nforce2 custom ide drivers by nvidia trouble

[septiroth]

InCD by ahead will not work with NVIDIA advanced IDE drivers, any workarounds?

 

[John]

IIRC you can choose to not install the NVIDIA ide drivers when you are running the nforce setup.

 

[mechBgon]

Two suggestions:

1) download and install the latest update for Nero

2) assuming you're using WindowsXP, reinstall the nVidia 2.03 Unified Driver Package but watch the prompts. When it asks if you want to install the "SW" Performance IDE driver, click No. It will take the clue and install the WHQL IDE driver instead.

These fixed MichaelD's problems with Nero/nForce2/WinXP and hopefully will fix yours.

 

[magomago]

There are nforce2/nero problems? I'm not experiencing any and I've burned countless discs...but I'm using SP3, updated drivers as of january...and the OEM version of Nero (5.5?)

 

[septiroth]

its just with the sw ide drivers....they seem to work better, so i was wondering if I could keep em...guess not

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: magomago
There are nforce2/nero problems? I'm not experiencing any and I've burned countless discs...but I'm using SP3, updated drivers as of january...and the OEM version of Nero (5.5?)

The Win2K UDP from Nvidia does not include IDE drivers. The "SW" drivers are a WinXP only thing...

 

[First]

That's very odd, I've installed Nero on WinXP SP1 A7N8X systems (UDP 2.0) without issue. Is this a known problem?

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
That's very odd, I've installed Nero on WinXP SP1 A7N8X systems (UDP 2.0) without issue. Is this a known problem?

Yes. Have you used the Performance "SW" drivers in the 2.0 UDP? If so, it does something very similar to the original Via Performance IDE drivers and makes all drives in the system appear to be SCSI. Everything except burners work fine in most cases. The burners will work fine for reading CD's, but once you fire up Nero, when it begins to burn, it will quit almost immediately and give you a "SCSI/IDE Command Aborted" message. It's only the non-WHQL performance IDE drivers, not the regular MCP WHQL IDE drivers. This also happens with the newer 2.03 UDP IIRC..

This is how it looks in the Device Manager with each installed...

Performance "SW" Drivers

Normal WHQL IDE Drivers