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:
> 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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> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...s.vista.general

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" <thewizardoz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BDAC97B2-B5EE-4CAE-B25C-5625FD37DE3B@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...s.vista.general