How to uninstall VIA bus master IDE controller

[Lee M.]

I'm getting ready to swap motherboards and want to revert to the Microsoft
standard IDE controller. I cannot seem to uninstall the VIA busmaster
driver. If I try to uninstall from the Control Panel, when the machine
reboots it goes out and finds it again and reinstalls it. It won't let me
roll back the driver because there's nothing to roll back to. Can I just
delete all the VIA files from the \system32\drivers folder? Will that force
XP to use the standard MS driver?

Btw, I have tried to install the VIA driver with the VIA setup program and
then select uninstall from the option menu but that didn't work either.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Rich Barry]

Lee, have you tried uninstalling the Via Busmaster controllers from
Device manager?

 

[Lee M.]

Yes, that's what I meant when I said control panel. After selecting
uninstall driver and the uninstall finishes, it reboots then XP detects the
"new" hardware and reinstalls the VIA driver. That's why I wondered if I
deleted the VIA drivers before rebooting, if XP would be forced to use the
MS supplied drivers.

 

[Lee M.]

Got it figured out. Had to pick update driver (from the device manager
entry), then install from specific location, then don't search and the MS
drivers appeared in a list with the VIA drivers.

 

[Rich Barry]

Lee, check here for more info. Do a search for Via files and try
deleting them.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html