Nforce2 IDE drivers + CD-RW drive = PROBLEMS!

[QueBert]

I have an Nforce2 MB, I put the MB drivers on. If I install the SW IDE driver my system is noticably quicker. But my CD-RW drive no longer works. I have read up on a lot of different sites but cannot find a definate answer. Most of what I've been told is "don't use SW" but without them my system really lags. I hate to have to give up performance for no good reason, so if I can't find a decent solution for this I'm just going to go with a KT400 MB.

thanks

 

[MDE]

Dropping down to a KT400 board is a bit drastic. There will be new IDE drivers in the future, so just roll back to the Microsoft IDE driver and wait. I'm using the SW driver and haven't had a problem with either the Asus A7N8X Deluxe or Abit NF7-S (Maxtor hard drive and Lite-On DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives).

 

[BlackMountainCow]

((( question: what does SW mean? )))

 

[high]

I had to roll back too on my DFI. It did NOT like the SW (whatever it means) driver

 

[mechBgon]

I'm using the nVidia 3.13 driver package on my A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2 and an employee's A7N8X Deluxe rev. 1.04 with the SW drivers without any issues, burning both data CDs and data DVDs. We're using Win2000 SP4, however, and until the 3.13 UDPs came out, there was no SW option for Win2000, only for WinXP.

The interesting thing is that the first time I installed the 3.13's, I was NOT offered the SW IDE driver as an option, presumably because the system already had 2.45's. When I did a clean installation of Win2000SP4 from CD, then I was given the SW option for the first time.

 :light:
:Q ~ whoa!

I personally am not noticing any system-performance difference at all, but since my HDDs are 15000rpm SCSI... yeah. On the employee's A7N8X Deluxe, I didn't have time to be goofing around trying both options, so I can't tell you much beyond the fact that current 15000rpm SCSI drives are definitely MUCH faster than a Western Digital Special Edition IDE drive, SW driver or not :evil: (excuse me while I gloat... )

SW, I don't know what it means either. Super Wide? Sassy Walk? Striped Weasel?

 

[QueBert]

It's not drastic to me. Using the MS drivers it took me way longer to copy my Norton Ghost image from one partition to the other. There have been a bunch of Nforce driver updates and none of them have helped. I know benchmarking won't give me exact #'s on a speed difference. but I copied the image with the SW drivers and it averaged 1:12 after 10 tries. Removed them so I could use my CD-RW drive. recopied the same image 10 times and it averaged 2:08

and the system is just laggy. I don't have any hope Nvidia will correct this. it's not an issue with most people, but I have talked to enough who have the same problem. I want to throw this MB out the window and get a Kt400 LanParty

 

[screw3d]

Could it be a problem with outdated ASPI layer files? You could try googling for an update in Adaptec's website.