Something sounds fishy with your story.
Your processor has nothing to do with it. You should know that, and you should also know that Vista’s 64 Bit was built around AMD’s instruction set, which is one of the reasons why Intel took the bullet and licensed the technology from AMD. You do not need a driver for your CPU in other words.
Also the rudimentary drivers for the rest of the chipset will allow you to boot into the OS to allow you to independently install proper drivers as needed, if they are needed as is the case with every OS ever made(well except OS X which has such a narrow driver list that is easy to include inside the OS all the necessary drivers).
Your issue falls on two places, VIA or user level.
Thanks for your response aft. I did get the system working but there are problems with the MOBO. I’m 72 and have been in computers all my life. Abit has virtually left the USA so any help from their web sites is short in coming. Seagate has done nothing towards implementing the drivers for the large drives but little by little things are coming about. I installed Vista 32 not the 64 system. My video was off but that’s because Radeon 9200 drivers haven’t been written and probably won’t be. They start with 9500. Thanks for your reply.