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Distribution Package Contents
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Verifying Installation of Driver
The user guide intends to show how to install VIA
MACHINE INF package and why we need install it.
This setup package is using U-setup package
developed by VIA Technologies that have the following features for your
convenience.
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One setup, all system components
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The setup packages could carry
tens software components that your system required.
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The setup package only needs to
reboot once for all components if it is necessary.
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No more nightmare on downloading
multilingual package
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The package default provide
multilingual user interface for over 30 languages.
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The package support
international user interface but have small package size. This technology only
needs 7% file size to provide over 30 languages.
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The setup will present the
language of your system automatically.
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Smart suggestion for component
update
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The setup will detect the
present component in this system and compare them with the executed package.
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If the executed package carries
the newer component than this system, then it will suggest you to install it.
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Clicking, chose components
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For an advanced user on computer
management, now you could have the whole control for installed components. The
user interface provides you to select the desired components to be installed or
removed.
About the function of VIA MACHINE INF package, I
list below:
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Installing NB driver which the
hardware ID of NB still not check-in to OS.
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Installing AGP driver which the
hardware ID of AGP still not check-in to OS.
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Installing SB driver which the
hardware ID of SB still not check-in to OS.
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Installing VPX driver which the
hardware ID of VPX still not check-in to OS.
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Installing special drivers on
our new chip.
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Hardware
This package
should be installed on the system with VIA
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Software
This software package only supports Microsoft Windows© Platforms. The setup program will detect the current platform and install proper driver on your system. The supported platforms are list below:
Windows
95, 98 and Millennium Platforms
Windows 95 4.00.950 and above
Windows 98 4.10.1998 and above
Windows Millennium RTM
Windows NT
32-bits Platforms
Windows 2000 RTM and above
Windows XP RTM and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
Windows NT
64-bits Platform
None
The default-supported language in this package is in English.
If the executed Windows OS is in an un-supported language to this package, the user interface will be represented in English.
This setup package support 34 languages as
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East
Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Thai, Turkish.
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West
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Finish,
French(
Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazi),
Portuguese(
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish.
All the language
sequence is arranged as alphabetical.
In this section, we show the detail file list of ZIP-compressed package in which include setup and driver files.
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Setup files
0X0409.INI,
INSTMSIA.EXE,
INSTMSIW.EXE,
ISSCRIPT.MSI,
License.rtf,
PCIENUM.SYS,
README.TXT,
SETUP.EXE,
Setup.ini,
SETUP.ISS,
SETUP.MLF,
SETUP.SCF,
viasetup.dll,
VIASetup.msi
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Component
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VIAMACH
VIAMACH \INFDrv.dll, VIAMACH \INFDrv9x.dll, VIAMACH \Kompnt.cif
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Driver files: VIAMACH\DRIVER\
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Windows Server 2003
SERVER2003\viamach.cat,
SERVER2003\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows XP
WINXP\viamach.cat,
WINXP\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows 2000
WIN2000\viamach.cat,
WIN2000\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows Millennium
WINME\viamach.cat,
WINME\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows 98SE
WIN98SE\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows 98
WIN98\VIAMACH.INF
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Windows 95
WIN95\VIAMACH.INF
There are two operation modes, Windows UI and command line, to execute installation and remove. The most popular is the Windows UI mode that provides convenient user interface and systematic operation. The command line mode, also called as silent mode, need user append more parameters behind SETUP.EXE as answer to make the setup program silence without pop any dialogs.
There are possible two types setup
package you may have. One is compressed as a zip file includes visible setup
and driver files. Another one is made as a self-extracted-execution file. In
the following, we will show you the steps to complete driver installation and
remove with both package types.
If the downloaded file is ZIP-compressed format, please extract it to proper location in your hard disk first. Then launch the SETUP.EXE by double-clicking. Otherwise, you could double-click the self-extracted-execution file and wait for few seconds for the self-extraction. The extracted file will be deleted automatically after setup has been terminated.
First time execution
If it is the first time to execute the setup package, you will only have the choice of installation.
Maintenance
After the first time execution, you could have choice to make “Update” and “Remove”. You will see two options, “Update” and “Remove” in the first shown dialog. If you are going to update the driver, please active the “Update” radio button and press next button to enter next steps. Else, if you are going to remove the installed driver in your system, please active the “Remove” radio button and press next button to enter next steps.
The silent mode are usually applied to system maintainer for servicing hundreds systems that won’t have interactive user interface. They would execute the setup through command line in console or batch file execution without closing any popped dialog popped or pressing next buttons. In addition, the command line parameters of these two types of downloaded file format get few differences.
ZIP-Compressed Package
In this type package, you could see a setup.exe in those extracted files. User could append parameters behind setup.exe as command line in console.
The
present command line parameters are: -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup |
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-z”Param1;…;ParamN” |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;…;ParamN,
should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to
remove components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The xx,yy,zz should be replaced with
component name in which is defined as same as the component folder name of
this package. |
Examples:
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Command line |
Execution
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
Self-Extracted-Execution Package
This type is a single self-extracted-execution file. All necessary files are all integrated together so that user does not need to extract it to specific folder for operation. There is extra parameter to make the self-extracted shell to be in silent mode.
The present command line parameters are -s -a, -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s -a |
It is a required command line parameter to make
the self-extracted shell program to be in silent mode. And it should be the
first parameter in command line. |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup would not
executive in silent mode |
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-z”Param1;…;ParamN” |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;…;ParamN,
should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to
remove components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The xx,yy,zz should be replaced with
component name in which is defined as same as the component folder name of
this package. |
Examples:
We assume that you download a self-extracted-execution file named as IDE_MPD0001.exe.
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Command line |
Execution
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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VIAINFXXX.exe -s -a -s
/z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
The setup program will display the released data
and version for this package.
There is specific version syntax for package
identification:
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Version field: X.YY
The X is
the major version of this package; and YY represents the minor version.
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A, B, C…
It is
always appended after version field to represent the qualified by Windows
Hardware Qualification Lab. The A means the first package for the same driver
binary, B means the second released package for the same driver binary, and so
on.
Verifying Installation of Driver
Please follow the steps to verify the
installed driver of VIA Machine INF:
1. Open "Control Panel" from "Start Menu ->
Settings".
2. Open "System" in "Control Panel" and select the
"Device Manager".
3. Select "System" and check if the "VIA
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"VIA CPU to AGP
Controller" & "VIA Standard PCI to
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Controller exists or
not.
4. If it is then your installation is successful.
Limitation
The package can’t removed