Got an Epox NForce2 board? Nero locking you up? I have THE solution! (really)

[Jeff7]

Has there been any progress made on this? I've got an 8RDA+ and a Liteon 40x12x48 burner; using Nero 5.5.10.15 - it loads fine, but when I start to burn a CD, it gives some message about SCSI write terminated or something like that, and then the system almost completely locks up. I am using the latest nForce2 drivers from nVidia's site. Something I notice - the IDE controller section of the Device Manager would list the PCI IDE controller, but also the Primary and Secondary IDE chains - this'd also let you see what DMA mode your drives were running in. Those two are gone; all I see is the nForce2 IDE controller. It seems that the nForce2's IDE drivers handle things rather differently than standard ones. Or else they're just flawed.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Has there been any progress made on this? I've got an 8RDA+ and a Liteon 40x12x48 burner; using Nero 5.5.10.15 - it loads fine, but when I start to burn a CD, it gives some message about SCSI write terminated or something like that, and then the system almost completely locks up. I am using the latest nForce2 drivers from nVidia's site. Something I notice - the IDE controller section of the Device Manager would list the PCI IDE controller, but also the Primary and Secondary IDE chains - this'd also let you see what DMA mode your drives were running in. Those two are gone; all I see is the nForce2 IDE controller. It seems that the nForce2's IDE drivers handle things rather differently than standard ones. Or else they're just flawed.

It looks like you chose yes during the nForce driver install when it asked to install the NVIDIA SW IDE driver. You can go into the device manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, right click the NForce IDE controller, update drive, then choose the NVIDIA NForce MCP2 IDE Controller and you'll get the primary and secondary IDE channels listed w/ the advanced tab to verify DMA modes, and it will probably fix your NERO issue as well.

Be sure to read through this thread as well for another fix

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: John


It looks like you chose yes during the nForce driver install when it asked to install the NVIDIA SW IDE driver. You can go into the device manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, right click the NForce IDE controller, update drive, then choose the NVIDIA NForce MCP2 IDE Controller and you'll get the primary and secondary IDE channels listed w/ the advanced tab to verify DMA modes, and it will probably fix your NERO issue as well.

Be sure to read through this thread as well for another fix

Used that idea and did this:
Yes, I did use the nVidia SW IDE driver thing when installing the nForce drives. The IDE controller already said "NVIDIA NForce MCP2 IDE Controller," so I changed it to the Standard Dual IDE controller, rebooted - that gave me back the primary and secondary IDE chains; then I did Update drivers for the Standard IDE controller, directed it to the decompressed nForce driver folders, the IDE one specifically (duh) - it used them. Now I seem to have DMA mode on everything, and the burner is working.
Hopefully nVidia will fix their installation routine soon; seems that its registry modifications aren't quite right.
Thanks for the fix idea, John.