Nvidia will not support Vista Drivers for Nforce 2 Motherboa

[squall_leonhart69r]

Squall - you mean disabling any HD features (or anything else remotely nice looking) AFTER vista has already disabled it because your card is overclocked, your PSU isn't quite chucking out the required voltage or your memory smells a little off? (Tilt bits or something?)

yes, Tilt bits

I wouldn't worry too much about losing WHQL certification on drivers - because if it's not something that gets "fixed" by 3rd parties, MS will probably give in at some point anyway.

i doubt it, not without angering the Riaa b****.

[Kryt]

MS vs RIAA. MMmm i like the sound of that. With a little luck they murder Apple in the process.

Even if MS don't give in, theres people out there far more talented than them doing nothing but cracking this sort of thing.

Either that, or a mass migration to linux

[mei]

I'm just about to upgrade my system to something with a core duo chip and won't even look at nvidia for eaither mobo or graphics card due to thier attitude of tough if you have older stuff. I have a gforce2GTS still in my wifes machine and they removed it from the drivers a while back but still have the SLOWER GF4MX in thier drivers.

I have a geforce 2GTS, and it still rocks on my older rig...I agree...how hard could it be to put out a simple little piece of code.

My FX5700LE is not supported by nVidia's Vista driver, but there is a way around that, and it may work to get the new drivers working on your GF2GTS. It also does not affect any WHQL driver signings to the best of my knowledge.

I see no reason why it won't work, because all your doing is adding the older card's device ID's to the newer driver.

Here's what to do:

1. Download both the driver compatible with the GF2GTS, and the latest driver.

2. Extract both to different folders.

3. Inside the GF2GTS driver open nv_disp.inf and find [NVIDIA.Mfg.NTx86.6.0]
For the x64 driver the headings may be slightly different but it should still work.

4. Copy everything under that heading (but not the heading name it's self), make sure to not copy any other content/headings

5. open nv_disp.inf in the new driver and find the same heading, and go to the bottom of the list for that heading.

6. enter a blank line, than paste the contents from the other file.

7. save the file and run setup.

Considering this works, and nVidia has always used a unified driver for their video cards, i don't think it's a matter of them 'removing' the code for the older cards, they just removed their device ID's so the driver can not detect the card in the drivers database. This simple modification adds the additional PCI/AGP / Vendor / Device ID's so the drivers can detect the card.

Hope this helps and good luck!
If you have any questions, let me know.

sorry matt, but the moment you save that inf, you change the CRC of the file, and the CRC contained in the .cat file will no longer match it, hence the inf is no longer WHQL certified, meaning that windows will not activate advanced features such as HD videos

You're confusing the signing process of a driver and the WHQL certification.

[squall_leonhart69r]

no mei, the ENTIRE driver, including the inf, needs to be digitally signed

modifcation of any parts of the driver will disable the advanced functionality.

[MiniMax]

modifcation of any parts of the driver will disable the advanced functionality.

And here you thought you had bought a PC - a Personal Computer - when in reality it is Microsoft and Hollywood that owns your PC

[Harshini]

I have A7N8X-E and that Bata driver worked for VISTA Thx Your post was very helpful and stop me from tearing the hair out of my head.

[wariuz]

Has anyone tryed this? http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?show ... 9622&st=20

[drteeth]

Has anyone tryed this? http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?show ... 9622&st=20

Yes, just did it. I had to uninstall the GART driver as it made Vista think the correct (ATi) video driver was not installed.

So far, no noticeable improvement, but it's early days.

[cartel]

What the hell is everyones problem?
nforce2 work awesome with Vista, I dont use any onboard lan or sound or ports, they are all disabled.
Anyone that needs a hand on nforce2 and Vista, PM me.

[DaFanMan]

Maybe this will help someone else....

I have a Gigabyte Ga7n400 pro nforce2 board with soundstorm and have just finished installing vista ultimate.

After the install was completed device manager did not show audio drivers, sm bus, mass storage controller, or the drivers for my Leadted Tv tuner card.

I downloaded the vista compat drivers and app for the leadtek, and decided to use my original gigabyte md driver cd to try and fill in the other holes.... It Worked!!!!

TV, Internet, ect, ect... all working just like they did in Xp, so you might give your old mb cd a shot if nothing else is working driver wise.

Laterz,
dafanman