Need help with Soyo Motherboard

[Sysdll]

I just picked up a used Soyo Motherboard with an Intel 845PE chipset.

The Soyo website is gone and the various driver sites have conflicting information or broken links.

Does anyone know if I can use the chipset drivers and acceleration utility from the Intel site or do I need the Soyo drivers for this board?

Thanks in advance.

Edited July 10, 2009 by Sysdll

[Tripredacus]

Typically, using the chipset drivers will work, regardless of the board. So use the Intel drivers for your chipset, and repeat for whoever makes the rest of your components. Also if you are using XP or Vista, try looking at DriverPacks.net. It has some obscure stuff. There are at least 5 downloads and only video and audio are very large. I use them for things I can't figure out for the most part.

[Sysdll]

Thanks Tripredacus. I’ll give driverpacks a try.

[puntoMX]

I just picked up a used Soyo Motherboard with an Intel 545PE chipset.

Is that not the 845PE?

[Sysdll]

Is that not the 845PE?

Yes it is. Thank you.

I've fixed the typo in my first post.

[g-force]

Maybe give this a try: http://german-winlite.de/wbb/index.php?pag...eadID=2057&

I created a Driver-Cd based on "DriverPacks-SAD" - download it, mount or burn it, see what it`ll do for you.

If translation is needed, please report.

[CoffeeFiend]

There you go. As for other devices, it would help a lot if we knew which particular board it is (usually written between 2 slots)

845PE... That was entry level, 7 years ago... Socket 478, old ICH4, old slow DDR, AGP 4x, no ATA133.... I just hope you didn't pay much for it

[g-force]

My brother owned a board like this - you need to get extra-pay to own this...

[Sysdll]

Thank you for the links.

The model number is P41845PE and it was free.

I used to have a Mercedes and it never broke down. I found that car boring.

I also had an MG that needed tweaking every day. I loved that car.

I’m the same way with computers so this should be a fun project.

[Zenskas]

The model number is P41845PE and it was free.

I used to have a Mercedes and it never broke down. I found that car boring.

I also had an MG that needed tweaking every day. I loved that car.

I’m the same way with computers so this should be a fun project.

You got it. I love tinkering with old stuff (not really old, but past 10 years) and actually getting them to do stuff...classic games, watching videos with a quiet and low powered PC, and now making a file/game server out of parts lying around to take to LAN parties that will sit in the corner taking some load off my PC (as I usually run the game servers and have heaps of files people copy from my PC to theirs over the network). And if it was free then bonus!

Edited July 11, 2009 by Zenskas

[Sysdll]

My brother owned a board like this - you need to get extra-pay to own this...

I finally got around to setting this up. Just in case someone else ends up with one of these orphans, the trick is to disable everything onboard except ide for a cd-rom drive and use the pci slots for a sata controller, soundcard and network card.

And don’t use any Soyo software except for the latest bios upgrade.