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AngelfireUk83
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Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: England
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 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: ECS Nforce4-939A & Sata Driver |
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I am just wondering if there is a driver that will maybe boost performance for my SATA HDD I am using the Microsoft IDE drivers but using a Maxtor 250GB 7,200rpm 8MB Cache HDD.
My brother was messing about and installed 1 of them rubbish driver scan things and it was saying my IDE driver is old????
I know not to install the IDE SW driver is that whats its still called from the 6.86 package along with the firewall. I did a google search and some where saying install the driver from a nForce6 board ???? which I find very hard to trust.
So is there a newer better driver for the SATA controller? I am going to be formatting in a few days so ya know just testing really. |
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mydian
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Joined: 25 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: |
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I have always used the SW IDE Driver since driver package 6.66 with my 939 with no issues.. and am currently using the one from the 6.86. However, if you want something newer nvidia has released new drivers just recently which you can download directly from their site, or check out Fernando's excellent remix here:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/actual-winxp-32-64bit-driver-packs-for-nf4-6-chipsets-vt70968.html
I have used his remixes on other computers I have setup and they've worked great. I haven't tried the new official nForce drivers yet though, but thats because I'm a firm believer in don't fix whats not broken but will be trying them or Fernando's version in my next reinstall.
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TwL
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Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
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can forward above suggest testing v9.99.09 compined with v67.80 Network controller(if this doesn't go settle in that's probably cause of HardwareIDs missing which in case I would ask for them to be added even with cost of whql signs or take another choise and use the v65.xx driver from 430 chipset.) or stick with v6.86. In this case the v9.99.09 is good replacement for 6.86 even while 6.86 are incredible good drivers because you will still have NCQ & SMART on x86 system. So it's only gain to stability & performing .
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AngelfireUk83
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Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: England
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| mydian wrote: |
I have always used the SW IDE Driver since driver package 6.66 with my 939 with no issues.. and am currently using the one from the 6.86. However, if you want something newer nvidia has released new drivers just recently which you can download directly from their site, or check out Fernando's excellent remix here:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/actual-winxp-32-64bit-driver-packs-for-nf4-6-chipsets-vt70968.html
I have used his remixes on other computers I have setup and they've worked great. I haven't tried the new official nForce drivers yet though, but thats because I'm a firm believer in don't fix whats not broken but will be trying them or Fernando's version in my next reinstall. |
How come they have released newer drivers for the US Nforce 4 but for UK language they are still the 6.86 packages http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_nf4_win2k_6.86_uk.html
It's the 15.17 for the US http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.17.html
I don't think I can use these as it used to say use drivers with your language, Can I actually test these 15.17 drivers and should I installed the SW IDE driver. |
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Fernando 1
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| AngelfireUk83 wrote: |
| [Can I actually test these 15.17 drivers and should I installed the SW IDE driver. |
Just to clarify:
1. NVIDIA's IDE s/w drivers are the nForce P-ATA drivers and managing NVIDIA's nForce Parallel ATA Controllers. They can only be used with natively IDE connected hdd's or optical drives.
2. You won't find any nForce P-ATA (=IDE s/w) driver within the actual nForce chipset driver packages.
3. It is not a problem at all to use the actual MS IDE drivers (PCIIDE.SYS etc) instead of any available old nForce P-ATA driver. |
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