NForce 3.13 SPP/IGP IDE Driver

[luigi2000]

Trying to burn DVD in Windows 2000 SP4 with known good Nero 5.5.10.42 installation, Pioneer DVR-A04 and Ritek G04 DVD-R media results in dvd driver hang (tight loop). The NForce 3.13 motherboard drivers are installed on an Asus A7N8X-E. No blue screen but Service Manager reports in the event log: Event 7011, "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the service."

On the first IDE channel are two WD 1200JB 120GB hard drives working fine in UDMA-5 (100) mode. The second IDE channel has both Pioneer DVD-RW burner as master and Toshiba DVD-ROM reader as slave currently set to UDMA-2 (33) mode.

I had performed dozens of proper dvd burns with my old A7V motherboard without a problem using the same peripherals.

The above problem exists with the latest A7N8X-E bios version 1008.

I tried a vendor's suggestion of using the DVD burner alone on the IDE channel. I burned four dvd-r discs with the same material. The driver does not hang in a tight loop; however the Nero verify function reports that the transferred data is corrupted. The file compare utility FC shows that the corruption is duplicated exactly on all the burned discs.

I reverted to the default Microsoft Dual Channel IDE drivers easily through the facility of Device Manager. The burns now work! This fixes a nasty problem. If your OS is Windows 2000 then stay away from the NForce SPP/IGP IDE driver contained in the NForce 3.13 motherboard drivers.

NVIDIA released version 3.13 motherboard drivers last November. These drivers are still available on the NVIDIA site. I wonder if anyone has told them what a piece of crap their IDE driver is?

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[luigi2000]

Well doggies! Don'tcha know that the all-in-one Forceware driver that came with my motherboard does not have an IDE driver for Windows 2000.