On my Gigabyte KA-K8NXP-SLI board the IDE driver on these new Nforce4 drivers cause a BSOD when I run Prime95 on my machine. The BSOD specifically mentions nvatabus.sys. This happened with the previous nforce4 standalone drivers as well as with these new ones. However, after I install the 6.31...
UPDATE: I installed the ATA Driver that Gigabyte has here...
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NXP-SLI.htm
Which appears to be older than the current driver that comes with the nforce4 standalone pack nvidia.com has on their site. I have been running prime95...
The driver was "nvatabus.sys" I ran prime95 again and it BSODed again with the same error. I know "nvatabus.sys" is the NVIDIA IDE driver right? Any ideas on what I should do?
Have you flashed the Plextor drive to the new firmware? You can get it here...
http://www.plextor.com/english/support/downloads/firm_716.htm
I seem to recall it fixing a similiar issue that the ASUS A8N-SLI users had with that drive. I decided to go with the IDE version of that drive...
I tried to remove the NVIDIA firewall and after I did when it rebooted just before it got to the windows desktop I got a BSOD and it rebooted. It doing that over and over again (BSOD reboot BSOD reboot) until I stopped it and had to run windows xp pro in safe mode. I then reinstalled those...
I ran the prime95 torture test along with the SiSoft Environment monitor and when I woke up this morning it was on a BSOD screen that said something to the effect that the system was shut down because of a problem and the error was...
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
It said to restart my PC...
I have been running with the DPS module for a week now with no issues.
As for PSU yes you need that PCI-E power connector. My PCP&C 550-SLI came with two of them. If you just have one them on the PSU then yeah you would need to order another one. My EVGA 6800 GT though came with an adapter...
This is the thread I created on guru3D.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=127162
But it doesn't matter where we discuss the K8NXP-SLI. It appears there is more activity with K8NXP-SLI here anyway. I was feeling alone not being able to discuss issues with other users. :-)
How are things running with the k8nxpsli.f7h bios? I am running with F6 which is what came with my mobo when I got it last week.
How stable is this board been for you folks? What nforce4 drivers and what video (forceware) driver do you use?
If you do a search in these forums there are a number of threads about this board. I just put one of these together last week. For the most part it has been working fine. To answer your questions if you need to use the dual power system. I think you can go without it, but I decided to use it...
According to Anandtechs new SLI article, the shipping GA-K8NXP-SLI boards perform a lot worse than the pre-release board they got. Naturally I find this out after I buy one.
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