Processor Driver?

spacedude89

spacedude89

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my mother board has a cd with a amd athlon 64 driver. what does this do, and is it neccescary? its a very large file and id rather not install it if i dont have to..
 
Very large? My Abit came with one too but it wasn't anything large at all. I beleive it's for the "Cool and Quiet" technology... I might be wrong but both my desktop and laptop had something.
 
my mother board has a cd with a amd athlon 64 driver. what does this do, and is it neccescary?
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The driver is in the ballpark of 30K. Dont quite seeing that as being massive.
 
hmmm, i just reinstalled windows for the first time, i do this every couple months, but seince this is a new computer, this is my first time, i just installed it to see how big it was, its really small...........wtf 0.o, last time i installed it it showed up as a 250 meg file......i guess it shrunk....im so confused...OHH, in add/remove programs is says its over four thousand megs, 4,095., wtf....
 
Hmmm

Hahah....you may be reading the numbers wrong. Note that 1MB is 1024KB. 1KB is 8Kb. I am 10000% sure its not the size you are saying it is ;).

JAN :D
 
yes i know, im not reading it wrong, if anything, the computer is wrong. when i organize by size, its above anything else, including far cry and hl2.... i know its not that big but the computer thinks it that big....
 
i know its not that big but the computer thinks it that big....
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It? The processor driver is located in C:\Windows\System32\Driver and you can check for yourself
 
in the windows/system32/drivers, its really small, but in add/remove programs its big, why?
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Hahha

That is funny indeed. If only we would know what causes it. I think it's a bug of some sort in the <add/remove programs> component of Windows.

JAN :D
 
it is a amd athlon 64 driver that comes with my abit av8 motherboard, heres a screen shot,i know its not a virus or anything....
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it is a amd athlon 64 driver that comes with my abit av8 motherboard, heres a screen shot,i know its not a virus or anything....
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Wow thats one of the more retarded things ive seen as of late ... I know AMD procs had that option back in the K7 days but I thought that was kinda dropped... *pops his ASUS CD in the drive* .... nope my ASUS board here doesnt have any funky drivers (i.e., its not critical).

Not having an A64 system to check, are you sure you need to install that 'driver'?
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I wouldnt think so. Even when i download it from the Abit Site its only 8.5MB ... taking a spin through the manual (page59) which has a similar screenshot, the Athlon64 driver isnt listed as it is above and nowhere does the manual mention installing a processor driver. Pretty safe to say its kinda useless
 
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