nForce IDE Drivers?

[DasFox]

I have a Abit KN8 SLI board, which is a nForce4 SLi chip. I thought when using Nvidia chip motherboards you should be using the nForce IDE drivers on these?

Well I have been having some issues, at least I think there are. With a Raptor 150
that I just purchased it will run with the nForce IDE drivers installed, but everytime I run a chkdsk on it I see this:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 28 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 28 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 28 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.

26113625 KB total disk space.
5409448 KB in 10267 files.
2680 KB in 698 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
78745 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
20622752 KB available on disk.

Now that I think about this I have not tried running chkdsk without the Nvidia IDE drivers installed, because get this, I put in another hard drive on this box to test a Maxtor Maxline III 300GB 16mb buffer and when I install the nForce IDE drivers it won't boot up XP and I tried two different versions of the nForce drivers and neither one will boot up, so what is with this?

Could this be the problem, bad controllers, on the motherboard, or nForce IDE drivers are flaky?

I thought if you had a Nvidia chip motherboard you are suppose to use the nForce IDE drivers?

What's the thought here on these nForce IDE drivers?

THANKS

 

[nova2]

I havn't looked into how much of a performance increase you can attain by using the nivida ide drivers, but, I do know that I've seen more people then I'd like that shall I simply say, have experienced undesirable problems with them.

if you really want that performance boost, try them, else, stay away.

I've never installed them for my nForce mobo's.

see also:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/77909774/m/922008017731

 

[DasFox]

What check this out, what someone said:

Hell, Nvidia implicitly discourages you to use it...what does that say about quality (I've never seen an INtel set with a similiar disclaimer).

Hmm yeah WOW look like LOTS of problems going on, HECK I'll leave them alone. Personally I thought having a Nvidia chip mobo meant you NEEDED to use it, like that was the point of having a Nvidia motherboard, oh well learn something new all the time.

 

[BFG10K]

I've never had any problems with them. The same applies to Intel's application accelerator.

 

[Bozo Galora]

I ran acroos a benchmark in 2004 of MS vs Nforce and MS was slightly slower - not enough to worry about

I quit installing any of them a long time ago (NF2), and havent changed my mind since

About 75% CD-DVD probs are nvidia IDE

Its no biigie to uninstall them (including busmaster) and let windows install MS - you can always roll back to nv

BTW: You only should ask question in one thread - not two
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...adid=1795717&STARTPAGE=2&enterthread=y

 

[DasFox]

Well one thing I can't boot this Maxtor with them and then that makes me worried do I REALLY want to use it in my Raptor150, hmm

To IDE or not to IDE that is the QUESTION?

LMAO

 

[cessna152]

I've never had them work for me.

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: cessna152
I've never had them work for me.

Sheesh well I know one thing with that remark, I have no intention of ever messing with them anymore.

DAMM and all this time I thought they where suppose to RULE. ;(

 

[Superoo]

I built my system only 2 weeks ago and the nvidia IDE drivers turned my DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives into system crashing experts. Everything worked fine as long as I didn't attempt to use the drives. Have since re-loaded Windows using the standard MS drivers and now everything is good. You can try to use them but just keep this in mind if you start getting strange behaviour.

 

[cessna152]

Originally posted by: DasFox

Originally posted by: cessna152
I've never had them work for me.

Sheesh well I know one thing with that remark, I have no intention of ever messing with them anymore.

DAMM and all this time I thought they where suppose to RULE. ;(

You can still give it a shot. I know they work for some people. I've just personally never had any luck.