8.4.0.1016

Closing this one....

The funny thing with Intel is (I've experienced that myself), that they tend to release a LOWER driver version number on a LATER date than the HIGHER version number driver (which is hence OLDER).

Maybe the folks at Intel are actually the blind ones not noticing their own contradiction, who knows...

They are definitely blind at intel they're making this messy and so hard to understand. To make sure I have the latest version I compare the .ini files together with araxis merge. Also Intel is really not a big fan of 1 driver for all, specially concerning their graphic drivers, so you have to edit them and remove the doubled hwids in the older drivers and only keep the hwids in the most recent drivers version. A lot of work.

Maybe the folks at Intel are actually the blind ones not noticing their own contradiction, who knows...

Ver:8.3.1.1009 Date:8/7/2007

Maybe im blind....

'7.08',
'24 August 07',
'Intel Chipset drivers from 8.2.0.1014 to 8/7/2007, 8.3.1.1009'

a tool to extract the HWIDS gets a helluvaLOT of dupes in there.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_ … ldID=10884

Oh
the reason all these files got triplicated, and that the old ones got added to new ones, was this.
the current drivers are good for all OSes.

the OLD drivers the newest had dropped were good for all OSes, and all these OLD files came from fresh downloads (the intel archved drivers) so the three OS have all available drivers and yes, one folder would support all three OS. (but, I can't do that. M1 would NOT work.) .
(The SP folder could also go, far as I know, but once again, method 1 stops me from doing this. )

Thanks for your attention regarding this problem. Actually Jaak all .inf in folder SP are sixtuplated. I haven't compared inf together but I'm pretty sure Hwid's are duplicated between different inf files. As you know Intel are really not clever when it's come to make unified driver.

http://winmerge.org/ This one is free do.

All members of the team should use one of those. You can compare entire folders and it will detect all differences in seconds.

the OLD drivers the newest had dropped were good for all OSes, and all these OLD files came from fresh downloads (the intel archved drivers) so the three OS have all available drivers and yes, one folder would support all three OS. (but, I can't do that. M1 would NOT work.) .
(The SP folder could also go, far as I know, but once again, method 1 stops me from doing this. )

at the moment, the folder structure for INTEL will have to stay as it is.
I would delete the triplicated intel folders if I could do so without causing an error in method 1
(yes... they have exact same content right now.)

if somebody updates these, please do NOT toss away the OLD files, because the newer drivers have FEWER files, and support a LOT less hardware.
When you update, overwrite the INTEL files.

8.3.1.1009
This download is intended for use with Intel® Desktop Boards.

8.3.0.1013
This utility installs INF files that inform the operating system how to properly configure the chipset for specific functionality such as USB and AGP.

Seems pretty obvious to me which drivers we should be using for the majority of our users. (Hint: 8.3.0.1013)

But again, double-checking each .inf file and the driver files themselves can't hurt.  As long as the appropriate HWIDs are represented in the newer version, it might be worth a test.
I can test 865PE and 855M.

8.3.1.1009
8.3.0.1013

8.3.1 is more recent than 8.3.0 I made the same mystake when I  first read it.

Plus, xxxxx.com made a news for it 6 days ago.

You can refer to this link:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ … p;lang=eng

Here's the download link.
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/10884/e … _Intel.exe

No cr@ck sites please(Muiz)