If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
New nforce drivers for Nforce4 Ultra chipsets - causing BSODs on my board
Dont really know if its general or peculiar to my Chaintech VNF4 board
but it causes intermittent reboots/BSODs usually but not always when Im transfering lots of data between hard disks. This strangely happens after 30 min or 1-2 hours. Sometimes even longer but Ive been reformatting all my HDs and reinstalling WIN XP PRO with SP2 and added a Seagate 160 gig I just got. It started with the addition of the seagate but I think thats a coincidence though it could possibly be over stressing my power supply who knows - 4 hard disks, 2 burners, 800XL on a 400 watt antec. The other different thing I did was start using a new nforce driver released Mar 17 I think or so from their site. Before I used the old ones that came with the board. Ive read other posts on the net where people say theyve had problems with various nvidia drivers and I had some with my 6800 graphics card - minor ones a few months ago. Ive also seen and this has been claimed all along that the IDE drivers for the nforce are flakey on some systems so some say they never use them and when you install the nvidia platform drivers it asks you if you want to install them. Also people with various boards have claimed problems with each new driver release. I cant be sure until I run them for a few days but it hasnt rebooted or had a BSOD so for for over a day with the old drivers included the IDE nvidia drivers. Another thing - I flashed the bios with WIN FLASH to see if that would fix it ( it didnt with the new nvidia drivers) and it was hair raising. Everything went as planned but when I rebooted it seemed dead and kept beeping over and over and over. I spent another hour steaming mad planning to send the board back or get a new bios chip but after clearing the CMOS everything was fine. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Promise ultra 133 TX2 Drivers | Dracir Venostos | AMD x86-64 Processors | 1 | January 1st 05 08:54 AM |
New NForce motherboard drivers, also new Abit NF7 bioses ..... | rms | Ati Videocards | 10 | July 26th 04 02:20 PM |
Please Help | Mary | Ati Videocards | 36 | February 29th 04 07:28 PM |
Nforce drivers / updating | Colin Wilson | Nvidia Videocards | 6 | December 27th 03 06:40 PM |
Nvidia says two ways to install drivers | Dudley Henriques | Nvidia Videocards | 11 | December 8th 03 07:17 PM |