Can chipset driver make my boot time worse

[athlon64X2]

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The CD that came with my mobo was a version 3.6 nForce driver set. So I built my system with that, and the OS was loading very fast and everything was smooth.

Then I upgraded my drivers from Nvidia website to ver 6.66 and now my boot time went up. Also my HD makes a lot of clatter while XP is loading.

Have SATA drives -- not RAID or anything.

Mobo - CHaintech VNF4 Ultra

 

[bfonnes]

Originally posted by: athlon64X2
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The CD that came with my mobo was a version 3.6 nForce driver set. So I built my system with that, and the OS was loading very fast and everything was smooth.

Then I upgraded my drivers from Nvidia website to ver 6.66 and now my boot time went up. Also my HD makes a lot of clatter while XP is loading.

Have SATA drives -- not RAID or anything.

Mobo - CHaintech VNF4 Ultra

u gotta be joking, c'mon, man. You expect us to believe that?

BFonnes

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: bfonnes
u gotta be joking, c'mon, man. You expect us to believe that?

BFonnes

Yes, we do

As for your problem, I'd recommend just rolling back to an earlier version.

Nvidia's AMD NF4 Archive

 

[Jiggz]

Thre's one way to find out. Roll Back your drivers and see if the original performance comes back. If it comes back, which I seriously doubt, then maybe the drivers are incompatible with your hardware. But if it doesn't come back then something else got installed during your driver upgrade. You might want to either clean slate the system or maybe at least restore your system to a point before the upgrade.