Description Current Version

Supported Chipsets

Supported OSes

 Version Date

INF Chipset Software Installation Utility

 v.6.0.1.1002 845PE, 845GE, 845GV, 850E, 845G, 845E, 845GL, 845, 850, 860, E7500, 845MP, 845MZ, 815, 830, & 810 Families  Win95, Win98(SE), WinMe, Win2K, WinXP 05/07/04
Intel Application Accelerator
RAID Edition		 v.4.1.0.6325 Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition provides support for Serial ATA RAID 0 & RAID 1 on select Intel® 865 and 875 chipset-based PCs with ICH5R. Windows XP Pro & Home
Win 2k		 05/18/04
Intel Application Accelerator v.2.3 845 Family, 850E, 850, 860, 815 Family, 830 Family  Win98(SE), WinMe, NT 4.0, Win2K, WinXP 11/13/02
Floppy Configuration Utility v.1.0 Utility to create a floppy disk containing RAID driver files to pre-install during F6 portion of Windows setup Non-OS Dependent 04/14/03
Chipset ID Utility v.1.04

ALL

ALL

 5/20/02

USB 2.0 Drivers
 

Intel USB 2.0 Chipset Driver
Intel Chipset Driver for USB 2.0 Support. The drivers provided here should work with any manufacturers Intel i845 chipset based motherboards with USB 2.0 controller built on board.
Operating System Version File Name Date
Windows XP 5.1.2600.0 USB2.0.exe 04/08/02
Windows 2000 5.1.2600.0 USB2.0_2K_003.exe 04/08/02
Windows Me 1.00.0000.0 USB20.exe 09/30/02
Windows 98SE 1.00.0000.0 USB20.exe 09/30/02

Preferred Driver Loading Order for Intel Chipset Based Motherboards:

Order Windows XP (Pro & Home) Windows 2000 Windows Me and Win98SE
1 Service Pack 1 Service Pack 3 Intel Chipset INF
2 Intel Chipset INF Intel Chipset INF Microsoft DirectX 8.1
3 Intel Application Accelerator Microsoft DirectX 8.1 Intel Application Accelerator
4 Video Driver (if needed) Intel Application Accelerator Video Driver
5 Other Device Drivers Other Device Drivers Other Device Drivers

Checking Driver Installation
So you think you might have incorrectly installed the drivers? There are a number of ways to check your system for incorrect installation.

First of all, you can check registry settings to see if the chipset driver was installed on the system. By launching the registry editor application, you can view a value that is designated to flag a successfully installed chipset driver. Using the start menu, select "Run…" and enter "regedit" to launch the application. Expand the directory structure as seen in figure 1. Select HKey_Local_Machine/SOFTWARE/INTEL/InfInst and view "Install" to see if the data reads "success". If this registry setting does not read success or you do not have these registry directories, then the chipset driver was never successfully installed.

  Registry Editor

Figure 1: Registry information indicating chipset driver installation

Even if the chipset driver was installed, if it isn't installed in the correct order it will not enable all chipset features. This can be checked by using the freeware WCPUID* tool. This tool is also available at a number of other websites and can be searched for by a number of common search engines.

Using this tool, you can check chipset registry information. Figure 2 is a cropped view of the AGP chipset information that can be viewed using WCPUID. Note the gray values under both the status and command columns that indicate properties that are not established. Under this incorrect driver build order, the OS does not know how to use the graphics features.

Registry Editor
Figure 2: WCPUID view of the disabled AGP bridge

Figure 3 displays the same section of WCPUID as in figure 2 only figure 3 displays the result if you have correctly installed the chipset driver. Although many other features of the chipset can be disabled when the chipset driver is installed incorrectly, the AGP bridge information is one indicator that can easily be checked.

Registry Editor
Figure 3: WCPUID view of the correctly enabled AGP bridge