Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility

[chuckbam]

I knew from some time now that my drivers were not being changed to the Intel drivers with the Chipset Software Installation Utility.

I had some free time due to the hurricane in LA, so I read the installation txt and fooled around with both the zip and the exe. I used the run commands. After many attempts without success, I went into safe mode and loaded the driver manually. I did the same on my notebook and another computer.

On one computer it solved the video driver stopped and recovered problem. And, on my PC it increased large file moves. I going to do it to another computer with Vista that will not recognize a flash drive to see if it is a fix.

On an XP computer they load just fine. I guess Intel does not want any liability on a Vista computer. Even though, they have a disclaimer.

All my drivers were from Microsoft 2006. Now they are different dates from Intel version 8.6.1.1002.

I have had no problems with the change to Intel drivers. I need to do some more benchmarks. I believe they will be improved. Oh, it solved a problem with a USB hub that I could not get to work.

[iMogal]

Originally Posted by chuckbam

On one computer it solved the video driver stopped and recovered problem.

hum, I may have to try this, I'm using WinXP Pro in 64 bit.
(I hate the 64 bit ver - Nothing but compat probs)

When I reinstall 32bit again, and try the safe mode trick.

Thanx

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by iMogal

hum, I may have to try this, I'm using WinXP Pro in 64 bit.
(I hate the 64 bit ver - Nothing but compat probs)

When I reinstall 32bit again, and try the safe mode trick.

Thanx

I don't think the XP 64 ever had the full support from MS or maybe it was the driver support from the industry. I had it for a while and also had problems.

Not at first, but now I am having a reliable OS with Vista 64.

[ATINUT]

XP 64 never had full support from anyone, not even hardware manufacturers, ie not a lot of support in the way of drivers.

Vista 64, is my first 64bit OS.

[Baud]

I never care for the utility thing upgrade: I run it and that's all; my systems do not work wrong afterwards (and didn't before). Of course, I could check everything that's documented in the readme, but I'm too lazy to do this. In fact, it's Intel that should include the checking in its utility. The present way of working is simply not acceptable in 2008.

[S.SubZero]

Originally Posted by iMogal

hum, I may have to try this, I'm using WinXP Pro in 64 bit.
(I hate the 64 bit ver - Nothing but compat probs)

Off topic here, but what "compat probs" does XP64 give you? I ran XP64 for 18 months and I never had a single problem with it.

[iMogal]

Originally Posted by S.SubZero

Off topic here, but what "compat probs" does XP64 give you? I ran XP64 for 18 months and I never had a single problem with it.

Lets see, most of the games I play crash in 64bit, my AutoCAD is 32bit only, the stupid flash player wont install for 64bit...
(I know theres work around for this, but haven't followed though with it)
To be fair with the games, it maybe a Video card/driver issue...

I really see no valid, positive points to keep XP64 installed. Its not any faster and poses no benifits other then being able to see a full 4gigs of mem.

I've bought a secondhand system with a Vista 32bit on it... I've started to play with that, and so far so good.
I had to put anouther 2gigs mem in it, cuz it came with 512k... LOL, what a pig of a system...

Anyways, thats my personal experience with XP64... its just not worth the hastle when XP32 was chuggin' along just fine... Vista maybe different.

[chuckbam]

With the Intel drivers my PCMARK05 hard drive score went from 10977 to 11583 (Raid 0 w/ 2x 500 GB drives)

I also believe I have increased USB stability and compatibility.

Vista 64 U

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by iMogal

Lets see, most of the games I play crash in 64bit, my AutoCAD is 32bit only, the stupid flash player wont install for 64bit...
(I know theres work around for this, but haven't followed though with it)
To be fair with the games, it maybe a Video card/driver issue...

I really see no valid, positive points to keep XP64 installed. Its not any faster and poses no benifits other then being able to see a full 4gigs of mem.

I've bought a secondhand system with a Vista 32bit on it... I've started to play with that, and so far so good.
I had to put another 2gigs mem in it, cuz it came with 512k... LOL, what a pig of a system...

Anyways, thats my personal experience with XP64... its just not worth the hastle when XP32 was chuggin' along just fine... Vista maybe different.

I have Vista 64 and love it. I use an uxtheme patch to increase Aero. It has full backup. And, I even love the side bar. The things I like about Vista, you would probably not need on a business computer. I also have two TV cards and my computer is my #1 used TV with the Media Center.

But, I only took off XP on one computer that I did not own. That computer has been nothing but headaches for me. I turned off auto update (I have it off on my computer also) because the thing crashed 2x after an update. The other day I loaded the SP1. And that takes a long time on a slower computer. This computer will not read a flash drive ( I need to try a USB card). But the FD problem may be the MB. It is an early ASRock 775 board. Last ASRock I will ever install. It has proprietary design video slots and who know what else. I looked, and they still do that. Oh, No updated drivers on the website. I installed a PCI-X card and it worked. I had no idea by reading the pdf. I needed to install a LAN card. On-board gives Windows mail corruptions. It did that also w/ XP. Only time I have seen that.

They seemed to give many of the Vista guts to XP in updates. You can now even turn on SuperFetch.

A friend just came back from a sales meeting with a new notebook. It has a Vista decal and a Vista disk in the box. But, it is loaded with XP. They were told not to load Vista.

[zapionics<alt>]

Originally Posted by chuckbam

I knew from some time now that my drivers were not being changed to the Intel drivers with the Chipset Software Installation Utility.

I had some free time due to the hurricane in LA, so I read the installation txt and fooled around with both the zip and the exe. I used the run commands. After many attempts without success, I went into safe mode and loaded the driver manually. I did the same on my notebook and another computer.

On one computer it solved the video driver stopped and recovered problem. And, on my PC it increased large file moves. I going to do it to another computer with Vista that will not recognize a flash drive to see if it is a fix.

On an XP computer they load just fine. I guess Intel does not want any liability on a Vista computer. Even though, they have a disclaimer.

All my drivers were from Microsoft 2006. Now they are different dates from Intel version 8.6.1.1002.

I have had no problems with the change to Intel drivers. I need to do some more benchmarks. I believe they will be improved. Oh, it solved a problem with a USB hub that I could not get to work.

Wow, forgive my ignorance on this topic, but what is this issue with the Intel chipset drivers? How exactly did you solve it? You said it solved the video driver stop/restart issue... would you post the steps?

[shaihulud]

There is actually no change with the drivers that are loaded, if the utility is installed. The utility will even skip over those that are installed too, as by design and when necessary. The drivers used are integral to Vista. The software utility does not include any drivers in itself. E.g., the PCIe port is still a basic normal Vista pci.sys driver. The inf will change the "version" but that is actually misleading. Because there is no change in the driver and sometimes there is no driver to load. It is just a PCI bridge being identified (in that case). But, this should be installed if it has not, because the Intel EHCI devices are not filtered correctly upon initial Vista OS install. They are using default inf settings. Even though it is still Vista drivers, the settings are what are important.

[polonyc2]

I always install the latest Intel Chipset utility for my system (but I only do it when doing a fresh install/reformat)...and under device manager--->system devices, some of the driver versions and dates do change with each new chipset utility version...same with the USB controllers

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by polonyc2

I always install the latest Intel Chipset utility for my system (but I only do it when doing a fresh install/reformat)...and under device manager--->system devices, some of the driver versions and dates do change with each new chipset utility version...same with the USB controllers

zapionics<alt>

I even have used the Run command, and they did not load.
\INFINST (or Setup) -OVERWRITE -S

So I did it like polonyc2 . I don't think the latest one comes in a zip. I had to locate where they were extracted. I needed to load them in safe mode. http://chuckbam.com/Posts/Intel.zip

[shaihulud]

some of the driver versions and dates do change with each new chipset utility version...same with the USB controllers

I understand what you are saying. Now read one more time what I posted, and then click on driver details. You are looking at the wrong information, the date of the inf and its version is irrelative. As I mentioned in the previous post, the drivers do not change. The drivers will be the same integral drivers included since 2006, unless changed by the service pack for Vista. This will be the same for Windows XP.

The utility still comes in zip format, and safe mode installation is so unnecessary. You are turning this into something that it is not.

INF Update Utility - Zip Format (2231KB) 9.0.0.1008 6/2/2008 Download
NOTE: File is intended for use by developers/advanced users. If you are not a developer/advanced user, please download INFINST_AUTOL.EXE instead.

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by shaihulud

I understand what you are saying. Now read one more time what I posted, and then click on driver details. You are looking at the wrong information, the date of the inf and its version is irrelative. As I mentioned in the previous post, the drivers do not change. The drivers will be the same integral drivers included since 2006, unless changed by the service pack for Vista. This will be the same for Windows XP.

The utility still comes in zip format, and safe mode installation is so unnecessary. You are turning this into something that it is not.

I could not find the zip for Version: 9.0.0.1011, Date: July 16 2008

Why does Intel have them? And, come out with updates?