why no IDE drivers?

[JaG-SpoonMaN]

anybody know why nvidia hasent made IDE drivers for the Nforce2 boards for win2K?
beings stuck with the standard duel channel ide drivers in 2K kinda sucks
btw i have a Asus A7N8X dlx

[SavagePaladin]

from what I gather, thats after the next pack. The only reason they hadn't, I gather, is a bug in win2ks IDE setup.

[saturnotaku]

Long as your hard drives are running in Ultra DMA mode, you shouldn't need any sort of IDE drivers at all. As a matter of fact, most people have said the nForce IDE drivers suck. NVIDIA gives you an option not even to install them when you run their motherboard driver setup package.

[SavagePaladin]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
Long as your hard drives are running in Ultra DMA mode, you shouldn't need any sort of IDE drivers at all. As a matter of fact, most people have said the nForce IDE drivers suck. NVIDIA gives you an option not even to install them when you run their motherboard driver setup package.
Apparently the current ones do, but the info I have says the next ones will be fairly different.

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by SavagePaladin
Apparently the current ones do, but the info I have says the next ones will be fairly different.

By different, do you mean that my IDE devices won't be listed as SCSI in device manager?

[SavagePaladin]

That will be after the next pack, I believe.

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11242

[JaG-SpoonMaN]

thanks you guys rule

[SavagePaladin]

you're welcome :)

[SnakeEyes]

I'm glad this topic kept coming up, because it reminded me that I need to check how mine's set up right now. It seems to me that I read somewhere (probably AMDMB.COM) on how to install one of the nVidia IDE drivers but still have the controllers show up as IDE controllers and not as SCSI devices. I think that's what I did last time, but I don't recall for sure.

It's kind of important that I check mine though, because since I replaced my KT333 chipset motherboard with the nForce2, I've noticed that UT2003 now seems to take forever to close down when I exit the game, which I didn't notice before. Of course, I also now have the latest patch for the game installed (2199?), which I didn't before either, and that also could be the source of the problem.

background info: When I click 'exit' from the game menu, it immediately closes the window and returns me to the desktop, but the desktop takes quite a while to completely redraw all the windows elements: tray, start bar, etc., I can't do anything for a while either, as in if I click the start menu or some desktop shortcut, it doesn't respond to the action immediately, and the hard drive is spinning for the whole time. Once the hard drive finishes running, everything's back to normal. Makes me think WinXP's clearing out the swap file, but unless the 2199 UT03 patch causes UT to load tons more stuff into memory than previous versions, that shouldn't be the problem. I HAVE noticed that the length of time I have to wait after leaving the game is directly proportional to how long I've been playing it, so I know there's some interaction the game is causing, just not why yet..

er.. I'm open to tips on this, but that isn't why I posted this response. Sorry if this is a hijacking. :p

[SavagePaladin]

could it involve this?

Mind you I don't know, but...

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11149

[SnakeEyes]

I tried that too. In fact, I just discovered a post on that one Tuesday, so I loaded it then. I haven't noticed too much difference other than that WinXP now boots just a little faster.

[SavagePaladin]

It may just be 2199 then, but I wouldn't know. Sowwy :)