Isn't the current level 14.36?

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(14 replies, posted in Software)

While I am not generally in favor of 'eye candy', accurate progress bars are both useful and possibly essential.

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(7 replies, posted in Hardware)

Maybe it's time to spin Via, Nvidia, and SiiS support off into their own driverpack....

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(88 replies, posted in DriverPack LAN)

Actually, Intel updated pretty much ALL of their drivers in the past 10 days.

Audio, LAN, GMA, Chipset, Wireless, and HECI.

Everything was released to support motherboards using the new 4 and 5 series chipsets, but there are new dlls in there for older gear as well.

There are three different driver packages for Audio (newer chips, older ships, OEM'd Reaktek chips) and two different packages for GMA adapters (older and newer chips).

Kasperky and Avast are both notorious for false positives AND for missing some of the more stealthy viruii.

Better to Pay for something like Trend or McAfee Enterprise.  Stay away from Norton.

Ah, but is it available directly from intel.com yet?

I'll bet that if you right click on the yellow icons in your device manager, tell the machine that you want to update driver, then sell it to search the internet, WU will find the drivers.

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(14 replies, posted in News)

Bashrat, have you also though about approaching mirrors.tds.net (Madison, WI, USA) about some mirror space?  They mirror a pile of Linux distros as well as OpenOffice as a 'public service' with loads of bandwidth.  TDS is about 200 kms northwest of SimpleCDN (they are in Chicago, yes) and are on several big fiber pipes as well as Internet2.

Please double check the 6i (7a??) Graphics A nightly; it downloads as corrupt (according to a simple 7Zip archive test) and appears to be about 16Mb too small as compared to previous nightlies.

Ah, so should we bother testing h or wait for h.1?

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(10 replies, posted in Software)

8.06 has been working fine for me since it was a nightly....

162

(10 replies, posted in Software)

8.06 is still available as a nightly.....

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(10 replies, posted in Software)

Is this one now considered 'stable' vs 8.05?  I've been using it for a month or so now without problem.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ … p;lang=eng

At least one of NVs latest driver releases (possibly as many as 6 of them) were improperly tweaked to give false benchmark results on the FutureMark stuff.

FutureMark has publicly spanked NV and has disallowed any benchmark results submitted or published by anyone using the quesionable driver releases.

However, newer Intel IGPs will happily run 19x12 at 32 bit.....

What kind of addon cards and/or "off the motherboard" hardware is in your system?

Some hardware just does not like standby/hibernation and will not recover; the result is often a hung system.

Jake/Jaak, do you have any interest in updating this driverpack?  If so, would you consider adding the Wacom TabletPC driver for XP?

Thanks in advance!

sounds like it could possibly be a monitor driver problem rather than a video driver problem.

Intel released their version of the IDT drivers a few days ago, version 5790 for XP (WHQL).

Thanks Jaak, I think that is the first time I read a description of how th eIntel chipset INFs are collected.

Great stuff!

Nope, not a single 'driver' in there.  The 'dll' files are all language/locale specific and are translation tables for the setup installer.

However, the utility is chock-full of chipset-specific .cat and .inf files though and as such is probably the definitive, single-source for such things from Intel.  No need to hunt all over for mobo-specific installers.  Just grab this thing once a month (or whenever) and drop the inf files into the chipset driverpack.

The .inf files also list out just about every (valid?!?) HardwareID for Intel motherboards.  Nice source of information there.

Is your host system running Vista?

I'm not sure how useful the Intel utility itself is for the Driver Packs themselves, but it might be useful as a **guide** for what is really necessary to support Intel mobos and chipsets.

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(5 replies, posted in DriverPack Sound)

Would someone check them please, thanks!