Question about Nforce2 Unified Drivers

[OCNewbie]

From the nvidia website, they have a newer version of the drivers avail for XP than 2k. Generally I thought drivers for each OS were interchangeable? Does anybody know if the file linked to this page http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10 will work with the latest version (SP4) of 2K?

Edit, also the file names are the same other than the version name, they all have xp2k in them, to suggest they are interchangeable, but I'm not sure about that, don't wanna try installing them and messing something up.

 

[OCNewbie]

Well going for it, all indications seem that it should work with either or, installed em, gonna reboot now..... if you don't hear from me for a while then assume the worst =)

Edit - Well, installed, and rebooted, things seem ok so I guess I won't worry about it =) Some words of reassurance still would be good though =)

 

[Kenazo]

I'm thinking the parts of the driver that are actually newer are for NF3's. The NF2 is a pretty mature platform already, I doubt their is much driver revision occuring for it.

 

[Megatomic]

Kenazo is right for the most part. Any new driver set will work for the NF2 but any optimizations will be for the NF3 and later. I have a remix that I'm probably going to stick with for the rest of my NF7-S R2's life. Here is the mix:

This nForce WinXP driver package remix (4.40c) contains the below components:

Audio driver version 4.35 (WHQL)
Audio utility version 4.35 (WHQL)
WinXP ethernet driver version 3.13 (WHQL)
GART driver version 4.40 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files
Memory controller driver version 4.40 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files
SMBus driver version 4.45 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files
WinXP IDE 2.5 driver version 4.12 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files

Installer version 4.38