nForce 4 standalone drivers 6.53

[ahurtt]

Anybody had any experience with this latest nForce 4 driver set? Good, bad, ugly?

 

[GadgetBuilder]

I've been watching the nVidia forum closely to try to figure out how well the 6.53 drivers work. So far, the misery level at that forum hasn't changed much -- there are still a huge number of problems concerning the NIC, IDE, and especially the NAM = firewall.

The complaints are peculiar in that users with similar systems experience different problems. In fact, one user's system worked great until the mobo died, he replaced it with an identical mobo, and then he started having problems similar to those reported by others in the nVidia forums. There seem to be a number of very common problems but there doesn't seem to be a predictable relationship such that every system of a particular type has the same problem...

My experience with the nVidia drivers is that simply removing and reloading them changed the symptoms I see, but this seems to be the norm with these drivers - they remain unpredicatable. Presently, my system is stable with drivers from the CD (I haven't installed the IDE drivers from plain fear of what might happen; I tolerate occasional dropout of the NIC because there aren't any real options - I got BSOD's with the 6.39 drivers when accessing the net) and I am monitoring the nVidia forum awaiting a change in the reported misery level. My conclusion so far is that nVidia is working on something other than these drivers despite the noise level in their forums so I expect a long wait (perhaps forever) for reliable drivers for my NF4.

Visit the nVidia mobo forum and see what you think:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=f3...ead353326152f9b12af806c46&showforum=34

 

[sxr7171]

Do not install the IDE drivers or the audio drivers (use the ones specific to the chipset in your board).

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: sxr7171
Do not install the IDE drivers or the audio drivers (use the ones specific to the chipset in your board).

I thought those ide drivers were specific to the chipset on my motherboard since it is an ASUS A8N SLI Dlx which has the nForce 4 SLI chipset. I do not use the onboard audio, I have a SB Audigy 2. I also don't use the nVidia firewall or NAM since I have a hardware firewall / router in place. Anyway, I wish I read these resonses before I went home last night and decided to try the 6.53 drivers in place of my current 6.39 ones. It TOTALLY HORKED my system! It was instant hard drive corruption. I uninstalled 6.39, rebooted, installed 6.53, rebooted and instant system hork. Couldn't get back into windows. Ended up having to reformat / reinstall my Windows partition reverting back to 6.39. While system performance wasn't flawless with those, at least it runs! And this is with no overclock or anything. Everything running as specced. Way to go nVidia!