new nforce drivers released 2,41's

Mr cairo · May 19, 2003, 07:54 PM

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

dipstick · May 19, 2003, 08:34 PM

Sweet, good news!!! Thx for the heads up

Zardon · May 19, 2003, 08:51 PM

looks like they finally fixed the "SCSI" IDE driver issue at last. time to install !

Zardon · May 19, 2003, 09:02 PM

just install over the top.

I have them installed and im very happy to say that the Nero SCSI driver bs after installing the "optimised IDE driver" that was apparent in all other versions is now fixed. also a marginal increase in performance on my rig from the early tests ive done.

nice work from nvidia.

Vampyromaniac · May 19, 2003, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
I have them installed and im very happy to say that the Nero SCSI driver bs after installing the "optimised IDE driver" that was apparent in all other versions is now fixed.

Are you talking about this problem?
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...threadid=15665

tek · May 19, 2003, 09:25 PM

Well.. should I wait for Asus to release this for my A7N8X or just get these?

Zardon · May 19, 2003, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Vampyromaniac
Are you talking about this problem?
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...threadid=15665

yes.

Zardon · May 19, 2003, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tek
Well.. should I wait for Asus to release this for my A7N8X or just get these?

well I dont think anyone can tell you what to do, but if you are interested in new drivers id certainly give them a whirl. on the other hand if you have sensitive material on your PC and havent backed up and arent having any problems then stick with what you got.

of course I always try new drivers

mike83wvu · May 19, 2003, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Well.. should I wait for Asus to release this for my A7N8X or just get these?

I will try them tonight with a fresh install & post back. Please provide any feedback you have as well.

A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0 Bios 1003 Final
XP2100â€Bâ€ @ 2360 {11.5x205} 1.85 Core 2.8 DDR
Corsair 512mb 3200 6-2-2-2
WD 100gb 8mb cache
Radeon 9700 Pro Omega Cat 3.4
Antec 480 True
Alpha 8045 35c/42c
Thermaltake Case
Aopen 16x dvd
Yamaha 44x Burner
XP Pro

Solid Snake 88 · May 19, 2003, 10:15 PM

I have a question. I recently reformatted my hard drive, and none of my USB devices are working (I have Win XP). I've installed SP1 and the new nForce2 drivers, but still nothing. When installing the nForce2 drivers it tells me "USB 2.0 can be activated by installing Service Pack 1", but it already is installed. My mobo is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.

Any ideas?

Edit: Nevermind, fixed.

tek · May 19, 2003, 10:19 PM

Put in your nforce2 driversCD (that you got with mobo) click the USB2.0 installation thing, it will pop-up a readme, read the readme carefully and follow instructions in it, all you gotta know is how to read

mike83wvu · May 19, 2003, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Any ideas?

Maybe I can help. What does it say under Device Manager under USB controllers? I just updated the USB controller after I installed the Asus 1.16 by hitting update driver & it found the enhanced drivers which are the 2.0"s.

A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0 Bios 1003 Final
XP2100â€Bâ€ @ 2360 {11.5x205} 1.85 Core 2.8 DDR
Corsair 512mb 3200 6-2-2-2
WD 100gb 8mb cache
Radeon 9700 Pro Omega Cat 3.4
Antec 480 True
Alpha 8045 35c/42c
Thermaltake Case
Aopen 16x dvd
Yamaha 44x Burner
XP Pro

Solid Snake 88 · May 19, 2003, 10:31 PM

Thanks everyone. Its working now. However it was no a USB problem, but my own stupidity. Everything was installed right, except for my USB webcam drivers (stupid me).

Thats not the first time I've screwed something up today. I accidently clicked "Windows 2000" instead of XP, and I ended up installing the wrong nForce2 drivers. Then when I realised what I had done, I downloaded DH's Driver Cleaner and erased everything under "nVidia", then installed the right ones.
Not only that, but when I read the USB 2.0 .txt file and followed its directions, I got "The target file is newer than the selected one. Do you want to overwrite?" and I clicked No to all. However now it has Microsoft drivers instead of nVidia drivers.

Should I be ok with all of this? I've seen far too many times how a few bad installations can permenantly screw up Windows, and since I just reformatted on Saturday, I'm feeling a bit scared...

tek · May 19, 2003, 10:45 PM

Bahh. fuck. Just installed these, and it installed 43.51 drivers for my vid card!! what the hell I had FX44.xx drivers installed.. now I gotta uninstall these/install 44.xx ones.. more work for me

mike83wvu · May 19, 2003, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Should I be ok with all of this? I've seen far too many times how a few bad installations can permenantly screw up Windows

If you are concerned just restore system to the point before you screwed up & start over. Now that there are new Nforce Drivers gives you another reason to reformat

megatron · May 19, 2003, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
just install over the top.

I have them installed and im very happy to say that the Nero SCSI driver bs after installing the "optimised IDE driver" that was apparent in all other versions is now fixed. also a marginal increase in performance on my rig from the early tests ive done.

nice work from nvidia.

I confirm that the nVidia driver works with my CD-RW drive. Lite-on 24102b. I already optimised my boot time with bootvis. I'll take a look to see if there is really an improvement in speed here.

Weirdly using the built in XP CD maker I needed to quit a AVI running on WMP to be able to give the go ahead to write files to CD! At least it works, kinda.

megatron · May 20, 2003, 12:14 AM

Using boot vis the fastest time I have got is 27.7 sec to boot windows. This is around 2 sec faster than the old nVidia drivers. Write caching has been greyed out, which is probably something that the nVidia software engineers did. Good stuff.

My speakers however as 99% of the previous installs produce center channel from the left rear channel. I can only get base from selecting 6 channel setup. I use the three analogue outputs and not dolby surround mode( which has only one output for all speakers). This is the only remaining problem nVidia.

Cereal Killer · May 20, 2003, 12:40 AM

These drivers fixed my slow boot-up to Windows! Went from 40+ seconds to 20 seconds. I am happy now!

sethes · May 20, 2003, 12:52 AM

Has anyone who is having the problem with the installer not working figured out a soulution to it?

Solid Snake 88 · May 20, 2003, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mike83wvu
If you are concerned just restore system to the point before you screwed up & start over. Now that there are new Nforce Drivers gives you another reason to reformat

I could use System Restore, but then again it would probably screw up my system beyond repair and I'd have to reformat for the second time in 3 days...

Oh wait, I did use System Restore, it did screw up my system beyond repair, and I did have to reformat for the second time in 3 days.

weeeeeeeeeeee

megatron · May 20, 2003, 02:15 AM

Check your CD-Check games - you may be in for a surprise! It seem nVidia has messed up big time here.

shuki · May 20, 2003, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by megatron
My speakers however as 99% of the previous installs produce center channel from the left rear channel. I can only get base from selecting 6 channel setup. I use the three analogue outputs and not dolby surround mode( which has only one output for all speakers). This is the only remaining problem nVidia.

I had the same (or at least VERY similiar) problem on my nf7-s! For me the fix was pluggin the black speaker wire into the ORANGE out from mobo and the orange speaker wire into the BLACK output from mobo. Give that a whirl...

and can you elaborate on that CD check games thing?? I have not put these on yet....

Gardinen · May 20, 2003, 07:13 AM

Man.....now I have been waiting sooo long time for these new drivers. And they don't even fix ASIO compatibility. This SUX!!!

shuki · May 20, 2003, 07:07 PM

abit nf7-s v1.2 here. I just installed them all and benched my hdd performance. Noticably LOWER using George Breeze's hdd bench util. Used driver rollback on the IDE controller and alls back up to par again.

Bandwidth was down from 119 to 116 but sequential went down from like 39 to 20

still have a noticable "hang" now right after the POST...

using standard IDE on WD 8mb 120Gb hdd btw...

Zardon · May 20, 2003, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shuki
abit nf7-s v1.2 here. I just installed them all and benched my hdd performance. Noticably LOWER using George Breeze's hdd bench util. Used driver rollback on the IDE controller and alls back up to par again.

Bandwidth was down from 119 to 116 but sequential went down from like 39 to 20

still have a noticable "hang" now right after the POST...

using standard IDE on WD 8mb 120Gb hdd btw...

strange you said that shuki, when I benched in pcmark2002, my hard drive performance was down 220 points, ive deinstalled the IDE drivers. seems Nvidia have alot of work to do to match the stock windows drivers for performance.

Vampyromaniac · May 20, 2003, 08:19 PM

same results w/ HDTach, guys?

wonky_ewok · May 20, 2003, 08:49 PM

I've just installed the NV 2.41's. (Mmm, again, but it's probably me). I said yes to the 'SW IDE driver' question, but the performance compared with the previous SW IDE driver is lower according to Sandra2003.

I'd like to check I've not foobed things up. (After doing the 'safe mode' uninstall and saying 'no' to 'found new hardware' messages which came up while still in safe mode, upon reboot I had the 'windows can't boot because system32\..\nvatabus.sys is missing etc.', and had to poke around in recovery console to find it. I knew using dos in the past would come in handy one day

. But what's with not being able to search for files while in recovery console? Or use the left and right arrows to move through your previous command which you've brought up with up-arrow?)

What device manager now shows:
'disk drives' shows up with driver 5.1.2535.0 from Microsoft 01/07/2001
'ide ata/atapi controllers' lists 'nvidia nforce2 SPP/IGP ata controller', using ultra dma 5-ultra 100
in 'system devices' the nvidia nforce2 memory controller appears 5 times, all v 3.3.8.0

are these reasonable for a happy nforce 2 system?

Thanks very much

megatron · May 21, 2003, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by shuki
I had the same (or at least VERY similiar) problem on my nf7-s! For me the fix was pluggin the black speaker wire into the ORANGE out from mobo and the orange speaker wire into the BLACK output from mobo. Give that a whirl...

and can you elaborate on that CD check games thing?? I have not put these on yet....

For me bf1942 didn't work and also GTA: VC which I will safely be using No-CD patches for. A little banter on the subject (scroll down more than halfway down page to relevant part:

http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...0&pagenumber=2

"
Im having a problem with the same game!! that is the game i am talking about is BF1942 hehe .. for some reason , when im using the SW driver it wont read the cd when i try to launch it , but all is well if i manually change the driver back to the standard ( which is simple)
"

Necrosis · May 21, 2003, 01:06 AM

So far everything is good for me.

Solid Snake 88 · May 21, 2003, 04:52 AM

I am getting HUGE pauses during the POST, and right after the opening Windows screen, before the "Welcome" screen. :'(

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Solid Snake 88 GT Radio Presenter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	I have a question. I recently reformatted my hard drive, and none of my USB devices are working (I have Win XP). I've installed SP1 and the new nForce2 drivers, but still nothing. When installing the nForce2 drivers it tells me "USB 2.0 can be activated by installing Service Pack 1", but it already is installed. My mobo is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. Any ideas? Edit: Nevermind, fixed. __________________ "Where'd I put that C4? Uh oh..." Last edited by Solid Snake 88; May 19, 2003 at 10:22 PM.

May 19, 2003, 10:19 PM	#11
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Put in your nforce2 driversCD (that you got with mobo) click the USB2.0 installation thing, it will pop-up a readme, read the readme carefully and follow instructions in it, all you gotta know is how to read __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]

May 19, 2003, 10:31 PM	#13
Solid Snake 88 GT Radio Presenter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	Thanks everyone. Its working now. However it was no a USB problem, but my own stupidity. Everything was installed right, except for my USB webcam drivers (stupid me). Thats not the first time I've screwed something up today. I accidently clicked "Windows 2000" instead of XP, and I ended up installing the wrong nForce2 drivers. Then when I realised what I had done, I downloaded DH's Driver Cleaner and erased everything under "nVidia", then installed the right ones. Not only that, but when I read the USB 2.0 .txt file and followed its directions, I got "The target file is newer than the selected one. Do you want to overwrite?" and I clicked No to all. However now it has Microsoft drivers instead of nVidia drivers. Should I be ok with all of this? I've seen far too many times how a few bad installations can permenantly screw up Windows, and since I just reformatted on Saturday, I'm feeling a bit scared... __________________ "Where'd I put that C4? Uh oh..."

May 19, 2003, 08:34 PM	#2
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Sweet, good news!!! Thx for the heads up

May 19, 2003, 08:51 PM	#3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	looks like they finally fixed the "SCSI" IDE driver issue at last. time to install !

May 19, 2003, 09:02 PM	#4
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	just install over the top. I have them installed and im very happy to say that the Nero SCSI driver bs after installing the "optimised IDE driver" that was apparent in all other versions is now fixed. also a marginal increase in performance on my rig from the early tests ive done. nice work from nvidia.

May 19, 2003, 10:45 PM	#14
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Bahh. fuck. Just installed these, and it installed 43.51 drivers for my vid card!! what the hell I had FX44.xx drivers installed.. now I gotta uninstall these/install 44.xx ones.. more work for me __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]

May 20, 2003, 12:14 AM	#17
megatron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 0	Using boot vis the fastest time I have got is 27.7 sec to boot windows. This is around 2 sec faster than the old nVidia drivers. Write caching has been greyed out, which is probably something that the nVidia software engineers did. Good stuff. My speakers however as 99% of the previous installs produce center channel from the left rear channel. I can only get base from selecting 6 channel setup. I use the three analogue outputs and not dolby surround mode( which has only one output for all speakers). This is the only remaining problem nVidia. __________________ My system specs and 3dmark2001se score Rad8500 bioses, UT2k3, GTA3 pages & more. Also watercooling endeavours.

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sethes DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Has anyone who is having the problem with the installer not working figured out a soulution to it?

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megatron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 0	Check your CD-Check games - you may be in for a surprise! It seem nVidia has messed up big time here. __________________ My system specs and 3dmark2001se score Rad8500 bioses, UT2k3, GTA3 pages & more. Also watercooling endeavours.

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Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	ASIO Man.....now I have been waiting sooo long time for these new drivers. And they don't even fix ASIO compatibility. This SUX!!!

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shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	abit nf7-s v1.2 here. I just installed them all and benched my hdd performance. Noticably LOWER using George Breeze's hdd bench util. Used driver rollback on the IDE controller and alls back up to par again. Bandwidth was down from 119 to 116 but sequential went down from like 39 to 20 still have a noticable "hang" now right after the POST... using standard IDE on WD 8mb 120Gb hdd btw...

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wonky_ewok DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Location: In fear, mostly Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	How to tell if NV SW IDE drivers are installed properly? I've just installed the NV 2.41's. (Mmm, again, but it's probably me). I said yes to the 'SW IDE driver' question, but the performance compared with the previous SW IDE driver is lower according to Sandra2003. I'd like to check I've not foobed things up. (After doing the 'safe mode' uninstall and saying 'no' to 'found new hardware' messages which came up while still in safe mode, upon reboot I had the 'windows can't boot because system32\..\nvatabus.sys is missing etc.', and had to poke around in recovery console to find it. I knew using dos in the past would come in handy one day . But what's with not being able to search for files while in recovery console? Or use the left and right arrows to move through your previous command which you've brought up with up-arrow?) What device manager now shows: 'disk drives' shows up with driver 5.1.2535.0 from Microsoft 01/07/2001 'ide ata/atapi controllers' lists 'nvidia nforce2 SPP/IGP ata controller', using ultra dma 5-ultra 100 in 'system devices' the nvidia nforce2 memory controller appears 5 times, all v 3.3.8.0 are these reasonable for a happy nforce 2 system? Thanks very much

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Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	So far everything is good for me.

May 21, 2003, 04:52 AM	#30
Solid Snake 88 GT Radio Presenter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	I am getting HUGE pauses during the POST, and right after the opening Windows screen, before the "Welcome" screen. :'( __________________ "Where'd I put that C4? Uh oh..."