NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2.

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.
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There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro boards and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

I have all my VIA drivers needed provided by VIA submitted to Microsoft in a timely manner to be tested and signed and installed.
Now for a workaround, try the Hyperion drivers for 2K/XP. You can download them from VIA. Right click the setup file Select Compatibility and setup XP for compatibility mode, install the drivers. Reboot, do to device manager and right click your system drivers and ask for driver updates and let it go automatic. "thewizard-oz" wrote in message

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Rick" wrote:

NO VIA drivers for Vista Beta 2!! Grrrrr!!!!
Installing Vista Beta 2 - what a nightmare! The setup moved all non-microsoft drivers to a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out) so Vista refused to boot because "xyz.sys was missing" - about 20 times.
Copied all of those moved .sys files into windows\system32\drviers and it finally booted. But then my wireless intellimouse disappeared. Found that I had no VIA drivers i.e. no VIA USB2, AGP, IDE, SATA drivers. Therefore my ATI Rdaeon 9800 won't install - yes I tried the Vista drivers from ATI but without the VIA AGP driver they won't work. Cannot access my DVD writer or CD-ROM drives because there are no VIA chipset drivers or Vista drivers for them.
Use XP drivers? No way! Vista refuses to install any XP drivers!
What am I supposed to do? How can I run Vista, let alone beta test it, if half of my hardware cannot be installed??
Come on Microsoft and VIA!! Surely you guys could have at least organised basic motherboard chipset drivers before releasing Vista Beta 2.
If anyone can help - great!!! Of not, then it looks like a rollback to XP Pro until the drivers are available.

Every XP driver I needed was installed fine in Vista-64bit and 32-bit. You do have to disable Vista's Driver Signing in 64-bit Vista. To do this create a shortcut on your desktop for the command line. Once you have done that right click on the short cut and click "run as administrator" and type this line in - bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON - then hit return. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"thewizard-oz" wrote:

There are VIA drivers in the Vista base. I have installed both x86 and x64 on boards with VIA 800Pro chips and never needed any additional drivers. Vista even has the VIA RAID driver.
What board do you have that you claim VIA drivers for it?
thewizard-oz wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
"Chris S" wrote:

Yes, Vista did come with "some" VIA drivers and it installed them BUT they were incorrect and NONE of my VIA devices worked! Given that my motherboard is a VIA chipset based ECS PT800CE-A, you can imagine what a nightmare that was. In Device Manager ALL VIA devices came up as installed but incorrect and not working.
There were no updates from VIA or VIA Arena so I have no choice but to reinstall Wind XP from scratch and try and delete all of the Vista files - which I found impossible.
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