I know this has been mentioned before, but it really needs to be mentioned again. If you have an nVidia based motherboard, and you're installing the nVidia Forceware drivers do yourself a favor, and click no when it asks if you want to install the nVidia IDE drivers.
You'll get fewer "Blue Screens", and fewer drive corruptions. I'm a sissy, and I've just stopped buying nVidia based mobo's after having this problem come up several times. I'm a slow learner, I know. VIA really makes some good chipsets. If you want SLi fine get an nForce 4, but save yourself a lot of trouble, and an almost guaranteed reinstall, and do not install the nVidia IDE drivers.
I'm sure some people will say "I've never had a problem with it", maybe they have, maybe haven't I don't know. I do know that every time I've installed it my hard drive eventually went corrupt. I've had every nForce chipset, except for the nForce 3, since nVidia released the original, and I can tell you that saving the original nForce(I never installed the IDE drivers on that system) every nForce system I've installed the IDE driver on has gone kaput within 6 months. I had ran an nForce 2 board for 2 years without a hitch without the IDE driver. I bought an nForce 4 board and installed the nVidia IDE driver, and that went to s#!t in less than 3 months. I reinstalled Windows and gave that to my brother and didn't install the IDE driver, and it seems to be purring along fine, the jury is still out on that though. I have read on these forums of other people that have had the same problem with these drivers on nForce 4's so I can only assume that I'm not the exception.
Bottom line is your computer is only as valuable as the information that's on it. So if your hard drive goes to s#!t what good is it? Does the 1% potential increase in HD performance outweigh the potential loss of data? Please mods save some AT'ers some time, and headaches and make this sticky.
see also:
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-manno
You'll get fewer "Blue Screens", and fewer drive corruptions. I'm a sissy, and I've just stopped buying nVidia based mobo's after having this problem come up several times. I'm a slow learner, I know. VIA really makes some good chipsets. If you want SLi fine get an nForce 4, but save yourself a lot of trouble, and an almost guaranteed reinstall, and do not install the nVidia IDE drivers.
I'm sure some people will say "I've never had a problem with it", maybe they have, maybe haven't I don't know. I do know that every time I've installed it my hard drive eventually went corrupt. I've had every nForce chipset, except for the nForce 3, since nVidia released the original, and I can tell you that saving the original nForce(I never installed the IDE drivers on that system) every nForce system I've installed the IDE driver on has gone kaput within 6 months. I had ran an nForce 2 board for 2 years without a hitch without the IDE driver. I bought an nForce 4 board and installed the nVidia IDE driver, and that went to s#!t in less than 3 months. I reinstalled Windows and gave that to my brother and didn't install the IDE driver, and it seems to be purring along fine, the jury is still out on that though. I have read on these forums of other people that have had the same problem with these drivers on nForce 4's so I can only assume that I'm not the exception.
Bottom line is your computer is only as valuable as the information that's on it. So if your hard drive goes to s#!t what good is it? Does the 1% potential increase in HD performance outweigh the potential loss of data? Please mods save some AT'ers some time, and headaches and make this sticky.
see also:
Link 1
Link 2
-manno