ASUS A8N SLI - nv firewall & Windows XP SP2

[louisrose]

Hi,

I recently built a new rig with the A8N SLI as my base. I'm very pleased with how it's all gone, except for a problem I've encountered when trying to install the nv firewall from the CD shipped with the mobo.

It seems that other Windows XP SP2 users are suffering similar problems, but I am trying to confirm this.

The installation runs through most of the way, and the firewall functions perfectly well, but the tray app (I believe it's called the IAM, or similar) fails to install correctly.

Here are the error messages that popup when installing:
FAILED TO COPY TO C:\PROGR~1\NVIDIA\NETWOR~1\BIN\FW_WATCH.EXE
COULD NOT COPY APP_POPUP.EXE
COULD NOT COPY APPFLTUI.DLL
COULD NOT RUN NTRAYFW.EXE

My questions are:
1) Has anybody encountered this? Can you confirm if it is a SP2 related problem?
2) If you have encountered this, and fixed it, how did you do it?
3) Could somebody with a working version of the tray app please post the four files in question, or email them to me: mail -at- mymindset.co.uk

Cheers,
Louis.

 

[tretneo]

I am running XP SP2 and have the nvidia firewall running with no problems, system tray works fine.

tret

 

[louisrose]

Great. Can I ask did you install SP2 before or after you installed nv firewall?

Sorry to be bothersome, but is there any chance you could dig out the four files mentioned above and post them or email them. It'd be a great help to me.

Cheers,
Louis.

 

[AiponGkooja]

Whenever I install the nvidia firewall + network manager my ethernet ports stop working completely. Haven't tried messing with reinstalling Windows and doing it over. I think I first installed the drivers before getting SP2 for XP Pro, but since then I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers many times as it is the only way to get my ports to work it seems. It may be some other problem altogether, but I have noticed that reinstalling the drivers without the firewall + network manager almost always gets the ports to work again.

[EDIT]: Also, the first couple times trying to install the chipset drivers from the cd, it hung itself after the driver part (some time during the firewall/network manager thing), but it didn't give me any error messages. It would just stop all action and when I ended task my computer wouldn't restart right (had to use case reset instead of start menu reset).

 

[louisrose]

Wow, that is strange. I did have a slight problem with my network ports, but that was down to my own stupidity. I failed to read the manual closely enough and didn't release that on port was nVidia, and the other Marvell.

Once I updated my Marvell driver everything worked swimmingly. (Just did a windows update and it suggested which driver to use).

 

[AiponGkooja]

I installed the drivers too, but it still has a fit when I let it install the nvidia firewall + network manager. Didn't do it with windows update (nothing shows when I do the update now anyway), I just got it from the asus site....*shrug* I don't really NEED the extra firewall I don't think, so whatever. Glad it works for you though.