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    New Intel Chipset Drivers (v9.1 WHQL)

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by DestruyaX, Oct 14, 2008.

  1. DestruyaX

    DestruyaX Notebook Evangelist

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    I haven't seen a thread for these, and not everyone uses DriverAgent, so boomf: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21147

    Trip report: Installing these via the .exe updates only two drivers, one of which is the "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series PCI Express Root Port 24A1" and the "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Chipset Processor to DRAM Controller 24A0." Your screen will go black for a second, jump to a smaller resolution, then go back to normal.

    These are primarily targetted at the 5520/5500/X58 chipsets, but they *do* contain these two new drivers for the 4-series.
     
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    antileech is preventing the link from working. how's driveragent been going for you, woudl you recommend it?
     
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    I *don't* use DriverAgent. :)

    I search periodically for myself.
     
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    Yeah, it only "updated" two things. One of them was rather significant, though - the PCI Express driver deals with how the motherboard talks to the pci.sys file.

    EDIT: Put the forum page link up to avoid the anti-leech.
     
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    The first time I ran it it updated nothing. Second time too. Then the third time I created a shortcut and added the /OVERALL parameter to the end as suggested by others, and then it looked like it was updating drivers as it took longer and the screen flashed black a few times. Still, afterwards, the driver versions remained 9.1.0.1003. So it looks like its not updating anything for me.
     
    Jakamo5, Oct 15, 2008
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