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

[wonkanoby]

3gbs is the bus speed

no 7200 rpm drive gets any were near that

[dhany19]

3gbs is the bus speed

no 7200 rpm drive gets any were near that

So, in 7200 rpm is only theoritical, isn't?
Only remain as fantasy.

Thanks wonkanoby, I get the answer.

[Xitro]

Hello I have an ASUS Crosshair II Formula with a 780a SLI chipset. With Raid-0 running. And I have Windows XP 32bit running.
I've tried the ""NF4-7 Performance Packs" for XP (32/64bit)" drivers, this will give me a blue screen.

My problems:
- Low performance.
- After restarting my raid-0 drives spin completely down very annoying.

What driver pack do you advice me and will fix my problems, I don't mind reinstalling my Windows if I have to.

Thanks alot!

[Fernando 1]

Hello I have an ASUS Crosshair II Formula with a 780a SLI chipset. With Raid-0 running. And I have Windows XP 32bit running.
I've tried the ""NF4-7 Performance Packs" for XP (32/64bit)" drivers, this will give me a blue screen.

How did you install the package?
Before you have rebooted, did you check, if the drivers of all NVIDIA nForce SATA and RAID Controllers and the usually hidden NVIDIA nForce RAID devices (=hdd's of the RAID) have been successfully updated?

My problems:
- Low performance.
- After restarting my raid-0 drives spin completely down very annoying.

Which nForce IDE driver version are you currently running?

What driver pack do you advice me and will fix my problems, I don't mind reinstalling my Windows if I have to.

My advice is take my "NF4-7 Performance Pack", but before you are going to run the installer, you should read carefully the "Attention" part of the first post of this thread.
Alternatively you may try NVIDIA's official nForce driverpack 15.26 (get it here).

[Xitro]

Thanks for you reply!

How I installed it, Device manager > Show hidden devices > Changed all the Sata and Raid Controller drivers works all fine > run the registry file to clear old drivers. Reboot > Blue screen.

And when I just run the installer and the option in the bios really says RAID, it also gives a blue screen.

"Windows found a problem and shut down to prevent damage.
......................................

** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xBACC3524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"

I'm running 10.3.0.42 slipstreamed.

The official nforce drivers on the site of nvidia works but still has the same problems.

So running 10.3.0.46 now.

[Xitro]

I think my Asus Crosshair II Formula is broken. The first LAN port aint working. I keep getting blue screens all of a sudden and my motherboard sometimes stops posting and then I'll have to clear the cmos that ain't working and then I have to remove the complete CPU and build it all back together and then it works again.

Am going to sent this board back after my vacation.

[TwL]

I think my Asus Crosshair II Formula is broken. The first LAN port aint working. I keep getting blue screens all of a sudden and my motherboard sometimes stops posting and then I'll have to clear the cmos that ain't working and then I have to remove the complete CPU and build it all back together and then it works again.

Am going to sent this board back after my vacation.

That sesm like Memory issue. LAN port well try booting to on-board lan see if it DHCP't and doesn't reboot should be fine if not. These boards has multiple issues. You should just check all components one by one and see what's the problematic causing one. Memtest, Linpack, boot on LAN, HD scan on HD Tune and so on.

[Xitro]

I think my Asus Crosshair II Formula is broken. The first LAN port aint working. I keep getting blue screens all of a sudden and my motherboard sometimes stops posting and then I'll have to clear the cmos that ain't working and then I have to remove the complete CPU and build it all back together and then it works again.

Am going to sent this board back after my vacation.

That sesm like Memory issue. LAN port well try booting to on-board lan see if it DHCP't and doesn't reboot should be fine if not. These boards has multiple issues. You should just check all components one by one and see what's the problematic causing one. Memtest, Linpack, boot on LAN, HD scan on HD Tune and so on.

I know the memory works fine it has been in my older pc all the time (also memtested), also my cpu works fine.
With no memory in it and CMOS Reset the whole board doesn't even beep or do anything.

Edit: Boots op again, all I did was turn the PC over. This is now the second time the same thing happened.

Edit2: Completely different RAM in it, installing Windows XP with those drivers blue screen and after that the pc won't boot in any way. Boots again after putting my pc on the side.

Edit3: With the newest Nvidia drivers it works, but it just resets itself during the installation and afterwards sometimes my pc just resets itself and when plugging in a cable the LAN port goes on/off 5 times and then has a connection. Even tried different CPU/MEM doesn't change a bit. Now I'm really sure that this mainboard has issues, sending it back monday.

[Bad Joker]

I have a problem with my ASUS M3N78-EM (nForce 730a/GeForce 8300) board running the "SATAIDE Driver (v9.99.09) customized by Fernando" drivers with an nLited Windows XP Pro SP3 CD.

The drivers are integrated as texmode drivers (as decribed well by Fernando in the WinFuture forum). But the setup does not find the Samsung HDD running in AHCI mode on SATA port 1. The weird thing is, that the install finds the HDD when i'm using the drivers from the current nVidia package (15.26 / 10.3.0.46). So i contacted Fernando regarding this issue and he checked again the driver. Hopefully we will find a solution for this.

My question now is if any other users experienced the same problem with this mainboard? I'm running on BIOS 0604 (current one).

That we will find a quick solution! Cheers.

[Fernando 1]

@ Bad Joker:
Welcome at nForcersHQ Forum and thank you for your report!
This is the first time I got a feedback regarding a SATA AHCI driver issue (not recognizing an nForce 730a chipset) with the nForce IDE drivers v9.99.09.
Until now I don't know the exact reason for your problem, but I found something, which might be responsable:
After having done a deeper look into the files of the original WHQL signed SATA_IDE drivers of NVIDIA's official nForce chipset driverpack 9.64, I detected a wrong entry within the TXTSETUP.OEM file. The file refers to a not existing file named NVGTS.CAT, the correct CAT file name would have been NVATA.CAT.
Since I had just customized the original drivers by adding the missing HardwareID's, both the WHQL and the modded SATA_IDE drivers have resp. had the same mistake.
It seems possible to me, that the SATA_IDE drivers v9.99.09 have not been accepted by the Windows XP Setup because of the wrong TXTSETUP.OEM entry.
I hope, that you are able to give us a clarification after having done tests with the drivers I have sent you.
Thanks for your willingness to do the work for us all.

Regards
Fernando

@ all users of my XP driverpacks:
As a consequence of my findings I have emended the above mentioned wrong entry within the TXTSETUP.OEM file of both affected SATA_IDE driver folders (WHQL and modded), rebundled and updated some XP driverpacks and uploaded them to the hosters.
Now they are up and can be downloaded by you.
Notes:

1. The wrong TXTSETUP.OEM entry was not my mistake. It was NVIDIA's error, when they developed the nForce chipset driverpack 9.53, and Microsoft even gave the WHQL stamp to this SATA_IDE driver.
2. Users, who installed any of my Performance Packs by running the installer or updating drivers manually from within the Device Manager, are/were not affected at all by the wrong TXTSETUP.OEM entry, because the file will only be used while trying to get Windows XP installed onto a SATA hdd, which runs in "AHCI Mode". I don't even know until now, if it was this issue, which caused Bad Joker's problem (see above).

So the start post of this thread has been refreshed again by me today - irrespective of the test results we are exspecting from Bad Joker.

Here is the Changelog:
- enhanced AHCI support of the "Special WHQL Performance Packs" and "NF4-7 Performance Packs"
- updated: NVIDIA HDAudio Driver (new version: 1.00.0.50)

Any feedback is welcome!

Have fun!
Fernando