nForce IDE drivers v10.6.0.16 for Vista/Win7

[RanCorX2]

I tried doing it through device manager like with W7 x64 in-box nForce IDE v10603, that had no cat file either but it installed. I tried signing the driver but it still refused to install.

Can you actually install these or not?

[Fernando 1]

I tried doing it through device manager like with W7 x64 in-box nForce IDE v10603, that had no cat file either but it installed. I tried signing the driver but it still refused to install.

That's really strange.
Are you sure, that you took the 64bit driver version?

[RanCorX2]

downloaded again, it's still not working. There seems to be bits missing from the inf and I reckon the nvstor.sys is corrupt.

[Kuri]

I'm using then on W7 X64 7000, odd i got the same error ""Driver is not intended for this platform" only on my SATA ports, no problem with RAID, got a very good performance from then by the way.

Even with the error, device manager says v10608 for all and they are working well too.

Oh N570SLI AMD here btw.

[magnus]

Seems the drivers missing from build 7057.

[Fernando 1]

Here are some news for Vista/Win7 users:

The actually available Win7 Build 7068 does contain brandnew nForce IDE drivers v10.6.0.14 dated 02/26/2009.
According to the INF file entries these drivers should support all nForce chipsets from NF4 up - contrary to NVIDIA's latest nForce IDE drivers v10.3.0.42 and 10.3.0.46, which are within the 15.23/15.24/15.25/15.26 driverpacks.

Here are the download links:
32bit version: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yimltih0uzz
64bit version: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2ov17yqy1gt

Please post your feedback here!

Have fun!
Fernando

[magnus]

It would seem the windows 7 drivers aren't quite complete.

The support ide and sata but not achi mode.

[Fernando 1]

Maybe good news for NF4 RAID users:

The RC1 version (= build 7100) of Windows 7 does contain updated nForce IDE drivers v10.6.0.15 dated 04/03/2009.

The interesting question will be, if Windows 7 RC1 can now be installed onto all nForce4 AMD/Intel RAID systems.

You will find the download links - as far as available - within the first post of this thread.

Please report here about your experiences with these new drivers.

Regards
Fernando

[nightwing]

A pretty subjective opinion, but these latest drivers seem snappier to me. Running Windows 7 Ultimate, build 7100.

[end0]

Maybe good news for NF4 RAID users:

The RC1 version (= build 7100) of Windows 7 does contain updated nForce IDE drivers v10.6.0.15 dated 04/03/2009.

The interesting question will be, if Windows 7 RC1 can now be installed onto all nForce4 AMD/Intel RAID systems.

You will find the download links - as far as available - within the first post of this thread.

Please report here about your experiences with these new drivers.

Regards
Fernando

Hi Fernando,

After reading your hopefull post about performing a clean install without any additional drivers, I downloaded the Windows 7 X86 RC1 Build7100 ISO and burn't a fresh DVD, then proceeded to boot from the DVD.

However the setup can only see the discs in my RAID Array and I still had to load the SATA_IDE driver v9.98 to partition/format my RAID Array and complete the install.

My setup is as follows:

DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Venus
4 x WD 74GB Raptors in Raid0(32KB Stripe)

Regards,

endo.