optimized nForce chipset driverpacks for Vista (32/64bit)

[Fernando 1]

No overclocking at all no. This time the bluescreen was irql_less_or_equal instead of just stop but it's the same meaningless crap you always get so I can't say which driver was really at fault, but it looks like it's nforce drivers.
It gets to the green bars while loading windows and then just crashes into bluescreen.
I don't know if safemode would have solved it since I can't get into safemode with the unsigned driver, and I can't remove that driver.
This is really annoying

What kind of unsigned driver do you mean and why don't you use a WHQL signed one, especially with the sensitive 64bit version of Vista/Server 2008?

[SBeaver]

It's for my pci sata controllers with Ali chipset, it is an old driver, I think it was made for xp x64 then Ali was bought up and shut down by nvidia.

[Fernando 1]

It's for my pci sata controllers with Ali chipset, it is an old driver, I think it was made for xp x64 then Ali was bought up and shut down by nvidia.

This driver is much more suspicious for me than any of my repacked nForce IDE drivers.

[Diezelpower]

Ive tried the 9.98 drivers for winxp x64, and they seem to work great.

This is good news - thanks for your post.
Further questions of interest:
1. Which nForce chipset driver package v.9.46 did you use (the official or my "updated" one, the english or the multilingual version)?
2. Did you do a fresh install of XP x64 or did you just update the nForce drivers by running the installer?

I used your multilingualpackage, tried with both upgrading and with a fresh install, slipstreamed with nlite, both methods works great in both xp64 and vista x64.

Only problem is that i got the controller delay problem when rebooting, ive got the nvidia 680i chipset running raid 0 2x maxtor 250gb (Abit in9 x32 Max motherboard).
Is this bad for the harddrives or doesent it matter?

I don't think, that this will be a problem for your hardware.

But do you know what the contoller delay are about? dont have the problem with the 6.99 drivers or any other older driver, and why only Xp?

[Wrath of God]

Thanks for this all you work put into this.

[Fernando 1]

But do you know what the contoller delay are about? dont have the problem with the 6.99 drivers or any other older driver, and why only Xp?

Maybe the controller delay while rebooting has something to do with the AHCI support of the new nForce S-ATA driver NVGTS.SYS.

[Morgan]

Thanks for taking the time to do all this hard work, I will post back when I get the chance to try them out and report my finds.

Thanks again for sharing your work

[formerprof]

Where in the device manager does one pick up the version for the SMBUS driver?

Many thanks.

[Fernando 1]

Where in the device manager does one pick up the version for the SMBUS driver?

They are listed within the section "System Devices" (I didn't find the exact english name).

[loekf]

Where in the device manager does one pick up the version for the SMBUS driver?

Look under Nvidia NForce PCI System Management

I also installed these drivers on my M2N32 SLI Deluxe + Vista 32-bits (up from 15.08, running BIOS 16.03).

So far no problems.