This article was translated from a German Technical web site.
It describes briefly the woes VIA is continuing to experience in it's 4-in-1 Chipset / driver updates.
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VIA acknowledges problems with PCI performance.
20.12.2001 17:12:51
VIA of TecCHANNEL found problems with PCI transfers using VIA Chipsets has been acknowledged. The Taiwan semiconductor manufacturer wants to create as fast as a remedy as possible.
"We are already operating on a solution. " said VIA's marketing manager Shane Dennison.
It acknowledged thereby about what TecCHANNEL knew alrady for approximately two weeks: VIA's chip-corrodes from the KT133Á to the current P4X266 and KT266Ã and has difficulties with high load on the PCI bus.
Even the old MVP3-Chipsatz for the Socket 7 fights with the problem.
The major occurs when (among other things) a fast fixed disk floods the system bus with data.
It does not play a role whether ATA/133-Adapter or SCSI RAIDs are used by PCI card.
Chip performance from SiS or Intel are faster with the same tests by up to 32 per cent over their VIA counterparts.
Modern mass storage systems are thus overwhelmed by VIA Chipsets.
Beyond the hard disk mass-data transfer problems of the VIA Chipsets, there are also compatability problems with various software packages used in the professional music industry.
It is likely VIA will resolve these problems once again through BIOS Patches and a new 4-in-1-Driver Package.
To date, privious VIA 4-in-1 driver patches have been unable to resolve these problems.
http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/215/22.html
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Perhaps one of our German readers can better interpret the text.
How are others faring using the newer KT266A - drive motherboards and the Via 4-in-1 chpsets (and buggy drivers)?
Tnx!
>> Def
