New nForce 4 drivers released

[Tanclearas]

Well, too early to tell, but NCQ hasn't crashed anything just yet. It used to start causing problems nearly right away. Maybe it's just trying to make me feel comfortable first, while slowly eating away at my data! w00t!

Notes: Uninstall Network Access Manager first if you want to reinstall it from this "nF4 standalone kit".

 

[MeatHead88]

Originally posted by: Tanclearas
Well, too early to tell, but NCQ hasn't crashed anything just yet. It used to start causing problems nearly right away. Maybe it's just trying to make me feel comfortable first, while slowly eating away at my data! w00t!

Notes: Uninstall Network Access Manager first if you want to reinstall it from this "nF4 standalone kit".

This sounds promising. My machine behaves the same way yours did. I'll report in tonight.

Eat some Carnitas for me.

 

[Megatomic]

Know what? I'm gonna try these on my NF3-250Gb. If they work, great! If not, I'm gonna be wiping my system this weekend to install the latest WinXP x64 anyways. I'll report back in case anyone is curious about my results.

MeatHead88, I'll do so. Like Dos Equis? I'll have a few of those as well, I can dedicate one to you if you desire.

 

[bellang]

Megatomic, i'd be interested in your results, about to build an nforce3 system. Cheers!

 

[Tanclearas]

Still okay.

Sandra File System Benchmark came back virtually identical (1MB/s faster drive index) when using NCQ. This pretty much matches the numbers I got when benchmarking the last drivers with NCQ.

Drive Index: 50 MB/s

BufRd: 89 MB/s
SeqRd: 57 MB/s
RndRd: 41 MB/s
BufWr: 87 MB/s
SeqWr: 57 MB/s
RndWr: 37 MB/s
AveAT: 7 ms

 

[davidos]

Tanclearas: what bios are you using?

 

[bellang]

Update on the NCQ stuff, although I posted earlier I'd installed it, but not enabled. Just checked my device settings and its enabled by default.... Someone at nvidia must have some confidence in this version then....

nothing broken as yet!

 

[AlexBmur]

Well I am a little hesitant to install these if they enable NCQ automatically. Last time I enabled NCQ on my Maxtor drive, I couldn't boot into Windows and I had to reformat my entire drive and reinstall everything. So if anyone has a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 drive that isn't their primary drive and would like to test these new drivers out with it than that would be awesome.

Let us know . . . because I know there are a quite a few of us with Maxtor DiamondMax 10 drives.

 

[Tanclearas]

BIOS 1003.

Still OK! (and still waiting for it to go to Hell in a handbasket...)

Been playing games for the last hour or so.

 

[watek]

installed the IDE drivers for my cheap NF2 board...so far so good...detected in device manager

 

[Jeraden]

Are the people with corruption with NCQ enabled only experiencing it with the A8N? I have the MSI nf4 board and my NCQ was enabled by default even before these latest nforce4 drivers and I never had any problem at all with corruption or anything else.

 

[bellang]

I was the same to be honest. Have a gigabyte SLI and had no problems. had turned off due to scare stories!

 

[mofrack]

From what I've heard, a few Nforce3 boards and the A8N SLI are the ones having the NCQ problems. There could be more, I'm not sure.

 

[govern1]

After installing the new drivers, I took the plunge and enabled NCQ on my Maxtor. I installed a game to it and played for an hour, no issues at all. With it enabled before, I never would have been able to do any of that. Maybe these drivers did the trick... (also running the 1004.01 beta)

Shawn

 

[Vedder323]

im sure ill get the gold noob star for this but how do you enable NCQ?

 

[ohnnyj]

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Megatomic]

All right guys, if there is such a thing as karma then I'm about to bork my system. I've got my new remix built based on these new drivers and I'm gonna go offline and install them. I'll be back (I hope).

 

[Jeraden]

Originally posted by: Vedder323
im sure ill get the gold noob star for this but how do you enable NCQ?

Go into your hardware device manager, and under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, pick the controller that your NCQ drive is on. Open up the properties, and there is a checkbox for Enable Command queueing under one of the tabs.

 

[Megatomic]

There is no karma or I'm way positive at this point as these drivers installed just fine. I just added GART drivers from my previous remix and that is all.

 

[Tanclearas]

I suspect these will be merged into the Unified Driver. I think the nForce4 Kit was released as an interim solution for nForce4 owners without WHQL drivers for their systems.

Glad things are working out for you Megatomic. Hopefully nVidia has some official ones for you soon, and no I don't hope they bork your system.

 

[Megatomic]

Thanks man, but for the record I didn't really want anyone's system to be borked.

 

[mofrack]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Thanks man, but for the record I didn't really want anyone's system to be borked.

Didnt really sound like you were joking... but yeah, glad that you didnt really mean it. Otherwise, I woulda dropped some voodoo hex on your ass. MWAHAHAHA.

So hey... you remixed these to work with Nforce3? You go with your bad self!

 

[Megatomic]

I guess some of you guys are too new to the forums to really know me anyways so it's understandable that you'd mistake my comments for genuine animosity. Welcome to you guys, btw.

Oh and mofrack, I've been remixing since the first NF2 boards came out. It's my second favorite computer activity, gaming being the first and beta testing being the third.

 

[dman7]

What if you own the Gigabyte K8nf-9 board which has the Nforce4 4x chipset? What catorgory would that fall into? Is this chipset by Nvidia so obscure that it's going to get neglected?

-Dman

 

[mofrack]

Maybe someone could help me out with this new driver. I removed my Nvidia Display Drivers ONLY, and then tried to install this new release, and the install just chills out while installing the SMbus part endlessly. My specs are in my sig. I tried both the English and International versions and they both do the same thing. I dont get it, the ones from Asus worked fine, but these just dont seem to want to install. Boooooo.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.