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Don't install nVidia's IDE drivers.

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manno

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I know this has been mentioned before, but it really needs to be mentioned again. If you have an nVidia based motherboard, and you're installing the nVidia Forceware drivers do yourself a favor, and click no when it asks if you want to install the nVidia IDE drivers.

You'll get fewer "Blue Screens", and fewer drive corruptions. I'm a sissy, and I've just stopped buying nVidia based mobo's after having this problem come up several times. I'm a slow learner, I know. VIA really makes some good chipsets. If you want SLi fine get an nForce 4, but save yourself a lot of trouble, and an almost guaranteed reinstall, and do not install the nVidia IDE drivers.

I'm sure some people will say "I've never had a problem with it", maybe they have, maybe haven't I don't know. I do know that every time I've installed it my hard drive eventually went corrupt. I've had every nForce chipset, except for the nForce 3, since nVidia released the original, and I can tell you that saving the original nForce(I never installed the IDE drivers on that system) every nForce system I've installed the IDE driver on has gone kaput within 6 months. I had ran an nForce 2 board for 2 years without a hitch without the IDE driver. I bought an nForce 4 board and installed the nVidia IDE driver, and that went to s#!t in less than 3 months. I reinstalled Windows and gave that to my brother and didn't install the IDE driver, and it seems to be purring along fine, the jury is still out on that though. I have read on these forums of other people that have had the same problem with these drivers on nForce 4's so I can only assume that I'm not the exception.

Bottom line is your computer is only as valuable as the information that's on it. So if your hard drive goes to s#!t what good is it? Does the 1% potential increase in HD performance outweigh the potential loss of data? Please mods save some AT'ers some time, and headaches and make this sticky.

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-manno
 
Never had a problem with both of my nvidia machines and the nvidia IDE drivers

Nforce4 using a sata raid setup
Nforce2 using just a single pata ide drive.

In fact none of my friends who use nforce boards all the time have had any such problems either.

 
I'm too never had a problem with nVidia IDE drivers. Like BTA, I am using a SATA RAID setup with nForce4 Chipset. It's smooth like butter. Sorry about your problems...
 
I have an nforce2 and have SOME version of nvidia's IDE drivers installed. I stopped updating them after one time I installed them and Windows couldn't read my harddrive(after the launch of the nforce3 250), so I rolled back to the ones I had before that worked. They've been fine ever since.
 
VIA really makes some good chipsets. If you want SLi fine get an nForce 4, but save yourself a lot of trouble, and an almost guaranteed reinstall, and do not install the nVidia IDE drivers.
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If only you knew of early VIA Bus Mastering driver headaches.

Windows XP SP1 and SP2 come with stable hardware specific IDE drivers (written by the hardware vendor). The NVIDIA IDE driver, like the VIA IDE driver, generally is not required except to resolve incompatibilities with particular hardware configurations and when you want to setup RAID.
 
nvidia ide driver havent give me any error yet, but it refused to set my wd800jb to its full speed of dma100, and settle for dma 66 instead
 
Originally posted by: Kensai
I've never installed nVidia's IDE drivers because of that. 😛
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me either, i thoght this was fairly common knowledge?

anyway, it seems to be a hit or miss as far as i've seen. doesn't seem worth messing with when windows drivers are just fine.
 
Kinda of a dumb question, but what if you only have IDE opticals, don't you need or have any choice to download the the IDE drivers?
 
Originally posted by: BTA
Never had a problem with both of my nvidia machines and the nvidia IDE drivers

Nforce4 using a sata raid setup
Nforce2 using just a single pata ide drive.

In fact none of my friends who use nforce boards all the time have had any such problems either.
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Yeah, the NF4 drivers are working fine for me too :thumbsup:

 
I've got them installed and I haven't had a single problem. I'm running the system in my signature with BIOS 1006.
 
Originally posted by: fibes
Kinda of a dumb question, but what if you only have IDE opticals, don't you need or have any choice to download the the IDE drivers?
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I have the same question. For some reason my Sony DRU-510a likes to give me blue screen.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I've got them installed and I haven't had a single problem. I'm running the system in my signature with BIOS 1006.
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same here...only on an epox board...no issues whatsoever as of yet related to the ide drivers.
 
Nvidia is really bad with their IDE drivers...my Benq1620 would not work switched to MS IDE

However on my NF3 my sata drives ran dog slow with the MS sata drivers..had to use NF4 sata drivers

No nvidia ide(parallel) for me period...just pure crap..
 
nForce2, here.

I can't rip a CD w/ the nV drivers (Lite-on 812S/832S). Luckily, you can change back to standard with only a single restart. It's also not like the performance of the standard PATA drivers are crap (dunno 'bout NF3/NF4 SATA).

I'll be making a NF4-based PC soon, and it will only use the drivers that are absolutely necessary 🙂.

Still, much better than the stealthy problems of VIA (and now no SATA-II compatibility--not exactly confidence-inspiring).
 
Based on some of the comments about the reliability of the nVidia driver, I decided to switch back to the MS driver. I decided to run a disk benchmarking program and was surprized with the results. I got about 10-20% better overall disk access speeds with the MS driver. Also, for buffered reads, the speed went up about 20-30 MB/s (depending on whether I was using my PATA or SATA drive).
 
Originally posted by: ShadowFlare
Based on some of the comments about the reliability of the nVidia driver, I decided to switch back to the MS driver. I decided to run a disk benchmarking program and was surprized with the results. I got about 10-20% better overall disk access speeds with the MS driver. Also, for buffered reads, the speed went up about 20-30 MB/s (depending on whether I was using my PATA or SATA drive).
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I have found this to be the case also on an EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra I just built.
 
I've been a long time NV chipset user and I've always used their SW IDE drivers. Aside from the widely known problems with the 2.41 UDP, their drivers have worked great for me.

Epox 8RDA+
Abit NF7-S R2
MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR
Soltek K8AN2E-GR
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

So as you can see, I've used many of their chipsets. I've not used NF4 yet, but I will soon. I hope to not have problems like some of you are reporting.
 
I installed the 6.66 version and now my computer can't seem to put the screen in standby mode. The screen just remains blank.. (SATA).

These IDE drivers suck..
 
Originally posted by: funks
I installed the 6.66 version and now my computer can't seem to put the screen in standby mode. The screen just remains blank.. (SATA).

These IDE drivers suck..
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The 6.66 drivers did not work for me either!!!

I could not get NAM to work in addition, I got a bunch of BSODs.

😉
 
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