What's wrong with Nforce Drivers?

[doppletwo]

I am just wondering whats wring with the nforce2 drivers.


I like them better than the Microsoft drivers, because I can force the drives back into DMA with out uninstalling.

With the Microsoft drivers once you are in PIO you need to unistall and reinstall.

What are the pros for the MS drivers?

What are the Cons for the nVidia drivers?

I can supply more of my system info if it is needed to help me

Thank you in advance.

[doppletwo]

I have waited nearly two weeks for this and it's gotten 36 views.

Can somebody please help me out?

Thank you very much.

[Soopafresh]

I like the Nforce Mobo Drivers. They work well and seem stable.

I think nobody has responded because there really isn't an argument NOT to use them.

[Ripper2860]

I thought you only wanted to hear what was wrong with them and since I felt nothing was wrong with them -- well, I didn't reply.


Nothing's wrong with them as far as I have experienced. Use them on my NForce-based mobo at work and have no problems -- even overclocked!!

[doppletwo]

Well I have seen other threads where people say not to use them.

But they never give any reasons. I am happy with the nVidia's driver for the nForce2.

I have used the Microsoft ones and they work ok unless you get an error that send the your optical drive into PIO mode.

With the nVidia drivers you can force the IDE channel back into any DMA mode available for the optical driver. But with the Microsoft drivers you must unistall and reinstall drivers to swtich out of PIO mode.

Here is one of the threads where someone says that the nForce drivers are a problem

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=253317

[Faustus]

I had a friend who had a weird issue with nForce drivers once. After installing the latest (this was some time ago) his hard drives would fragment REAL FAST.

He had just formatted when this started, so he reformatted and installed the slightyly older driver he had before.

All in all I love my nForce drivers, they are good stuff. I've had more issues from VIA 4in1 personally.

[doppletwo]

Thanks everybody.

I have been managing my fragmentation hardcore lately. I forgot to defrag a monthss ago and had like over 40% fragmention on 220 GB. and the built in windows defragger is crap if you let your drive get that bad

So I am not sure how fast it is fragmenting.

I just run an on the fly defragmenter while shrink is running and I always run shrink because make file and flodrs instead of images. And I need images becuase I only burn with decrypter.

I am going to stick with the drivers I am using.

[Soopafresh]

http://www.dirms.com/

[doppletwo]

Yeah I use buzzsaw while making image files.

I don't even have to use DIRMS now. Buzzsaw gets cuts down on fragments enough that the Microsoft defragmenter actually works enough with only 15% harddrive space free.

Before I started using Buzzsaw. I had to have like 30% or more free to do a complete defrag. The MS defragger would crap out if I had less than 30% and sometimes with more than 30%.

I used DIRMS once and now only have to use Buzzsaw. I would probably use DIRMS, but I am much more comfortable in full GUI than at a text prompt.

Has any one read Pirates of Silicone Valley?

A text prompt actually is a GUI. Before that you used 100's or 1000's of punch cards with no feedback. Load all the punch cards and hope you did miss a period somewhere.

In that book they talk about the guy that invented back space.

Invented freaking backspace!!!1111!!!!11!!!one

Wow.

[zzyzzx]

I suspect that it's the Nvidia drivers that are giving me problems with my new MB. But In my case it's the Windows 98SE drivers and a lack of a Nvidia Windows98SE drivers, says use Microsoft

I am not convinced that there was much testing on my MB with Windows 98SE.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_ide_4.15_win2KXP.html

[Scottie]

I have 2 Nforce 2 Motherbaords I had troubles with the drivers that where on the cd and my sound but after I got the new ones from the web site all was fine.

[zzyzzx]

The ones that came with my Biostar MB blow chunks. Won't even install completely. The ones from Nvidia are much better.

[leftnerve]

This is my first post here - greetings.

I just disabled my nvidia ide drivers and installed the msoft ones because I read (somewhere...) in this forum that it might help the ripping speed of my NEC 3500.

After one test with Nero CD/DVD speed it looks like I have dramatic improvement. I'll do some more testing a provide data.

=leftnerve

[zzyzzx]

This is my first post here - greetings.

I just disabled my nvidia ide drivers and installed the msoft ones because I read (somewhere...) in this forum that it might help the ripping speed of my NEC 3500.

After one test with Nero CD/DVD speed it looks like I have dramatic improvement. I'll do some more testing a provide data.

=leftnerve

What OS are you using and what version of the Nvidia IDE drivers were you using?

[leftnerve]

[quote="zzyzzx"

What OS are you using and what version of the Nvidia IDE drivers were you using?[/quote]


Well, here comes my second post and I'm sad to report that my first post was full of....I guess I was just eager to join the fray.

It turns out that my test rip was on a previously shrunk movie. My second test on the retail Spiderman movie plodded along at 2x.

Now I've gotta keep reading and decide between a DVD Rom drive for ripping or hacked FW.

I'm using Win 2K Pro SP4. I'm not sure what version the nvidia drivers were (whatever came with my NF7-S2G). However, one side effect of installing the Microsoft ones is that my ATI TV Wonder Pro software (MMC) has stopped telling my me drive isn't DMA enabled (when it always was...).