Manually installing Nforce drivers on Abit NF7-S?

[MTDEW]

Ok, time for a nice clean reformat/install/image again.
I'm overdue.

Last time i just downloaded the latest nforce drivers from Nvidia's site and installed them "as is",
letting it go ahead and install the audio drivers even though I have onboard sound disable and i'm using an Audigy2.

Ive never experienced any problems doing it that way, but this time i'd like to install ONLY what i NEED.

Ok, my system is in my sig below.

Heres what folders I get when i extract the nvidia drivers.
AudioDrv
AudioUTL
Display
Ethernet
GART
IDE
Memctl
Nforce IDE 4.12
SMBus

Now im assuming i can just remove the AudioDrv, AudioUTL and DISPLAY folders to keep those from trying to install ....correct?
But i'm not sure about the gart driver.
Install it?

 

[jrenna]

Here is something I saw in Tom's Hardware about GART. It does not apply to nVidia drives specifically, but I think you need to install GART in order for your AGP Video card to work properly.

"AGP and WindowsNT

After describing the hardware-facts of AGP I should not forget to mention that AGP requires a bit of software as well. As you might recall, AGP offers the graphics chip fast access to system memory for several purposes, AGP-texturing is one of them. The operating system has to be aware of that and hand memory resources over to the driver of the graphics card. The GART (graphics address remapping table) is where these memory resources are listed and the GART-driver is the software that takes care of it. Today all graphics card drivers for Windows95 and Windows98 include the GART-driver for platforms with Intel-chipsets, called 'vgartd.vxd'. The other chipset vendors have to supply their own GART-driver with the software that comes with the motherboard. An Athlon-system for example is not able to even recognize its AGP-graphics card unless you've installed this driver, the driver-file called 'amdmp.sys' for the AMD750-chipset or 'viagart.vxd' for VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset."

 

[Megatomic]

Yes, you are correct. Just delete the folders of the drivers you don't want to install. You need the GART driver, it's necessary for AGP to work correctly. The NV GART works just fine with ATI cards, see my sig.

 

[MTDEW]

Thnx alot guys.
The info was a Big help.

Got it all setup right now.

 

[scrubman]

i was wondering about the IDE drivers?? i know last time i was doing this myself they recalled the IDE drivers and told you to use the Microsoft Default drivers... did they get it fixed now? is it better the MS or same or worse?