I installed the latest nforce2 drivers on my board and they suck large moose cock. On reboot, my system gets to the bootscreen and the little blue bar just scrolls and scrolls...

Only thing I can fugure is the IDE driver had lost contact with my HDs. I tried to reinstall the old version, but it will not install (just does to start the installshield and stops). I did the "boot to last know good configuration" thing and all is fine, but damn that sucks.

Not sure if it is related, but my hardware manager thinks all my IDE drives are SCSI?

Anybody else have problems with them?

Bull did you remember selecting "Yes" to installing the nVidia IDE driver?

That wiped me out last time. If you selected yes and installed that, therein lies your problem.

I am running the new drivers that I posted the link to and did not install the IDE nVIDIA driver and it's all ok.

Dammit, yes I did say yes.

How can I reinstall the drivers or can I perform a do-over?? It doesn't seem to want to reinstall the package?

uninstall nforce-package first, reboot, uninstall again trough device manager, reboot and then wait til default ide-drivers are installed over

Thanks LL. I will give that a go. I forgot that the drivers ended up in the add/remove programs.

How do I uninstall through the device manager? You mean take them out but each device?

dude, with winxp, just install over the old ones. it works fine for me and always has.

Manny, for some reason, the installshield will not start up on either driver set. I just wanted to call for a do over. :wink:

extract the exe into a directory using winzip and run it... it should work.

you could also extract to a directory and use device manager and update the drivers one by one.

i used to update to the 2.0x nForce and then go back to 1.3 for just the video this way.... but now the newest dets work great on my lamo-supremo integreated gack IGP

I just uninstalled the works and started over, without updating the IDE driver. Works like a charm!!

Does the new Nforce 2 driver decrease performance?
Lost 30 FPS after installing
By Fuad Abazovic: Wednesday 21 May 2003, 15:16


NVIDIA RECENTLY introduced 2.41, the first set of drivers that can figure out whether you have Nforce 2 Ultra 400 or just the 64 bit version of this chipset called Nforce 2 400 and there's a fair list of enhancements.

Nforce 2 in the past had quite a nice pack of drivers that were able to make these boards work quite smoothly. The IDE driver was not WHQLd but this time Nvidia got this certificate, circumventing those annoying little warnings that otherwise pop up.

The first thing we wanted to check was that whether there was any performance increase in these drivers.

But our tests appear to show that with the Epox 8RDA3+ board that features the Nforce 2 400 Ultra chipset you actually experience a loss in the application suite we used for testing.

In the tests that we ran, we saw a performance decrease in Aquanox. Where I used to get 103.6 FPS with the previous driver on 10x7, with 2.41 I scored 97.7 FPS. On 640x480, the performance drops from 90.7 to 85.0 FPS. In some other game based tests, you can expect similar results.

Quake 3 dramatically fell from 313 FPS to 279.7 FPS at 640x480 while at 1024x768 performance dropped from 299.5 FPS to 271.3 only.

In Sandra 2003 we are also getting similar results but the CPU and Multimedia results haven't suffered as they are directly related to the microprocessor speed.

However, memory performance in the first test fell from a previous 2664 to 2523Mb/s, while in the second test performance decreased from 2491 to 2373MB/s.

Could it be that in order to get WHQL certificate Nvidia had to adjust its IDE performance?

Since Nvidia does not wish to talk to the INQUIRER, I'd quite like feedback from other hardware editors and reviewers on this subject.

Meanwhile if you don't have any problems with your previous Nforce 2 driver, it might be wise to wait and see what verdict the hardware jury returns.

It seems to me that WHQL always comes with something of a performance penalty. µ


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9606

Personally, I would use the 1.3 NON WHQL drivers... and then update the vid with dets, but I have NForce and not NForce2