VIAAGP1.SYS on VIA AGP Filter Drive Disk is needed

[pjibe]

Hi I have been having problems with my PC lately and so thought it would be a good idea to upgrade the system with the following.

ASUS K8V se MB
AMD 64 Athlon 3700+
Maxtor SATA 150 HDD 300G
1 G MEM. US Modular
ATI AIW 9600

You must imagine how big problem I had to have the SATA drive being recognize. Even with doing F6 during XP installation with the MB SATA driver on a Floppy. What I finally did I took my old ATA IDE HDD 40G Maxtor to boot the system and I took the clone pogram from Maxtor to copy all files on the new SATA HDD.

In order to fix some problems I had with the previous XP installation on my old HDD, I re-install Windows XP home edition . Whilst going through the 'upgrade' option it comes up with the following error "VIAAGP1.SYS on VIA AGP Filter Drive Disk is needed' as I cannot search Windows during this process I can only press cancel. The upgrade then continues and then I had a bunch of errors in XP even with my ATI driver and I can not even use the Windows Update to install SP2 pack.

Each time I reinstall XP after ( 45 min later) I had the same error even with 4 in 1 driver install just before doing it.

Hence I am now trapped in a loop which I cannot get out of. How can I get the damm thing sorted out? Why this message for VIAAGP 1 it s the first time, is it related to the SATA drive ? Then I will change for a ATA HDD.


Many Many thanks if you can help

Pjibe

[macko72]

http://drivermagic.co.nz/p/nph-detail.php?a=3493

One thing that you might try next time you you do an install of the 4in1 software:

3) Installation
============
Method 1:
Run "setup -b -s ". It will install the relative information of
chipset automatically on your system. It will copy the inf file
"ViaMach.inf" to the '\WINDOWS\INF\' and remove the related registry
tree and then reboot the system. The order of parameter can not be
violated, it must be "-b -s".

Method 2:
Run "setup -s". The same effect as Method 1 except the system will
not reboot.

Method 3:
Click the SETUP.EXE program then it will install the relative information
of chipset automatically on your system. It will copy the inf file
"ViaMach.inf" to the '\WINDOWS\INF\' and remove the related registry
tree and then select "Restart" or "Restart later".

I ran across this Readme while going through older versions of 4in1. It works like a champ. Just make sure that you install this before your actual video drivers.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that you just run these commands from a cmd prompt (works in a command prompt window). Just locate the setup.exe for the 4in1 install.