Clarification please about chipset drivers for this board

[AaronATX]

Little confused here about a few things.

 

First of all, we only have southbridge drivers, correct? That southbridge is the ATI SB450. This controls the ATI driven sata ports, USB, and IDE and SMbus.....right? Anything else?

 

Originally the drivers that came with the motherboard, and the ones on the dfi website are 5-8-igp_xp-2k1.exe There appears to be no changes since.....

 

 

BUT, I was digging around on the ATI website and noticed a new SB package 6-1_xp_sb_29602 ....I cant really tell what is different yet, as there is no changelog file.

 

Upon further digging it appears that with every FULL download of a new catalyst driver, new SB drivers are included also?

 

I'm probably making this too complicated, but it just seems awefully different from all the other chipsets I have used in the past. Any clarification would be great.

[Kirbs]

Hi,

 

Don't know if there is any difference between the Southbridge drivers that came with the board and the ones included in the driver package you refer to, but I have always updated my divers with the full package each time ATI brings out a new set.

 

My previous board had the nForce 2 chipset and nVidea were always updating their chipset drivers, although they were not included as a complete package with the graphics drivers.

[HybridHB]

You can get the SB drivers only on ATI's site.

[AaronATX]

So this is either a really stupid question, or noone knows, or cares.

[mmouse]

Lol DL the full CAT set 6.1's for display the SB/CHIPSET driver is in that package if oyu odnt run a ati card no biggy it iwll jsut instlal what drivers it needs

 

I install my SB?CHIPSET driver from my CAT's I use for my X1900's