Silicon Image 3112a drivers

[Philip Baker]

I have installed Vista OK with existing XP drivers, but I have two
questions:

1. I am not sure what the latest XP version is, can anyone tell me, and
where to get it?

2. Are the above the best to use with Vista, or has anyone found anything
better?

Thanks,

PB

 

[Mike Bernstein]

Silicon Image seem to have dropped support for the 3112a from their website.
However, updates do still occassionally come from Windows Updates. The
latest drivers from that source are the 1.0.56. ones. However, because they
are directly installed is difficult to transfer them to Vista. For my
Vista setup I have used the last that were available from the SI website -
the 1.0.053 version. These seem to run OK although the Control Panel readout
doesn't work properly.

What version did you use?

Mike Bernstein

 

[Mike Bernstein]

Correction, you can get the 1.0.56.1 drivers off the SI website by entering
Sil 3512 into the selection list. All the latest 3x12 drivers can be found
there.

Mike Bernstein

 

[Mike Bernstein]

It is not clear to me if you are saying that Vista is on the hard drive that
is not recognised and does not boot or that Vista is OK, boots and that it
is another hard drive that it does not recognise. Until I know this I cannot
suggest anything.

Mike Bernstein

 

[Guest]

Having a similar problem

Have an NForce 3 250 mobo (Gigabyte K8N Pro)
I am trying to install Vista X64

I can install Vista using my old XP x64 drivers (tried the latest ones from
SiI) - all installs fine, but when the installation asks to reboot it comes
up with windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys is corrupt or missing. Have tried
a few times, with different vversions of the driver, and different flopies,
all to the same result.

It is not clear to me if you are saying that Vista is on the hard drive that
is not recognised and does not boot or that Vista is OK, boots and that it
is another hard drive that it does not recognise. Until I know this I cannot
suggest anything.

Mike Bernstein

 

[Mike Bernstein]

Presumably you are giving Vista the drivers during the initial dialog when
it shows the 'load drivers' button. Are you loading more than just the Sil
drivers at this point? I found that if I added only the Sil drivers it
worked, whilst if I added other non-essential drivers at that point, to stop
nag screens, it failed. I assumed that Vista was getting confused about
which driver to use. However, my situation was rather different - Vista 32
bit on nForce 2 Ultra.

Mike Bernstein