EXTRA! EXTRA! nForce 2.42 driver out!

[squidman]

Same es befo, but this time looks like IDE driver was removed. Weird. Just when people did some clean installs 3 days ago...

 

[drewdogg808]

yup..i did a clean install last night.

 

[batmanuel]

The IDE driver was pretty farked so it was removed. It caused quicktime video to stutter a lot on my board as well as a friend at work who also has a A7N8X-D as well. If you installed the 2.41 driver and are having this problem, just go into the hardware manager and change the driver back to either the older MCP2 one or standard IDE controller. Otherwise you are in for some problems.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: batmanuel
The IDE driver was pretty farked so it was removed. It caused quicktime video to stutter a lot on my board as well as a friend at work who also has a A7N8X-D as well. If you installed the 2.41 driver and are having this problem, just go into the hardware manager and change the driver back to either the older MCP2 one or standard IDE controller. Otherwise you are in for some problems.

So, it's just back to default Windows IDE drivers until they can rewrite their IDE drivers? And when will they fix the sound problems that some people are getting? (unless this is specific to the 8RDA+ board, though I kind of doubt it, as it varies according to the driver version used)

 

[batmanuel]

Oh boy, now even the 2.42 drivers are gone. I'm glad I just changed my IDE drivers, because apparently if you try to remove the drivers It can render your system unbootable, according to nvidia. They have instructions for fixing the prob by putting a pixed ide driver on a bootable disk, but I'm pretty farked if this happens to me since I DON'T have a floppy drive in my rig (I instead put that $20 towards a 6-in-1 digital card media reader for my 3.5" bay, something I use a lot more than a floppy drive). I guess I'll just sit tight and hope these 2.41 drivers aren't too hard to live with until the final update is out. What chuckleheads are TESTING these drivers. I know my A7N8X-D isn't quite the same as a NVidia reference board, but you'd figure they'd have at least a few sitting around the lab to try the new drivers on.

The really funny bit is that these drivers were WHQL approved. Wasn't the whole purpose of the WHQL testing to make sure crap like this doesn't happen? I've increasingly gotten the feeling that WHQL certification doesn't mean crap, and this little incident just about cinches it for me.

 

[Yossarian451]

They have removed all the new drivers and have put back the 2.03 drivers. Mine was unbootable for a bit untill I fixed it. Made me mad because I was in the middle of swapping out compnents from my computer to my girlfriends to make sure evrything worked right.