VIA IDE Accelerator Driver

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This driver supports Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 only. Legacy Microsoft Operating systems are not supported. This driver will increase performance of ATA hard drives and ATAPI devices (such as CD/DVD/combo drives etc). The driver may be used with any VIA chipset. Further information is contained in a detailed Readme file available from the driver download page. The driver is currently only available in an individual package. It will however, be included in a future release of the VIA Hyperion 4in1 driver package. No system requires the driver to operate - it's an optional extra!

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Just did a quick hardrive test, i had to use HDTach results against Sandra because im not rolling back IDE drivers just to test them in sandra.

HDTach with no VIA Accelerated IDE: Maxtor 80gb 6Y080L0 7200RPM 8mb Cache - Average Read of 48.9 MB/s with an average access time of 14ms

Sandra with Accelerated IDE: Average Read of 51.2 MB/s with an average access time of 8ms

Now i dont know if the access time in HDTach was an anomaly but i ran it a few times and got the same access time. But i ran Sandra a few times and got about the same 8ms results so it does accelerate a bit.

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  LastSamurai said:
phewww, almost killed my system. it wouldnt boot into windows and I had to use last good configuration then uninstall it from control panel. be careful with it, make sure you read the readme file first.

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what special thing we have to do to install these drivers?

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