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MSI K8N Neo4 Plat/X2 4400 finally stable!
Hey all,
I post this more for informational purposes, in case anyone else runs across the same thing. I solved my stability problems by getting rid of the Nvidia IDE SW driver. Couple of months ago, I did a new system build . MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mb Athlon X2 4400+ processor 2 gb Corsair XMS LL ddr ram ( 2ea 1gb) running in dual channel Saphire Radeon X850XT 256 mb PCIe video card 2 ea WD 250 gb Sata hard drives SB Audigy2 ZS soundcard Some of you may recall, I was getting system lockups fairly frequently. I first suspected it might be my power supply, as it was a 20 pin plugged into a 24 pin connector ( however, according to the msi manual, this should be fine). I know it is an Antec True Power, over 500 watt. Several of you responded that it was not likely the power supply. I had all my hardware drivers current. I would not get any errors reported in event viewer. I would be working along, when all of a sudden the system would just lock up, and I would have to power off holding the power switch in for the required 5 seconds or so. Oftentimes, upon booting back up, chkdsk would run. Interestingly, the lockups would usually happen while using OE reading newsgroups, Outlook reading emails, or Firefox or IE viewing webpages. It never did freeze up on me playing games, though I do much more of the previous than the latter. I knew it was not a heat problem, as my cpu and system temps remained pretty low. I had also downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia Nforce mb drivers from Nvidia, with the same result. I had installed the Nvidia IDE SW drivers from the get go, both with the mb driver cd originally, and with the Nvidia Nforce drivers from Nvidia's website. Well, earlier this week, I uninstalled the Nvidia Nforce mb drivers completely. I then used Driver Cleaner Pro to remove any remnants of Nforce drivers. I re-installed the Nforce drivers, except this time, I elected to NOT install the Nvidia IDE SW driver. I had noticed, in one of the Windows XP forums, a couple of folks had reported lockups while browsing the web, that they attributed to this Nvidia IDE SW driver, that went away when they got rid of it, so I thought I would give it a try... Voila, problem appears to be solved! System is now rock solid and stable! Finally!! I am one happy camper! For whatever reason, on my system, that Nvidia IDE SW driver created problems! My system would freeze, almost daily, at least once. I got rid of it, and now, it is happily purring along... Hopefully, this may help someone else that happens to run into the same issue... -- Don Burnette |
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MSI K8N Neo4 Plat/X2 4400 finally stable!
"Don Burnette" wrote in message ... Hey all, I post this more for informational purposes, in case anyone else runs across the same thing. I solved my stability problems by getting rid of the Nvidia IDE SW driver. Couple of months ago, I did a new system build . MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mb Athlon X2 4400+ processor 2 gb Corsair XMS LL ddr ram ( 2ea 1gb) running in dual channel Saphire Radeon X850XT 256 mb PCIe video card 2 ea WD 250 gb Sata hard drives SB Audigy2 ZS soundcard Some of you may recall, I was getting system lockups fairly frequently. I first suspected it might be my power supply, as it was a 20 pin plugged into a 24 pin connector ( however, according to the msi manual, this should be fine). I know it is an Antec True Power, over 500 watt. Several of you responded that it was not likely the power supply. I had all my hardware drivers current. I would not get any errors reported in event viewer. I would be working along, when all of a sudden the system would just lock up, and I would have to power off holding the power switch in for the required 5 seconds or so. Oftentimes, upon booting back up, chkdsk would run. Interestingly, the lockups would usually happen while using OE reading newsgroups, Outlook reading emails, or Firefox or IE viewing webpages. It never did freeze up on me playing games, though I do much more of the previous than the latter. I knew it was not a heat problem, as my cpu and system temps remained pretty low. I had also downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia Nforce mb drivers from Nvidia, with the same result. I had installed the Nvidia IDE SW drivers from the get go, both with the mb driver cd originally, and with the Nvidia Nforce drivers from Nvidia's website. Well, earlier this week, I uninstalled the Nvidia Nforce mb drivers completely. I then used Driver Cleaner Pro to remove any remnants of Nforce drivers. I re-installed the Nforce drivers, except this time, I elected to NOT install the Nvidia IDE SW driver. I had noticed, in one of the Windows XP forums, a couple of folks had reported lockups while browsing the web, that they attributed to this Nvidia IDE SW driver, that went away when they got rid of it, so I thought I would give it a try... Voila, problem appears to be solved! System is now rock solid and stable! Finally!! I am one happy camper! For whatever reason, on my system, that Nvidia IDE SW driver created problems! My system would freeze, almost daily, at least once. I got rid of it, and now, it is happily purring along... Hopefully, this may help someone else that happens to run into the same issue... -- Don Burnette hey man i just wanted to say thank you for posting this , i was also having the same problem with my k8n , i uninstalled the ide driver and it works stable now . thanks again |
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MSI K8N Neo4 Plat/X2 4400 finally stable!
I also had to uninstall my ide driver from my gigabyte board.
-- GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C 2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5 ATI All-in-Wonder 9600XT Moniter-Viewsonic A91f 19in PATA WD 80+120 Gb HD 8mb buffers Pioneer 110D+Liteon 1693S Dual Layer burner Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick Microsoft ergonomic keyboard Thermaltake Midtower with noname 350 Watt PSU Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones 3DMark 05 Free Scores- Overall 1815, Cpu 4535 Max Performance Graphic Settings, 1024X768 Games I'm Playing- Battlezone II, IL-2 Sturmovick Series Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Civ IV "Don Burnette" wrote in message ... Hey all, I post this more for informational purposes, in case anyone else runs across the same thing. I solved my stability problems by getting rid of the Nvidia IDE SW driver. Couple of months ago, I did a new system build . MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mb Athlon X2 4400+ processor 2 gb Corsair XMS LL ddr ram ( 2ea 1gb) running in dual channel Saphire Radeon X850XT 256 mb PCIe video card 2 ea WD 250 gb Sata hard drives SB Audigy2 ZS soundcard Some of you may recall, I was getting system lockups fairly frequently. I first suspected it might be my power supply, as it was a 20 pin plugged into a 24 pin connector ( however, according to the msi manual, this should be fine). I know it is an Antec True Power, over 500 watt. Several of you responded that it was not likely the power supply. I had all my hardware drivers current. I would not get any errors reported in event viewer. I would be working along, when all of a sudden the system would just lock up, and I would have to power off holding the power switch in for the required 5 seconds or so. Oftentimes, upon booting back up, chkdsk would run. Interestingly, the lockups would usually happen while using OE reading newsgroups, Outlook reading emails, or Firefox or IE viewing webpages. It never did freeze up on me playing games, though I do much more of the previous than the latter. I knew it was not a heat problem, as my cpu and system temps remained pretty low. I had also downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia Nforce mb drivers from Nvidia, with the same result. I had installed the Nvidia IDE SW drivers from the get go, both with the mb driver cd originally, and with the Nvidia Nforce drivers from Nvidia's website. Well, earlier this week, I uninstalled the Nvidia Nforce mb drivers completely. I then used Driver Cleaner Pro to remove any remnants of Nforce drivers. I re-installed the Nforce drivers, except this time, I elected to NOT install the Nvidia IDE SW driver. I had noticed, in one of the Windows XP forums, a couple of folks had reported lockups while browsing the web, that they attributed to this Nvidia IDE SW driver, that went away when they got rid of it, so I thought I would give it a try... Voila, problem appears to be solved! System is now rock solid and stable! Finally!! I am one happy camper! For whatever reason, on my system, that Nvidia IDE SW driver created problems! My system would freeze, almost daily, at least once. I got rid of it, and now, it is happily purring along... Hopefully, this may help someone else that happens to run into the same issue... -- Don Burnette |
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