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john.gabriel
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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: ABIT AN8 Ultra Windows Vista SATA Drivers? |
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Hello,
First I have to say that I do not use RAID. I just want to use Nforce drivers for my SATA drives instead of the Vista native drives.
I really don't know if I'm doing a dumb question or if I really have any issue here so I will try to explain.
I've just reformated my machine twice in the last 15 days due a Power Suply failure.
Anyway. Now everything seems Ok although I've noticed some little issues related to a Hard Drives slow access.
I have 3 internal SATA II drives (Seagate 320GB and 250 GB and Maxtor 200 GB).
My first thought was to update the SATA Drives using Nforce Drives 15.01 or 15.08 but I've found that I don't have any SATA controler listed in the Device Manager. Not in the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers nor in the Storage Controlers. I only have IDE Channels X 6 and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controler X 3.
Another thing that I've noticed is that under System Devices I have NVidia NForce PCI System Management and NVidia NForce HyperTransport Bridge but BOTH are saying that there is "No drivers are installed for this device".
I tried to delete/uninstall both to see if Vista accepts the NVidia Drivers but didn't work.
When I try to install the NForce 15.01 or 15.08 drivers the only options that shows me is:
NVidia SMBus Driver
NVidia SMU Driver
NVidia Ethernet Controler ( I do not use the onboard Lan controler)
NVidia Media Shield
Should SATA and IDE drivers not appear as an option too?
Anyone have any idea about what can I do to fix this, install the NVidia SATA drivers without reformat my Hard Drive?
Thanks
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JTKWalesUK1981
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| i have the same problem in XP on this board since my last reinstall but all seems to be working fine. |
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Fernando 1
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: Re: ABIT AN8 Ultra Windows Vista SATA Drivers? |
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| john.gabriel wrote: |
When I try to install the NForce 15.01 or 15.08 drivers the only options that shows me is:
NVidia SMBus Driver
NVidia SMU Driver
NVidia Ethernet Controler ( I do not use the onboard Lan controler)
NVidia Media Shield
Should SATA and IDE drivers not appear as an option too? |
You will get the nForce IDE drivers (inclusive the nForce S-ATA one) installed, when you choose the option "NVIDIA MediaShield".
EDIT: I just realised, that you have posted the same at NVIDIA Forums. So you will find an advanced reply here.
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john.gabriel
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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I saw your reply there too. Thanks again.
I've made another question there so I will post it here to, so people can benefit from your answers in both places 
Enabing or Installing Mediashield? Because I already enable it at installation prompt and SATA Drivers option didn't appear.
I know I could go ahead and install MediaShield to see by myself but I'm asking this because I don't want to install anything just for testing purposes.
One last final question. I'm asking all this because I read some previous posts here in this board that NForce drivers are better than the native Vista ones.
Do you agree? Should I install NForce Drivers? If so, which version? 15.01 or 15.08?
I got your nForce_IDE_998_WHQL_for_Vistax86_packed_by_Fernando but I was unable to install because seems that I need to have a previous version installed first.
Thanks a lot for all your answers.
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Fernando 1
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| john.gabriel wrote: |
| Enabing or Installing? Because I already enable it at installation prompt and SATA Drivers option didn't appear. |
Enabling the option and then installing the MediaShield (=nForce IDE) drivers.
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One last final question. I'm asking all this because I read some previous posts here in this board that NForce drivers are better than the native Vista ones.
Do you agree? |
Vista has native MS IDE and nForce S-ATA drivers (v.8.22) in-the-box. The Vista in-box nForce S-ATA driver has a bad performance.
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| Should I install NForce Drivers? |
Yes!
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| If so, which version? 15.01 or 15.08? |
Neither of them. The currently best Vista nForce S-ATA drivers for nForce4 chipsets are v.9.98 and part of the nForce chipset driver package 9.46.
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| I got your nForce_IDE_998_WHQL_for_Vistax86_packed_by_Fernando but I was unable to install because seems that I need to have a previous version installed first. |
No, you don't need to install any previous nForce IDE driver version, because Vista has it already from scratch.
My suggestion:
Do a manually IDE/S-ATA driver update within the Device Manager:
1. Open the section "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers".
2. Update the driver software of all listed devices named "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" (Right-click on it > "Browse my computer ...." > "Let me pick ...." > "have disk" pointing to the SATA_IDE folder of my package). Each time you will see the "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller" as compatible, install it.
If there is any "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", which is not shown as compatible with the "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller", don't update this one (it's for your natively IDE connected optical drives like CD/DVD-ROM).
3. After having successfully updated the driver software of all compatible "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers", you can reboot.
Once Vista is up again, all your S-ATA hdd's will be managed by NVIDIA's nForce S-ATA driver v.9.98 instead of the MS IDE standard pci drivers. |
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john.gabriel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Fernando 1 wrote: |
| john.gabriel wrote: |
| Enabing or Installing? Because I already enable it at installation prompt and SATA Drivers option didn't appear. |
Enabling the option and then installing the MediaShield (=nForce IDE) drivers.
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One last final question. I'm asking all this because I read some previous posts here in this board that NForce drivers are better than the native Vista ones.
Do you agree? |
Vista has native MS IDE and nForce S-ATA drivers (v.8.22) in-the-box. The Vista in-box nForce S-ATA driver has a bad performance.
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| Should I install NForce Drivers? |
Yes!
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| If so, which version? 15.01 or 15.08? |
Neither of them. The currently best Vista nForce S-ATA drivers for nForce4 chipsets are v.9.98 and part of the nForce chipset driver package 9.46.
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| I got your nForce_IDE_998_WHQL_for_Vistax86_packed_by_Fernando but I was unable to install because seems that I need to have a previous version installed first. |
No, you don't need to install any previous nForce IDE driver version, because Vista has it already from scratch.
My suggestion:
Do a manually IDE/S-ATA driver update within the Device Manager:
1. Open the section "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers".
2. Update the driver software of all listed devices named "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" (Right-click on it > "Browse my computer ...." > "Let me pick ...." > "have disk" pointing to the SATA_IDE folder of my package). Each time you will see the "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller" as compatible, install it.
If there is any "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", which is not shown as compatible with the "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller", don't update this one (it's for your natively IDE connected optical drives like CD/DVD-ROM).
3. After having successfully updated the driver software of all compatible "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers", you can reboot.
Once Vista is up again, all your S-ATA hdd's will be managed by NVIDIA's nForce S-ATA driver v.9.98 instead of the MS IDE standard pci drivers. |
Ok. Done that and everything went fine despite the other issues not related to this topic that I've sent you a PM about it in the NVidia Forums.
However that is one last question.
Since I've installed the modded drivers 9.98, S.M.A.R.T is not working anymore. I roll back to the native Vista drivers just for tests purpose and it's working again. Now I've go back to the 9.98 nforce drivers and isn't working again. This is normal?
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Fernando 1
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| john.gabriel wrote: |
However that is one last question.
Since I've installed the modded drivers 9.98, S.M.A.R.T is not working anymore. I roll back to the native Vista drivers just for tests purpose and it's working again. Now I've go back to the 9.98 nforce drivers and isn't working again. This is normal? |
Yes, but I think, that this issue of the currently available flawlessly running Vista nForce S-ATA drivers is not very important.
Future Vista nForce S-ATA drivers probably will fully support S.M.A.R.T. |
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