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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 Chipsets INF Update Utility and why we need install it.
This setup package is
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.
The purpose of VIA
Chipsets INF Update Utility is listed as following:
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Install
VIA North Bridge Chips’ Device IDs into OS in order to enable their function.
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Install
VIA AGP Controller Device IDs into OS in order to enable their function
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Install
VIA South Bridge Chips’ Device IDs into OS in order to enable their function.
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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 NT
32-bits Platforms
Windows 2000 RTM and above
Windows XP RTM and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
Windows Vista RTM and above
Windows 7
Windows NT
64-bits Platform
Windows XP RTM and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
Windows Vista RTM and above
Windows 7
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(Portugal), Romanian, Serbian,
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,
VIAPCI.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 \Infx64.exe, VIAMACH \Component.cif
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Driver files: VIAMACH\DRIVER\
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Driver\winnt5\viamach.cat,
Driver\WINNT5\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".
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Open "System" in "Control
Panel" and select the "Device Manager".
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Select "System" and check if
the "VIA
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"VIA CPU to AGP Controller" &
"VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge"
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Controller exists or not.
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If it is then your installation is
successful.
Limitation
The package
can’t removed