Remove. You will see two options, Update and Remove in the first shown dialog. If you are going to update the driver, please active the Update radio button and press next button to enter next steps. Else, if you are going to remove the installed driver in your system, please active the Remove radio button and press next button to enter next steps.
The silent mode are usually applied to system maintainer for servicing hundreds systems that wont have interactive user interface. They would execute the setup through command line in console or batch file execution without closing any popped dialog popped or pressing next buttons. In addition, the command line parameters of these two types of downloaded file format get few differences.
ZIP-Compressed Package
In this type package, you could see a setup.exe in those extracted files. User could append parameters behind setup.exe as command line in console.
The
present command line parameters are: -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to
remove components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The
xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same
as the component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
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Command line |
Execution
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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setup.exe -s
/z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
Self-Extracted-Execution Package
This type is a single self-extracted-execution file. All necessary files are all integrated together so that user does not need to extract it to specific folder for operation. There is extra parameter to make the self-extracted shell to be in silent mode.
The present command line parameters are -s -a, -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s -a |
It is a required command line parameter to make
the self-extracted shell program to be in silent mode. And it should be the
first parameter in command line. |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to
remove components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The
xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same
as the component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
We assume that you download a self-extracted-execution file named as IDE_MPD0001.exe.
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Command line |
Execution
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s
/z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s
/z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
The setup program will display the released data
and version for this package.
There is specific version syntax for package
identification:
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Version field: X.YY
The X is
the major version of this package; and YY represents the minor version.
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A, B, CK
It is
always appended after version field to represent the qualified by Windows Hardware
Qualification Lab. The A means the first package for the same driver binary, B
means the second released package for the same driver binary, and so on.
Limitation
None